Mark Steel's In Town Series 12 episode guide

Radio stand-up
BBC Radio 4
2009 - 2024
73 episodes (13 series)

Mark Steel visits a town in Britain and investigates its society & history before performing a bespoke stand-up show for locals.

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1. Nottingham

Monday 22^nd August 2022

Mark visits Nottingham, a contrarian city, full of heroes, rebels, caves and lovers of mushy peas. He learns about local legends, Robin Hood, Lord Byron, DH Lawrence, Brian Clough, and the most famous of all, Frank the xylophone player. He looks at the history of the Luddites, the cheese riots and visits three pubs that are all the oldest in the country.

2. Tring

Monday 29^th August 2022

Mark travels to Tring in Hertfordshire, home of the Natural History Museum, former private museum of Walter Rothschild, where he goes to see the exhibit of fleas dressed as Mexicans.

3. The Isles of Scilly

Monday 5^th September 2022

Mark visits the Isles of Scilly, where he learns not to call it the Scilly Isles, the perils of travelling to it on the "Vomit Comet", how everything revolves around the local Co-op, meets the local bus driver who doubles as a radio presenter, and discovers the most unpopular company in the area as well as how they get rid of old cars.

4. Salisbury

Monday 12^th September 2022

Mark visits Salisbury in Wiltshire, home of Stonehenge, despite being eight miles away. He learns that very building seems to have something on it in Latin, the Waitrose appears to be bigger than Salisbury Cathedral, the strangeness of Porton Down, how in medieval times the entire city moved, visits a pub containing a mummified hand, and talks to the reincarnation of King Arthur.

5. Newport

Wednesday 21^st September 2022

Mark visits Newport in Gwent in Wales (although it was for a period in England), which one local describes as the "arson capital of world". Mark talks about the controversial new train station, the love of chips and cheese, the town's contirbution to poetry and boxing, the Transporter Bridge, the police station that became a S&M club, Fanny's Cafe and Goldie Lookin Chain.

6. Paris

Monday 26^th September 2022

Mark goes abroad to perform in a boat on the River Seine in Paris, twice: once in English and again in French. He talks about the language, visiting the Moulin Rouge, the Metro and Paris Syndrome.

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