It's Mother's Day - in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and various other places, that is. In the British Isles and Nigeria, Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent, which was a few weeks back. Still, around much of the world today, a young lad's heart naturally turns to thoughts of mom, or mum - and so we present our traditional celebration of the golden age of the "mother song". This SteynOnline podcast is based on my book A Song For The Season, personally autographed copies of which, for you or your mother, are exclusively available from the SteynOnline bookstore. It's also out in eBook - for details see below. Many readers have asked whether there's an audio edition available, and the answer is not yet. So, for the moment, ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick McGinnis on Cary Grant and crew in Destination Tokyo...
Mark fields questions on many topics, from the calls for decapitations at George Washington University to the withdrawal of the AstraZeneca "vaccine" from the entire planet...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
A cavalcade of hits with Mark and his guests, including Andy Williams, Bananarama, Paul Simon,, Lulu, Men at Work, Artie Shaw and many more...
Steyn on the state's continued abuse of its vaccine victims...
"The Great British Success Story" comes to court to stick it to the victims...
Mark and chums with a musical special live on stage at Hillsdale College...
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...
Just ahead of Part Twenty-Five of our vernal diversion, The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, a quick thank you for all your kind words on this seventh birthday of The Mark Steyn Club, and especially about Tales for Our Time. We always like to hear what you appreciate and what you don't - and, if you've a particular favourite you think would suit this series, by all means pass it along. Listeners' fascination with Bradshaw's Railway Guide to Great Britain and Ireland rumbles on. Mike Cliffson, a Steyn Clubber in Spain, writes: I can't find on internet which politician (chancellor of the exchequer or PM? it was late fifties or early sixties) that the uniparty intents to control/fine-tune/influence/overtax the UK economy were "like trying ...
Part Twenty-Four of Agatha Christie's second novel - and the first to feature Tommy and Tuppence - set against the turbulent and revolutionary politics of Europe after the Great War...
Part Twenty-Three of a rare Agatha Christie adventure set against the turbulent politics of the time, the early 1920s...
Welcome to Part Twenty-Two of our current Tale for Our Time - a vernal diversion by Agatha Christie that looks like becoming one of the all-time most popular entries to the series...
Part Twenty-One of our latest audio adventure: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Part Twenty of The Secret Adversary, the latest entry to our series Tales for Our Time...
Episode Nineteen of our current Tale for Our Time - Agatha Christie's second published novel The Secret Adversary...
Part Eighteen of our serialisation of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Part Seventeen of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Episode Sixteen of our vernal diversion by Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary...
Part Fifteen of Agatha Christie's tale of sinister coup-plotters on the loose in London after the Great War: The Secret Adversary...
Episode Fourteen of of The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie's tale of globalist coup-plotters on the streets of London...
The thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Episode Twelve of Mark's serialisation of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Welcome to the sixty-second audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into the work of the world's bestselling author, Agatha Christie...