A Clubman's Notes
The Great Reprimitivization
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Welcome along to the forty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time: Jack London's novella of 1912, The Scarlet Plague. As I mention in my introduction, this one first popped up on our list of potential serializations a year or so back because it was about a sudden new virus that unravels the world. But, of course, Covid as such did not unravel the world: our rulers' reaction to it did, and continues to do so in Michigan, Ontario, France, Germany and elsewhere. Yet The Scarlet Plague isn't about the plague, it's about re-primitivization...
The Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
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Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...
The Thirteenth Hour
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Welcome along to our forty-fifth audio adventure in Tales for Our Time. This one has been requested on and off over the years, and I resisted. But cometh the hour, cometh the dystopian novel...
Smiling Through
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Welcome to Part Two of Mark Steyn's Passing Parade. This week's episode pairs two long and contrasting lives of the twentieth century: first the Royal Family's dear old Queen Mum, and then President Reagan...
They Can Get Inside You
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The final instalment of George Orwell's almost excessively timely tale, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Green Baize and a Head Clamp
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time and a bit of fluffy escapism that has nothing to do with our world, no sirree...
A Beetle Under a Magnifying Glass
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Part Thirty-One of Nineteen Eighty-Four, a too timely tale by George Orwell
The Malleability of Man
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Episode Thirty of our nightly audio adventure, George Orwell's prescient masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Laugh of Triumph
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Part Twenty-Nine of a George Orwell vision of ...well, pretty much the world we're hurtling towards...
Deeper Than Friendship
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Part Twenty-Eight of our latest audio adventure: George Orwell's dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four
The End of External Reality
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Time for Part Twenty-Seven of George Orwell's dystopian classic Nineteen-Eighty-Four. In tonight's episode Winston is still not quite up to speed on how things work when you're strapped down in the Ministry of Love...
A Shapeless Cherry-Colored Mass
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Welcome to Part Twenty-Six of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
"There Is Only One Offence"
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Part Twenty-Five of George Orwell's too timely tale Nineteen Eighty-Four
We Are the Dead
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In Part Twenty-Four of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston and Julia get rather a shock...
The Mutability of the Past
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Part Twenty-Three of George Orwell's classic novel of a world in which the citizenry are under 24/7 surveillance. Imagine that...
Essential Structure and Irreconcilable Aims
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Part Twenty-Two of our current Tale for Our Time - my too timely serialization of George Orwell's classic Nineteen Eighty-Four...
Neutralized by Doublethink
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Part Twenty-One of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Vague Frontiers
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Episode Twenty of the dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four
Eternal Allies, Eternal Enemies
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Part Nineteen of Mark's audio adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Extending the Area of Sanity
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Part Eighteen of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Tea and Sympathy
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Part Seventeen of George Orwell's dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four
#MeToo-Minute Hate
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Welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure, Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell's portrait of a land of 24/7 surveillance-state thought-control. So a bit of pure escapism that's nothing to do with our world...
The Dreams They Stirred
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Part Fifteen of George Orwell's visionary novel of the 24/7 surveillance state and a cowed and compliant citizenry terrified lest they be accused of thoughtcrime...
The Pornosec Rewrite Squad
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We continue our voyage through the 24/7 surveillance state in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In tonight's episode, Winston Smith learns a little more about his new love...
The Death of Art
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Here's the thirteenth episode of Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's tale of life in a 24/7 surveillance state
Hate Week Highlights
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Episode Twelve of Mark's serialization of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Oranges and Lemons
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Part Eleven of Mark's serialization of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hatless Among the Proles
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Part Ten of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Evidence of Your Eyes
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Part Nine of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's nothing like anything happening today, so need to worry about it...
Anything That Matters
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Episode Eight of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Age of Facecrime
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Part Seven of Nineteen Eighty-Four, a tale that is almost too timely
The Culling of Words
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Part Six of our latest audio entertainment - a bit of escapism all about a society where the citizen is observed twenty-four hours a day for signs of thoughtcrime. So nothing to do with our world then...
Damnatio memoriae
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Part Five of George Orwell's classic portrait of a society obsessed by thoughtcrime and wrongthink - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Reality Control
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Part Four of George Orwell's ever timelier tale of the panopticon state: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Will the Kids Rat You Out?
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Part Three of George Orwell's ever more timely tale Nineteen Eighty-Four
The All-Purpose Enemy
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Welcome to Part Two of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time
The Right on the Ropes?
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An hour of Mark's answers to questions on the end of the Trump presidency - and what awaits...
A Tree for Our Times
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We've been spending this December in and around New York, both with P G Wodehouse's Psmith, Journalist and with our brace of Damon Runyon capers. And in a certain sense this latest of our Yuletide yarns is also rooted in the Big Apple...
A Zone Five Christmas
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Welcome to the second episode of our bonus holiday Tale for Our Time - my own short story The Little Christmas Tree
Tree's Company
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Welcome to Christmas Eve, and to the concluding episode of The Little Christmas Tree
A Touch of Grippe
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For 2020's Yuletide yarns we're starting in the Broadway demi-monde of Damon Runyon...
Happy New Year!
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Mark returns to the Golden EIB Microphone for a final three hours of 2020 substitute-host-level Excellence in Broadcasting
The True Holiday Spirit
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It's time for our second Christmas story by Damon Runyon - a little bit of escapism from mid-Twentieth Century New York...
Nonplussed at Christmas
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In tonight's concluding episode of our first Damon Runyon Christmas Tale for Our Time, our three wise guys are in pursuit of some stashed loot and following a star in the sky...
Down Under Opposite Land
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Obviously foreign countries are the easiest to write about: "Through the haze, I could see camel caravans crossing the Niger river," etc. That's Joseph C. Wilson IV's famous New York Times editorial about whether or not Saddam was trying to acquire uranium from Niger--a bad travelogue that nevertheless catapulted him to the world's longest 15 minutes of fame. But countries that are apparently just like your own are much harder to get into the real rhythm of. On the face of it, Australia is much like Canada: the streets have the same names (Wellington, Grosvenor, and so on), and there's usually a statue of Queen Victoria and/or a bunch of buildings bearing her moniker. Canada and Australia are, as we used to say, the two senior ...
An Englishman in New York
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We've received a deluge of emails asking Mark, for our next Tale for Our Time, to eschew anything dark and dystopian and instead give us something cheery and escapist...
Big Mo Comes to the Mountain
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Welcome to the final installment of P G Wodehouse's adventure into media and mobsters in pre-Great War New York, Psmith, Journalist...
Ptarmigan and Palmist
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Psmith, Journalist, a bit of post-election almost-escapism from P G Wodehouse...
The Battle of White Plains
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Part Seventeen of Psmith, Journalist, a bit of post-Election Day escapism by P G Wodehouse
"I Dare Not Hope to E'er Be Thine"
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Episode Sixteen of Psmith, Journalist - P G Wodehouse's odd blend of Wodehousian whimsy and social conscience
Latin in Manhattan
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Welcome to Part Fifteen of a rather unusual P G Wodehouse caper, in which an upper-class English chappie takes on the slum landlords of the New York tenements...
An Alderman's Ambition
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The thirteenth episode of Psmith, Journalist, P G Wodehouse's tale of an Old Etonian who finds himself among two of the seamier underbellies of New York - gangland and the media...
A Rose by Any Other Name Would Sing as Sweet
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We continue our voyage through the murky sewers of a corrupt New York in P G Wodehouse's Psmith, Journalist
A Regular Whoop
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Episode Twelve of Psmith, Journalist by P G Wodehouse
The Ragtime Restaurant
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Part Eleven of Psmith, Journalist, a most unusual blend of Wodehousian whimsy and gritty documentary realism of the mean streets of New York...
A Twist in the Tale
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Part Ten of Psmith, Journalist - a bit of Wodehousian whimsy with a dash of Noo Yawk social realism...
Getting Busy
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Part Nine of Psmith, Journalist, P G Wodehouse's account of a gallant press amidst the graft and corruption of New York a little over a century ago...
Oh, You Kid!
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Episode Eight of P G Wodehouse's account of an Englishman in New York in the years before the Great War: Psmith, Journalist...
Remember Me to Herald Square
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Part Seven of Psmith, Journalist, a rare combination of Wodehousian whimsy with a dash of social conscience...
"Cozy Moments Cannot Be Muzzled!"
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Part Six of our respite from the woes of the world each night: Psmith, Journalist by P G Wodehouse
No Square Deals in the East
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Part Five of our post-election escapism among the lowlifes of New York, as seen by P G Wodehouse - Psmith, Journalist...
Hoppin' Mad at Cozy Moments
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Here we go with Part Four of P G Wodehouse's venture into the worlds of hoodlums and hacks in pre-Great War New York: Psmith, Journalist...
Cozier Than One Might Wish
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Part Three of P G Wodehouse's foray into the gangs of New York: Psmith, Journalist...
A Bat for da Boids
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Welcome to Part Two of Psmith, Journalist by P G Wodehouse, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
A Rainy Night on Lake Geneva
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Welcome to our annual Halloween horror story. Before we get to this year's chiller, thank you for all your kind comments, still incoming, about The Prisoner of Windsor, my contemporary inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda. Gary Alexander writes:
Before starting this latest gem, I want to HIGHLY recommend you all do some 'binge listening' to The Prisoner of Windsor if you haven't started it. I listened to two and said 'He can't keep this up,' but he did. This parody of today's insanity is best piled upon your ear and brain in generous multi-chapter portions per day. It FINALLY makes that stupid emoji symbol "Rolling on the Floor Laughing" make some sort of sense.
Kudos to Mark for writing and delivering this modern masterpiece filled with zingers and comic voices a tonic for this time of total insanity in all other media...
Circumstances in Dreadful Array
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The conclusion of John William Polidori's account of the mysterious Lord Ruthven, The Vampyre...
Feeding Upon a Female
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Welcome to Part Two of The Vampyre. It's the tale from which Count Dracula and his many progeny all derive...
Meet the Voter
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Just ahead of our thirty-ninth audio adventure, thank you for all your kind comments about our thirty-eighth: The Prisoner of Windsor, a summer diversion from yours truly inverting the premise of The Prisoner of Zenda. Nancy Hawkes, a Mark Steyn Clubber from Virginia, writes:
I couldn't keep silent about this tale. Where to begin? The Prisoner of Windsor was amazing...
The People's Choice - er, Person's Choice
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Welcome to the conclusion of our latest Tale for Our Time: first published in 1955, Isaac Asimov's Franchise, a speculation on presidential elections of the early twenty-first century, in "the world's first electronic democracy". In tonight's finale, it's a perfectly normal Election Day in America...
The Last Secret Passageway
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The final installment of our latest Tale for Our Time - Mark's sequel/contemporary inversion to Anthony Hope's Ruritanian runaway hit The Prisoner of Zenda...
The King Keeps His Appointment
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The penultimate episode of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's sequel-cum-contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian runaway hit of 1894
Triggering His Majesty
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Welcome to Part Thirty-One of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian runaway hit of 1894...
A De-Radicalization Hiccup
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For fans of Mark's serialization of The Prisoner of Zenda, welcome to Part Thirty of his sequel and contemporary inversion - that's to say, this time round the Ruritanian has to sub for the Englishman...
Lookalikes and Thinkalikes
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Part Twenty-Nine of Mark's sequel to and contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian runaway hit of 1894, The Prisoner of Zenda...
The Earl and the Girl
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Part Twenty-Eight of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda
The Glorious Dead
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Part Twenty-Seven of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic of 1894, The Prisoner of Zenda
Bit of a Glitch
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Part Twenty-Six of Mark's sequel to and contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic of 1894: In tonight's episode of The Prisoner of Windsor, Rudy gives a blistering performance in the House of Commons, and the furor over Britain's most Islamophobic canine puppet comes to a head...
The Prime Minister Does Not Get Much Sleep
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Part Twenty-Five of Mark's sequel to and contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda
Of Modules and Men
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In tonight's episode of The Prisoner of Windsor, Rudy Elphberg finally gets to give his big speech...
The Farmers Come to Town
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Part Twenty-Three of my sequel to and contemporary inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda
Chuter cum Shooter
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Part Twenty-Two of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's 1894 classic The Prisoner of Zenda
In Residence at Cymbeline's Castle
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Part Twenty-One of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of a Ruritanian classic
Deep Waters
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Episode Twenty of Mark's contemporary inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda
A Basic Chahar-Bagh
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Part Nineteen of Mark's sequel to and contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian bestseller of 1894
The Tilted Teapot
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Episode Eighteen of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's 1894 classic of honor and duty as understood by one Englishman in a very foreign land...
A New Use for a Dinner Table
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Episode Seventeen of The Prisoner of Windsor
Overseers of Orientation Criteria
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Welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure, The Prisoner of Windsor - my contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic of 1894...
Earl Force One
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Part Fifteen of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda
Marmite Soldiers in the Prison Room
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We continue our voyage through the bizarre fantastical kingdom of contemporary Britain in Mark's inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda
Shock and Awe
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Part Thirteen of Mark's contemporary inversion of a Ruritanian classic
The Winter of Our Content
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Part Twelve of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda
Number One, Mr Speaker
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Part Eleven of The Prisoner of Windsor
Happy as a King
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In Part Ten of our contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda, a penniless Ruritanian finds himself invited to a glittering Coronation ball at Windsor Castle...
Invitation to the Ball
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Welcome to Part Nine of our summer diversion The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of the Anthony Hope 19th century classic in which an English gentleman has to fill in for a Ruritanian king at his coronation...
Pride Comes Before a Fall
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Episode Eight of The Prisoner of Windsor
Saving the Day
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It's time for Part Seven of Mark's serialization of The Prisoner of Windsor - our contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda...
The Adventures of an Understudy
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Part Six of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda
A Close Shave
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Part Five of Mark's inversion of Anthony Hope's 19th century Ruritanian classic relocated to 21st century Britain - The Prisoner of Windsor...
A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative
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Part Four of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda
Sport of Kings
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Part Three of Mark's contemporary inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda
The Barista of Hofbau
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Part Two of Mark's summer entertainment The Prisoner of Windsor
Morons on the March
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A timely tale for the Summer of 2020: Mark reads C W Kornbluth's story The Marching Morons, set in a world where everyone is incredibly stupid...
Morons in Space
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The final installment of C M Kornbluth's mordant tale of future "progress" The Marching Morons
The Race Is Not to the Swift
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Part Three of Mark's serialization of The Marching Morons by C M Kornbluth, a tale of a dystopian future that seems to have arrived a lot sooner than the author predicted...
Take It and Stick It!
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Part Two of The Marching Morons by C M Kornbluth, a terrifying glimpse of a society mired in mass stupidity...
Feathered Hats in the Air
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The final installment of G K Chesterton's metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday
The Errant Orb
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of G K Chesterton's metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday
The Riddle
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Welcome to Part Fifteen of The Man Who Was Thursday. Syme and his weekday comrades return from France and, on the balcony of his favorite Leicester Square restaurant, beard Sunday and demand to know the truth...
Thy Hand, Great Anarch!
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We continue our voyage through the anarchism of the years before the Great War in Mark's reading of The Man Who Was Thursday...
The Energy of Attila
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How serious are the anarchists on the streets of our cities today? In the thirteenth episode of G K Chesterton's metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday, a solid citizen of the French Third Republic is forced to confront that very question...
The Moneyed Anarchist
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Episode Twelve of The Man Who Was Thursday
The Clash of Steel
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Welcome to Part Eleven of G K Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.: On the outskirts of Calais an Englishman and a Frenchman prepare to fight a duel...
A Respectable Dynamiter
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Part Ten of G K Chesterton's vivid and enduring thriller The Man Who Was Thursday
Murderous Materialism
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Part Nine of G K Chesterton's very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time - The Man Who Was Thursday, from an earlier age of anarchy: the years before the First World War...
Swaying on the Splash-Board
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Part Seven of Mark's serialization of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton
When Coppers Meet
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Here goes with Part Eight of The Man Who Was Thursday, the classic metaphysical thriller by G K Chesterton
Visions from the Verge
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Part Six of a tale of anarchy from the Edwardian era - The Man Who Was Thursday
Hiding in Plain Sight
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Part Five of my serialization of The Man Who Was Thursday, G K Chesterton's metaphysical thriller of anarchists threatening law and order in the years before the First World War...
Rebelling Against Rebellion
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Part Four of The Man Who Was Thursday, taking us from our anarchic age to the anarchists of a century ago...
Anarchists of Weary Gait
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Part Three of Mark's serialization of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton, a tale of anarchists on Edwardian London streets to divert you from the anarchists on 21st century American streets...
Digging Deeper and Blowing Higher
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Welcome to Part Two of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton, a metaphysical thriller concerning anarchists, policemen, and many other aspects all too familiar in our own time...
Thursday's Father
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Welcome to the thirty-sixth audio adventure in our popular series Tales for Our Time, and, after many requests these last three years, it is at last a tale by G K Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday...
Respirators and Egression Permits
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An encore presentation of Mark's serialization of a tale from a society in which everyone shelters in place - indefinitely
Defective Rhymes and Symphonic Crises
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The final installment of The Machine Stops, E M Forster's preview of a world in which man meekly stays indoors while high-tech gizmos pump cyber-diversions into his room...
The Empty Vomitories
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Part Two of our encore presentation of E M Forster's 1909 guide to how we live in the twenty-first century
Sure, no NBA, no NHL ...but no Bear-Baiting?
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Welcome to the thirty-fifth audio adventure in our popular series Tales for Our Time, and this tale couldn't be timelier...
Happy Ending
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The final installment of Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year: lessons from 1665 for 2020...
Treacly Passages
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Daniel Defoe's 1722 account of life in London 57 years earlier: A Journal of the Plague Year...
Flattening the 1665 Curve
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Part Twenty-Eight of A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: As our account of the Great Plague of London winds toward its finale, the experts begin to detect the flattening of the curve...
Xtreme V-Shape
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Time for tonight's radio news update from the Great Plague of London in 1665...
At a Full Stop
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In A Journal of the Plague Year, their economy (like ours) has tanked...
Walking Putrefied Carcases
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Tonight's episode of A Journal of the Plague Year concerns itself with what our age calls "asymptomatic carriers"...
Breathing Death in Every Place
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Steyn's serialization of Daniel Defoe's vivid journalistic report from 1665 is the perfect guide to 2020...
Enraged and Desperate
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Part Twenty-Three of A Journal of the Plague Year
The Gall from Our Tempers
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In A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, a deadly contagion rages through London in 1665, and the churches stay open - and full...
Demi-Quarantine
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Part Twenty-One of A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe's account of a disease-ridden metropolis in 1665...
The Dead Unnumbered
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Episode Twenty of our nightly radio news updates from 1665, A Journal of the Plague Year
A Stranger Among Us
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Part Nineteen of my serialization of Daniel Defoe's category-smashing journal of the Great Plague of London in 1665...
Remote Acquaintance
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Episode Eighteen of A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe's account of the Great Plague of London
The Boarded River
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Off we go with our vividly journalistic account by Daniel Defoe of the Great Plague of London...
Coach Class
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We continue our voyage through the Great Plague of London...
The Bane and Mischief of the Whole
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Episode Sixteen of A Journal of the Plague Year
Wherry Bury
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In Part Fifteen the waterman gives his newfound friend the lie of the River Thames...
Pilloried but Popular
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Here's the 13th episode of Daniel Defoe's vivid and journalistic Journal of the Plague Year
Parodically Pilloried
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Part Twelve of Daniel Defoe's forensic account of the Great Plague
When the Pest House Is Full...
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Part Ten of Daniel Defoe's vivid and enduring Journal of the Plague Year
Pitch, Brimstone or Gunpowder
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Part Eleven of Steyn's reading of A Journal of the Plague Year. If the social distancing is getting you down, well, not much has changed in 350 years...
Impudent Mocks and Jeers
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Part Nine of Daniel Defoe's very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time - A Journal of the Plague Year from an earlier age of contagion: 1665...
Sallies and Retreat
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Part Eight of a classic chronicle of the Great Plague of London
Sheltering in Place, 1665 Style
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe - the chronicle of a great city in a time of contagion...
Loose Persons and Idle Assemblies
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Part Six of A Journal of the Plague Year, written by Daniel Defoe between his two great novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders...
Quacks and Mountebanks
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Part Five of my serialization of A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe's classic portrait of an earlier age of contagion, the Great Plague of London in 1665...
Keeping Up Your Trade
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Part Four of our Corona-curfew caper of A Journal of the Plague Year
An Ill Time to Be Sick
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Part Three of my serialization of A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Get Out of Town
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Part Two of Daniel Defoe's chronicle of the Great Plague of London
A Rather Exciting Business
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Welcome to the thirty-fourth in our series Tales for Our Time, and it's our third yarn by John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and its sequel Greenmantle...
An Artist in Crime
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In the final installment of John Buchan's thrilling tale The Power-House, Edward Leithen sizes up his opponent...
A Vanished Scar
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of John Buchan's 1913 "shocker" of a fragile civilization and those who prey upon it...
The Safest Place on Earth?
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In Part Eight of The Power-House, an ordinary Englishman is strolling on a summer's day through central London. Except that, amid the jostle of the Cockney throng, all is not as it seems...
How Now, What-Not?
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Power-House by John Buchan - the latest in our series Tales for Our Time, and a tale of globalist machinations in the run-up to the Great War. In tonight's episode, Edward Leithen finds himself at a rum restaurant in Fitzrovia...
'Tached Fine Fellow
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Welcome to Part Six of The Power-House by John Buchan, a "shocker" that paved the way for his breakout bestseller The Thirty-Nine Steps...
The Only Routes for Madmen
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Here's Part Five of my serialization of The Power-House, John Buchan's classic thriller...
Knout So Queer as Folk
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Part Four of The Power-House, John Buchan's tale of civilization menaced by globalists. In tonight's episode, two gentlemen find themselves musing after dinner...
The Man in the Library
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Part Three of my serialization of The Power-House by John Buchan, a pre-war yarn from the twilight of Edwardian London...
Buchan and Bokhara
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Part Two of The Power-House by John Buchan, with its Buchanite theme of a fragile civilization threatened by globalist elites...
Sole Speck on a Ghostly Waste
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A rare video Tale for Our Time as Mark reads Jack London before a live audience
The Pitiable Thing That Was Once a Man
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The conclusion of a wintry Tale for Our Time: first published in 1899, this is Jack London's account of the awesome powers of The White Silence...
A Mock Turtle on the Stuart River
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Mark reads Jack London's tale of A Klondike Christmas
Turkey Stuffed, Sleeves Puffed
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For the first of this year's Yuletide Tales for Our Time, a Christmas visit to Green Gables...
The Clinging Kind That Such Men Fancy
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Welcome to the second of a brace of Klondike Christmas yarns written four days apart in November 1898 by Jack London. In tonight's story, an agglomeration of diverse nationalities is holed up in the Yukon on Christmas Eve...
Home for Christmas
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Welcome to the first part of our final Christmas story by L M Montgomery: a return visit to Green Gables for one of the author's actual sequels, Anne of Windy Poplars...
Some Secret Delight
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Welcome to the concluding episode of our final L M Montgomery Tale for Our Time - an excerpt from Anne of Windy Poplars...
Snowed Up with Horse Out
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It's time for our penultimate Christmas story by L M Montgomery, the product of an unhappy year in Prince Albert...
A One-Room Yule House
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Mark reads the sixth of this season's Yuletide tales by L M Montgomery
Plum Duff
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Mark closes out the year with a different kind of audio entertainment...
On Track for Christmas
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The fourth of this year's Yuletide tales by L M Montgomery
Manners and Mores
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Welcome to the fifth of this festive season's tales by L M Montgomery, The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner - a good lesson in not counting your turkey before it's hatched, or at any rate served...
The Intensity of Childhood
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Welcome to the third of this Yuletide's festive Tales for Our Time, and another seasonal sampling from the oeuvre of L M Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables
The Stockings Hang Empty
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Welcome to the second of our Christmas Tales for Our Time by Lucy Maud Montgomery
As Ye Give, So Shall Ye Receive
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Mark reads one of the most famous of all American short stories, and, in fact, perfectly constructed: written by O Henry in 1905, The Gift of the Magi...
The Vagaries of the Human Mind
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Welcome to the thirtieth radio serial in our popular series Tales for Our Time, a spooky yarn written by Algernon Blackwood in 1910: The Wendigo
Talking Against Darkness
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The final installment of our Halloween Tale for Our Time - published in 1910, Algernon Blackwood's supernatural tale of The Wendigo...
The Whip of Terror
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Welcome to All Hallows' Eve, and to the penultimate episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Algernon Blackwood's 1910 novella of hunting and haunting in the Ontario wilderness...
Incompleteness and Disguise
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Part Three of my Halloween serialization of The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
A Certain Shifting
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Part Two of The Wendigo, our Halloween audio adventure in Tales for Our Time
Incurable Veracity on the River Thames
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Welcome to Mark's audio serialization of Jerome K Jerome's comic classic Three Men in a Boat
Time to Chuck It
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Welcome to the final installment of Jerome K Jerome's comedy classic Three Men in a Boat
Fecund Loins
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome's 1889 medley of cruising and musing...
"The Old, Old Vulgar Tragedy"
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Just ahead of the ante-penultimate episode of our current Three Men in a Boat, I thank you for all your insightful comments on our latest yarn - which have been wide-ranging and fascinating, and in the spirit of Jerome K Jerome himself...
The Perils of Punting
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We continue our voyage up the Thames to Oxford with Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, a saga of mishaps and musings from the cruising craze of the 1880s...
St George and the Flagon
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Here's the 13th episode of Jerome K Jerome's meandering and easily diverted voyage up the Thames with Three Men in a Boat...
Glowing Eyes and Hallow'd Gloom
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Episode Twelve of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome's comic classic of minimal plot and maximum digressions...
Spooning with the King
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Welcome to Part Eleven of Three Men in a Boat. In tonight's installment, our intrepid troupe find themselves at a momentous location...
A Thrill of Coming Stir
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The latest installment of Jerome K Jerome's comic classic of Three Men in a Boat...
Yearning Not for the Picturesque
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Part Nine of Jerome K Jerome's very popular Three Men in a Boat. In tonight's episode our chaps are boating through history on an empty stomach...
Self-Knitting Antimacassars
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Part Eight of Jerome K Jerome's 1889 comic classic of cruising and musing, boating and badinage: Three Men in a Boat
Tongue Tied
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Flirting and Smoking
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Welcome to Part Six of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, a comic classic of messing about on the river that has delighted readers for 130 years...
Lulled into a Musing
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Here comes Part Five of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome's comic classic from the days when the River Thames was repurposed as a grand outing for pleasure cruisers...
Hideous Sloth Alert
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Part Four of my summer serialization of Jerome K Jerome's quirky classic of 1889, Three Men in a Boat
Don't Let the Cheese Board
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Welcome to Part Three of Three Men in a Boat
The Song of the River
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Welcome to Part Two of Three Men in a Boat, and many Mark Steyn Club members are glad that we've finally got around to Jerome K Jerome's whimsical but beloved classic...
The Pig-Headed Marplots
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Welcome to the final installment of our current Tale for Our Time - published in 1903, Erskine Childers' classic The Riddle of the Sands
Rehearsal Call
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Erskine Childers' 1903 novel of sailing and spying, The Riddle of the Sands...
A Stowaway Without a Hold
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Episode Twenty-Nine of my serialization of Erskine Childers's classic tale The Riddle of the Sands. In tonight's episode, Carruthers finds himself turning stowaway...
Dockside Crimps and Beer-House Slatterns
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Welcome to Part Twenty-Eight of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. In tonight's episode, Carruthers makes the mistake of breakfasting in an ill-chosen beer house...
A Seaman with a Baedeker
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Time for Part Twenty-Seven of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers...
A Reluctance to Quit
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Welcome to Part Twenty-Six of an undoubted classic - The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers...
Ghoulish Gusto
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Here comes Part Twenty-Five of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands...
Dinner for Bluffers
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Here we go with Part Twenty-Four of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands...
Just Execration of an Outworn Creed
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Welcome to Part Twenty-Three of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands. Erskine Childers' enduring classic was first published in 1903, and its theme - the complacency of great powers to new threats - is as relevant as ever.
The Wreck of a Theory
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Welcome to Part Twenty-Two of The Riddle of the Sands, a classic story by a sometime English, sometime Irish, sometime British, sometime Anglo-Irish writer, Erskine Childers. In tonight's episode, Carruthers has set foot on the remote barely-island of Memmert to find out what the Kaiser's chaps are up to...
A Mad Music Without Tune or Time
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Welcome to Part Twenty-One of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers' pioneer spy novel set against the long road to the Great War...
The King of Breakfasts
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Welcome to Episode Twenty of our nightly audio adventure, The Riddle of the Sands...
"Now He's a German"
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Part Nineteen of my serialization of Erskine Childers' dramatic mélange of spying and sailing set against the great-power rivalry on the road to the bloodbaths of the Western Front...
Insular Nonsense or Clever Plagiarism?
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Welcome to Episode Eighteen of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers' shipboard adventure rooted in the great-power rivalry of the years leading up to August 1914. In tonight's episode, we meet the young fräulein with whom Davies is smitten...
The Riddle of the Sands, part 27
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To hear Part Twenty-Seven of The Riddle of the Sands, simply click above. You can find earlier episodes here, and previous radio serializations here. To comment on this new audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and don't forget to join us tomorrow for Part Twenty-Eight of The Riddle of the Sands. ...
Under Imperial Escort
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Part Seventeen of a prototype spy thriller by Erskine Childers set in the early 20th century's long leisurely countdown to global war. In tonight's episode, Carruthers and Davies prepare to leave the German mainland - but under the Kaiser's escort...
Tourists Chaffing
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Welcome to Episode Sixteen of The Riddle of the Sands - written by Erskine Childers, and a prescient work in its view of the German threat to British security...
Sand Bars
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Part Fifteen of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
A Boot That Tells No Tales
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The voyage of the Dulcibella continues in The Riddle of the Sands...
Freelance Marauders
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Episode Thirteen of Erskine Childers' insightful story of German plots and British somnolence...
Astir with Crawling White Filaments
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Episode Twelve of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers' prototype spy yarn and influential warning of German plots afoot on an exposed British flank...
The Little Lust-Cutter
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Time for Part Eleven of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
A Peevish Dandy as Insidious Viper
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Welcome to the latest installment of our current Tale for Our Time - Erskine Childers' hugely influential bestselling thriller of The Riddle of the Sands...
Waking Up the Admiralty Slackers
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Welcome to Part Nine of the lone but influential novel by British patriot turned Irish republican Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands. In tonight's episode Davies suggests to Carruthers that the man behind the German plot is not German at all...
Working It Out
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Part Eight of our latest radio serial, The Riddle of the Sands...
A Bad Hand at Duplicity
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - the latest in our series Tales for Our Time.
Ducking the Question
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Welcome to Part Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - a spy story of German machinations in the Frisian Islands that speaks to us still over a century later...
Bullet Foreheads and Large Mouths
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Here comes Part Five of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers' protean spy novel of Anglo-German intrigue a decade before the Great War. In tonight's episode, Carruthers and Davies steer the Dulcibella into port...
Yachting for Rebels
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Part Four of my summer serialization of Erskine Childers' protean spy thriller of 1903 The Riddle of the Sands...
A Want of Creamy Purity
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Part Three of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.
No Dressing for Dinner
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Welcome to Part Two of The Riddle of the Sands, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
Intrinsic Interest and Racy Delivery
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Welcome to the first of our summer season of audio adventures. This is the twenty-eighth of our radio serials, and it's a highly influential story that for many critics is the first modern spy novel...
Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob
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One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...
The Edwardian Internet
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Welcome to our second-birthday Tale for Our Time. E M Forster conjures a brilliant vision - from 110 years ago - of how we live now, anticipating the Internet, Google, Apple, Skype and more...
Defective Rhymes and Symphonic Crises
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Welcome to the final installment of our Steyn Club second-birthday Tale for Our Time - written in 1909 by E M Forster. Thank you so much for all your kind comments about this latest radio serialization. Andrew A from Alberta:
A cautionary tale of the dangers of cyberspace and the Information Age. The Machine serves humanity by facilitating transmission of ideas, but it depends on humans for them. It is humans who create ideas, test them, then discard or improve them based on human-scale judgements informed by feedback from reality. Cut out the human connection to reality, and the closed system runs itself down. This might become my favourite Tale for Our Time yet...
When Unrest is Sedentary
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Welcome to Part Two of our second-birthday Tale for Our Time: E M Forster's 1909 guide to how we will live in the twenty-first century. In tonight's episode, Vashti is unnerved by a rare move away from the cyber-pleasures of the Machine back to the real world...
The Mahdi and the Eloi
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by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, F Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony Hope, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and H G Wells
Mark presents a sampler of tales from the first season of Tales for Our Time...
Now We Are Two
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Today marks the first day of the third year of The Mark Steyn Club...
Announcing... The Second Annual Mark Steyn Club Cruise
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Following last year's sell-out maiden voyage, we decided to make the Mark Steyn Club Cruise an annual event. And so the second Steyn cruise will leave Vancouver on September 4th and sail through Alaska's beautiful Inside Passage to Glacier Bay. I'll be doing double-duty, hosting the cruise, and also hosting live editions of The Mark Steyn Show at sea...
The Stubborn Beast-Flesh
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Welcome to the final installment of our Mark Steyn Club second-birthday Tale for Our Time...
Announcing... The Third Annual Mark Steyn Club Cruise
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Note: The 2020 Mark Steyn Cruise has been postponed. The new dates for the cruise are October 9 to 19, 2021. All other details remain the same. Details on the cruise are available at MarkSteynCruise.com. Following last year's sell-out maiden voyage, we decided to make the Mark Steyn Club Cruise an annual event. Following this year's near instant sell-out cruise to Alaska, we decided to spread our wings and announce next year's third cruise a little early. And so the first ever Steyn Mediterranean cruise will leave Rome on October 5th 2020 and sail aboard Holland America's brand new ms Nieuw Statendam to Cartagena, Gibraltar, Seville, Barcelona, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Florence and Pisa, before before returning to Rome on October 15th. Our ...
The Advancing Monsters
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Here's the pen- ulti- mate part of H G Wells' horrific story of man and beast and the thin dividing line...
Making a Beast of Yourself
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In this latest epi-sode of The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells, Montgomery decides that the best way to keep the Beast Men human is ...booze...
Not Human, Not Animal, But Hellish
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In Part Twelve of The Island of Dr Moreau, there is a breakout from Moreau's House of Pain...
"Not to Suck Your Drink"
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Welcome to Part Eleven of The Island of Dr Moreau. The doctor's race of new men are reverting to beasts at an accelerating rate...
Prognathous and Protuberant
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Part Ten of H G Wells' thrilling tale of The Island of Dr Moreau
The Extreme Limit of Plasticity
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Part Nine of H G Wells' horrific vision of man defying biology, The Island of Dr Moreau...
Some Bestial Taint
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Welcome to Part Eight of H G Wells' horrific exploration of the fine line between man and beast - The Island of Dr Moreau...
The Sayers of the Law
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It's time for Part Seven of our serialization of The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells...
The Peculiar Smell of Carbolic Acid
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Welcome to Part Six of The Island of Dr Moreau. H G Wells' horrific exploration of man's repudiation of biology speaks to us still a century-and-a-quarter on...
On All-Fours Like a Beast
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Part Five of my serialization of The Island of Dr Moreau, H G Wells' tale of a man of science playing God on the fringe of the map...
Shuddering Recoil and Amiable Bending
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In Part Four of my serialization of H G Wells' terrifying adventure The Island of Dr Moreau, Prendick has arrived at Dr Moreau's eponymous island...
Man Overboard
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In Part Three of my serialization of The Island of Dr Moreau, having been rescued by a passing ship, Edward Prendick finds that, unlike the valued cargo of Dr Moreau, he is about to be tossed back in the briny...
A South Sea Menagerie
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Welcome to Part Two of The Island of Dr Moreau, an H G Wells classic on man's boundless ambition...
Thinking Strange Things
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When H G Wells wrote this story in the mid-1890s, vivisection and the moral questions it raised were much in the news. A century on, we remain squeamish about animal experimentation, but are blithely applying Wells' theories on defying biology to ourselves...
"This Will Kill That"
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Mark presents a special Tale for Our Time featuring selections from The Hunchback of Notre Dame - or, to give it Victor Hugo's title in French, Notre-Dame de Paris...
Crowd-Making in Chicago
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Welcome to the second half of our double-bill of science fiction by Rudyard Kipling:
Isn't it almost time that our Planet took some interest in the proceedings of the Aerial Board of Control..?
Kipling Does Sci-Fi
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Welcome to the twenty-third yarn in these Tales for Our Time. We're going to be spending the next few days with a brace of stories featuring the Aerial Board of Control. What's that? Well...
Suppling Visibly
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Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time - in fact, a brace of tales by Rudyard Kipling about the protean world government of the twenty-first century, the Aerial Board of Control...
Pillars of White Fire
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The latest installment of my serialization of Rudyard Kipling's sci-fi stories about a protean world government - the Aerial Board of Control...
A Sky-Scraping Chimney Sweep
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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - a rare venture into sci-fi by Rudyard Kipling...
Anne Adrift
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Mark and Michele Bachmann celebrate Anne of Green Gables live from Prince Edward Island
The Blurry Area in the Middle
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Patrice Wilding of The Citizens' Voice talks to Miller and Steyn about comedy and commentary
I'll Be Holmes for Christmas
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The second of this year's Christmas entertainments is The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. Dr Watson calls on Sherlock Holmes and finds the great man fascinated by an old, worn hat...
Little Women at Christmas
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Welcome to the first of our Christmas entertainments for this year...
Fowl Play
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Part Two of The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle begins with the appearance of a chap wearing a Scotch bonnet - a tam o'shanter - to which he is most ill-suited. Sherlock Holmes is happy to restore the fellow's hat - and supply a replacement Yuletide goose...
Bread and Milk for Christmas Breakfast
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Welcome to the second episode of our seasonal sampling of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...
The Delightful Storybook Fashion
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Welcome to the final installment of our seasonal sampling from a beloved American classic, Little Women...
Damn! Zounds! And Odd's Life!
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In the final episode of Baroness Orczy's unforgettable adventure The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Pas de Calais air is alive with unGallic oaths...
"For God's Sake, Fly!"
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Baroness Orczy's tale of romance and adventure in France's Reign of Terror - The Scarlet Pimpernel. In tonight's installment, what's a devoted wife to do when a chap comes sauntering along the Cap Gris-Nez surrounded by fervent revolutionaries and starts singing "God Save the King"?
Glimmering and Vast
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It's time for Part Twenty-Two of my serialization of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. In tonight's episode, as the action races toward its climax on the Cap Gris-Nez, Marguerite espies what may yet prove a glimmer of hope...
Grandfathered Inn
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In Part Twenty-One of The Scarlet Pimpernel Citoyen Chauvelin sets off in pursuit of the Pimpernel, and in turn Marguerite sets off in pursuit of Chauvelin...
A Jew in Calais
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Welcome to Episode Twenty of our nightly audio adventure, The Scarlet Pimpernel. We're barreling down toward the thrilling finale...
Odd's Fish!
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In Part Nineteen of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in a grotesque, squalid tavern on the outskirts of Calais, Marguerite witnesses her husband, a man posing as an English fop, come face to face with her sworn enemy, a man posing as a French priest...
The Table Is Set...
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Welcome to Episode Eighteen of our nightly audio adventure: The Scarlet Pimpernel, a romantic thriller drenched in the blood of France's Reign of Terror...
Stale Fish and Cellar Odors
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Here we go with the Sunday installment of Baroness Orczy's thrilling romance set against the bloody overthrow of the old order...
When Interference Comes Too Late
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Welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure, The Scarlet Pimpernel - written by Baroness Orczy, and a prescient work in its view of the revolutionary urge to raze all to the ground...
An Exquisite Dandy and a Daring Plotter
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In Part Fifteen of The Scarlet Pimpernel the action is rattling along: They seek him here, they seek him there, but Marguerite is forced to confront the possibility that all this time the Pimpernel may have been far closer to hand than she ever expected...
The Sanctum of a Dandy
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The Reign of Terror continues in The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, a tale of love and duty set against the blood-drenched France of 1792...
Hot Hands and Cold Lips
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Here's the 13th episode of Baroness Orczy's stirring story of an English fop, his French wife, and the terrors of revolution - The Scarlet Pimpernel...
Fancourt Fiction
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Welcome to Episode Twelve of our nightly audio adventure, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orzcy's thrilling tale of revolutionary France and the Reign of Terror...
The Last Minuet
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Here's the eleventh episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Baroness Orczy's classic tale from France's Reign of Terror, The Scarlet Pimpernel. This one is proving especially popular with Mark Steyn Club members...
Everybody Who Was Anybody
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Part Ten of Baroness Orczy's thrilling romance of French fanaticism and an Englishman's duty, The Scarlet Pimpernel...
Boxed In
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Welcome to Part Nine of our latest Tale for Our Time, set in the turmoil of the French Revolution as conjured by Baroness Orczy in The Scarlet Pimpernel...
Waggish Tongues and Frigid Deference
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Welcome to the eighth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Baroness Orczy's classic tale of France during the Reign of Terror, and one Englishman's determination to resist it - The Scarlet Pimpernel...
The Undeniably Living Eyes
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It's time for Part Seven of our serialization of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. The best adventures need the best villains, and in tonight's episode we meet ours - Citizen Chauvelin...
The Blood Tax of Utopia
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Welcome to Part Six of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Baroness Orczy's thrilling adventure from France's Reign of Terror speaks to us still...
Billowy Frills and Tight Striped Breeches
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Part Five of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy's tale of France's Reign of Terror, and timelier than ever...
A Humble Wayside Flower
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Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my serialization of Baroness Orczy's thrilling adventure The Scarlet Pimpernel...
The Death of a Princess
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In Part Three of The Scarlet Pimpernel, refugees from the terror on the Continent flee across the water...
A Bastion of Prejudiced Insularity
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Welcome to Part Two of The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Mark Steyn Club's latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and a classic tale of honor, duty and romance by Baroness Orczy...
The Lust of Vengeance
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Welcome to the eighteenth of our monthly audio adventures
In the Presence of "This Creature"
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Happy Halloween - and welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Franz Kafka's unforgettable novella, Metamorphosis...
Crawling Up the Wall No More
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Franz Kafka's tale of a man in transition - Metamorphosis
Shedding His Human Background
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Here we go with Part Four of my serialization of Franz Kafka's brilliant novella Metamorphosis...
Bread and Milk and Apprehension
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Part Three of my serialization of Metamorphosis, a Kafka classic first published in 1915. Its scurrying protagonist is as compelling as ever...
Parted Lips and a Twitching Shoulder
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Welcome to Part Two of Metamorphosis, The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time and a classic story by a great Jewish writer, Franz Kafka
Meet the Beetle
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Welcome to the seventeenth of our Tales for Our Time - Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
"We've All Had Our Whack"
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From The Mark Steyn Club Cruise sailing down the Eastern Seaboard, welcome to the final episode of John Buchan's prescient thriller set in the hell of the Great War...
A Hanging Before Dusk
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of John Buchan's thriller of German machinations and Islamic revival
On the Tsar's Nightstand
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Welcome to Episode Twenty of our nightly audio adventure, Greenmantle
The Ephod of the Prophet
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Direct from the Mark Steyn Club Cruise at beautiful Prince Edward Island, where the gables are green but the mantles aren't, welcome to Part Nineteen of John Buchan's Great War thriller...
The Minarets of Erzerum
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Welcome to Episode Eighteen of our nightly audio adventure - Greenmantle
The Fields of Nebuchadnezzar
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Time for the Sunday installment of our Tale for Our Time, a John Buchan thriller set on the great enduring fault line between east and west...
A Rattlesnake and a Bird
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Direct from the St Lawrence River on the first night of the inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise, welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure
The Purification of the Wild Wind
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Welcome to Part Fifteen of Greenmantle, and the action is rattling along. As Shauno tweets of last night's episode: "Pretty good this one Mark the whole book is awesome." Indeed...
A Fish on a Sandbank
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Greenmantle was written by John Buchan in 1916, and does not want for the manly virtues. But in tonight's episode Richard Hannay comes face to face with ...a woman!
An Unhealthy City for Strangers
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Here's the 13th episode of our current Tale for Our Time, John Buchan's stirring story of three British subjects and a duodenally-afflicted American racing to prevent an Islamic uprising...
Of the Blood of the Prophet
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Welcome to Episode Twelve of our nightly audio adventure, Greenmantle - written by John Buchan in 1916 and a thrilling tale of international intrigue - and Islam...
An Icy Wind Fanning the Filth
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Here's the eleventh episode of our current Tale for Our Time - John Buchan's classic thriller of Great Power intrigue and Islamic insurrection...
Sitting on the Dock of the Bey
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Welcome to Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time - John Buchan's thriller of Islamic intrigue and Teutonic trouble-making, Greenmantle...
Putting a Spoke in the Juggernaut
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Part Nine of a thriller of international intrigue whose repercussions will echo through the chancelleries of Europe...
To Laugh and Be Merciful
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The eighth episode of our current Greenmantle: John Buchan's classic race across Europe to stop the Germans setting the Muslim world afire...
The Other Side of the German Army
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It's time for Part Seven of our serialization of Greenmantle by John Buchan. But, before we get to tonight's episode, several listeners were startled by this passage...
Summoning the Whole Earth
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Part Six of Greenmantle, a prescient yarn published in 1916 that speaks to us still a century later
Where the Fuel is Driest...
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Part Five of Greenmantle, written in 1916 by John Buchan, and timelier than ever a century on in its view of Islam and the west
The Flint and Steel of Religion
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Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my serialization of John Buchan's classic thriller Greenmantle
Sharp-Eyed Fellows and Lisbon Boulevardiers
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Part Three of John Buchan's thriller about a new Muslim leader emerging out of Turkey
Benevolent Neutrals and Effete Monarchies
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Part Two of John Buchan's thriller about a new Muslim prophet to set the world ablaze
The Parched Grasses Wait the Spark
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Welcome to the new fall season of Tales for Our Time, and John Buchan's classic thriller of great-power intrigue and an Islamic uprising - Greenmantle...
Announcing... The Inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise
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Sail with Steyn and his special guests
Dawn's Early Light, Eighteen Months On
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Steyn previews the very first Mark Steyn Club Cruise with a wide-ranging interview with former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann
A Note to My Readers
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As I mentioned on yesterday's Clubland Q&A, I have to take off for a few weeks to remote parts in order to crack the back of a project that's been on hold for fifteen months because Cary Katz and CRTV were suing me for $10 million. (They lost.) At any rate, the coming weeks will take me somewhat off the grid WiFi-wise, and that can't be helped because it's a very small window of opportunity. Katz and CRTV have re-sued me in multiple jurisdictions, this time for a combined $20 million.
Clubland Open Thread: Wednesday June 27th
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While Mark's away, and by request of members, we're experimenting with an occasional "open thread" forum at SteynOnline. If you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club and there's something on your mind not covered by Mark's columns or audio-video presentations, feel free to raise it here. The whole world can read it, but Club membership is required to write it. So, if you've been toying with signing up, either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, you're more than welcome to sign up and give it your best below. Please remember our usual comment strictures apply - except the one about going off-topic, as in this case the topics are your call. Otherwise, no profanity, no ad hominem attacks, no URL-fests, and don't go crazily ...
Down to a Fine Thing
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Welcome to the concluding episode of our latest Tale for Our Time - and the launch of our second year of audio adventures. We've gone back to the writer we started with - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
The Holmes Front
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Welcome to the second season of our monthly audio adventures, Tales for Our Time...
Year Two Begins
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The first day of The Mark Steyn Club's second year in business
Not Man Enough for Your Wenches?
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Welcome to the final part of our Mark Steyn Club first-birthday Tale for Our Time - written in 1888 by Rudyard Kipling for the Indian Railway Library...
"Happy Day" Is Here Again
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The winners of our Steyn Club first-anniversary competition
Sons of Alexander on a Four-Wheeled Bogy
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Here's the fourth episode of our Mark Steyn Club first-birthday Tale for Our Time - a whimsical account of nation-building in Kafiristan, The Man Who Would Be King...
What was Left of a Man
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Welcome to Part Three of The Man Who Would Be King. Two years have passed since a brace of English adventurers set off to become kings of Kafiristan. Our narrator has not heard a word of them - until one sweltering summer afternoon...
The One Place Two Strong Men Can Sar-a-Whack
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On this Royal Wedding day, welcome to Part Two of Rudyard Kipling's guide to becoming royalty rather than merely marrying into it: The Man Who Would Be King...
A King in Kafiristan
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Welcome to our first-anniversary audio adventure in our popular series Tales for Our Time. This is the fourteenth of our radio serials, and it's especially timely if you're contemplating this weekend's Royal Wedding at St George's Chapel and wondering why you can't marry into royalty. So here's an alternative solution: find a far-flung pinprick on the map and become its king...