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 ...

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 ...

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 ...