Mark Steel's In Town Series 13 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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Series 13

1. Margate

Monday 24^th June 2024

In this first episode Mark visits the lovely seaside town of Margate in the Thanet district of Kent.

2. Malvern

Monday 1^st July 2024

This week Mark visits the Malvern hills in Worcestershire, famous for it's water - notable for having nothing it.

3. East Grinstead

Monday 8^th July 2024

This week Mark visits the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, home to the carol 'Good King Wenceslas' and the UK headquarters of the Church of Scientology.

4. Stoke-on-Trent

Monday 15^th July 2024

This week, Mark is visiting the town of Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire - or rather the six towns that make up the entire area.

The comedian visits Nether Edge, a leafy suburb of Sheffield which wants to become a village. Here he samples the local honey, visits the local shops and cafes, a rum keg, the bowl's club that once threw out Ronnie Wood for inappropriate behaviour, and he talks to the passionate locals about a campaign by the council to make the area less leafy by cutting down half of the trees.

6. Coleraine

Monday 29^th July 2024

The comedian visits the Northern Irish town of Coleraine in County Derry/Londonderry - home of James Nesbitt, nearby home of the Giant's Causeway and Game Of Thrones, and seemingly home to no-one who speaks Ulster Scots despite signs having to be written in it.

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