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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ACMP and Canon will present a series of lectures and workshops by award-winning advertising photographer, Simon Harsent, titled Making Your Mark, Passion to Profit in Melbourne, Sydney and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

London’s Architectural Association is undergoing the sort of dramatic change all schools of architecture periodically experience. They will be taking on a new director in the fall, Eva Franch i ...

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 ...

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 ...