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 ...

Short-span bridges provide vital links in the nation’s infrastructure network. Yet, on average, there are 188 million trips taken across structurally deficient bridges each day. Congress is currently ...

Mark presents the life of Lord Byron, and how these days the modern teenager would never embrace someone who was artistic. Mark presents the life of Aristotle, and tries to prove his importance in the ...

Rhinesstone Steel Lecture night is happening March 20th @ 8pm. doors at 7:30. here are the amazing folks lined up to talk: Aqdas Aftab (south asian queer attachments and politcis), Moriah ella Mason ( ...

A good-sized audience, composed chiefly of students, assembled in Sander's Theatre last evening to hear Mr. Clarke's lecture on steel bridges. In a few words, President Eliot introduced the speaker, ...

A sequel of sorts to The Mark Steel Revolution, the series found the stand-up comic presenting potted life stories of notable historical figures. "In these times in which our world appears to be ...

For me, the Radio 4 series of The Mark Steel Lectures was a delight. In each episode, he proved himself to be one of the few people who can talk passionately and entertainingly about relatively ...