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 3 repeated Friday at 10:30pm on Radio 4 Extra
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Radio Review: Mark Steel's in Town
A little local knowledge helps Mark Steel dish the dirt on Dartford, writes Elisabeth Mahoney.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 8th April 2010Mark Steel in "The Knightsbridge of the north"
Mark Steel was in town last night to perform his stand up comedy show all about Wilmslow and Alderley Edge.
Lisa Reeves, Wilmslow.co.uk, 13th February 2010A new series and rabbits and Chas 'n' Dave
A few weeks ago I began the awkward business of starting work on a second series.
Mark Steel, 13th January 2010A wry look at life on Portland
Comedian Mark Steel won over Portlanders with a wry look at island life.
His routine, which will be broadcast on Radio 4 next Wednesday, featured the Echo's Portland Correspondent Hilda Swinney and local historian Stuart Morris.
Diarmuid MacDonagh, The Dorset Echo, 18th April 2009Mark Steel says Merthyr Tydfil has lost its fighting spirit
Comedian Mark Steel's current Radio 4 series sees him performing bespoke gigs in Britain's less celebrated towns. Gavin Allen talks to him about tonight's show which he recorded in Merthyr Tydfil.
Gavin Allen, Wales Online, 15th April 2009Mark Steel interview
Comedian Mark Steel talks about his latest radio venture, his reality show dreams with Anne Widdecombe, and what he's up to next...
Simon Brew, Den Of Geek, 1st April 2009And I should mention Mark Steel's In Town, in which the comedian visits small towns across the UK and tailor-makes a stand-up routine for the locals. Last week was Boston, which bore Steel's mickey-taking about its lack of hills with amusement. A simple idea, kindly and wittily executed by another unfashionably humane Englishman. Thank Gaia they still exist.
Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, 29th March 2009Mark Steel gets the Yorkshire relish
No Yorkshire stereotype was left untapped when Mark Steel tried to make them laugh in Skipton - and succeeded.
Chris Campling, The Times, 24th March 2009Mark Steel: The significance of a concrete hippo in Walsall
Each year, if you travel round the country, you see every town becoming more depressingly impersonal and identical. You could be in Inverness, Plymouth or Norwich and guarantee the shopping precinct consisted of a Body Shop, H&M, Clinton Cards, a shut-down Woolworths, a Wetherspoon, a fake Irish pub, a Nando's, a Pizza Hut with yawning teenager and glass screw-top jar of stuck-together parmesan cheese, River Island, Boots, Vodafone, a student in plastic bib overly keen to sign you up for Amnesty International and a bunch of Peruvians playing "I just Called To Say I Love You" on the poxy pan-pipes.
Mark Steel, The Independent, 18th March 2009Writer and comedian Mark Steel goes on tour, visiting six different towns across the UK and tuning into their foibles.
After delving into the history of each town, and getting to know the people, he creates a bespoke stand-up show which is performed before a local audience.
His destinations are Lewes, Skipton, Boston, Walsall, Merthyr Tydfil and one more yet to be confirmed. Maybe it's your town.
Alan Cookman, Stoke Sentinel, 18th March 2009