For most of the year, Quarry Farm — the former summer home of famed author Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain — is reserved for Twain scholars. But in the spring and fall each year, the ...
A sequel of sorts to The Mark Steel Revolution, the series found the stand-up comic presenting potted life stories of notable historical figures. "In these times in which our world appears to be ...
Mark Steel turns up the volume on Beethoven with his tribute to a man who was the nearest eighteenth-century Vienna got to not only Jimi Hendrix, but also Captain Sensible. Unflinchingly exposing ...
Comedian and journalist Mark Steel talks about the life and work of Karl Marx in this show based on his Radio 4 lectures, claiming his theories are more relevant now than ever before and citing ...
He knew he'd made it when his name was an answer on University Challenge. But it's no surprise he's a student icon. The comedian, who's from Swanley, has achieved cult status with his TV show The Mark ...
Comedian Mark Steel series of humorous lectures about the significance of historical figures that have shaped their era, starting with the life and times of the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' ...
One might think white suits were Mark Twain's signature, but clothing was much more than that to one of Elmira's favorite adopted sons. On Wednesday, a lecture at the barn at Quarry Farm in Elmira ...
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The Mark Steel Lectures are a series of radio and television programmes. Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents arguments for the importance of a historical figure. The ...
For me, the Radio 4 series of The Mark Steel Lectures was a delight. In each episode, he proved himself to be one of the few people who can talk passionately and entertainingly about relatively ...
Comedian and writer Mark Steel is hard at work editing the forthcoming TV version of his popular BBC Radio Four series The Mark Steel lectures. Royton Assembly Hall on Friday, March 15 and Hebden ...