Mark Steel's In Town
- 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.
- Series 2, Episode 4 repeated Friday at 10:30pm on Radio 4 Extra
Episode menu
Series 6, Episode 2 - Melton Mowbray
Mark performs from the Melton Theatre in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the "Rural Capital of Food": the home of pork pies, stilton cheese, and perhaps not surprisingly the most obese area in the county. Mark also looks into the history of fox hunting, a crime fighting milkman and the Melton Mowbray Town Estate.
Further details
In the second episode Mark visits the Leicestershire Town of Melton Mowbray where he discovers that as well as being the home of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and Stilton Cheese, it has also coincidentally, been officially ranked the most obese area of Leicestershire. He looks at the history of fox hunting in the area, meets several eccentric local residents including a crime fighting milk man and he tries to get to the bottom of who and what is the Melton Mowbray Town Estate, a mysterious organisation established in 1549.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 26th May 2015
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Mark Steel | Host / Presenter |
| Mark Steel | Writer |
| Pete Sinclair | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Carl Cooper | Producer |