154 - Mark Steel (Live at the Edinburgh Fringe)

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In at the beginning of alternative comedy, and now a "venerated lefty" and Columnist Of The Year 2015, punchy pundit Mark Steel has lost none of his passion. We discuss his BBC Radio 4 series which pokes fun at the British on a town-by-town basis, learn about the startling revelations of his personal history, and hear how he rubs shoulders with the enemy, backstage at "Question Time"...

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1:07.0	This is a podcast from comedian podgos. Hello and welcome to the show. podcast.
1:25.8	Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. Today I'm talking to Mark Steele, a brilliant political comedian and not just a political one, but an excellent comedian who was there at the beginning in the 80s, the birth of alternative comedy.
1:28.3	He was there and has been working hard ever since.
1:31.3	He did a fabulous show at Edinburgh this year about a genuinely startling discovery in his own family tree.
1:38.8	And he's also one columnist of the year last year, 2015 so he has got absolutely bundles to say
1:45.3	I'm gonna let him say it recorded live at Black Medicine in Edinburgh as part of
1:50.1	the Edinburgh Fringe festival last year under the auspices of the
1:53.4	P. B. H. Free Fringe. This is Mr. Mark Steele. Thank you're
2:07.4	Thank you. Now we've got to try this, haven't we?
2:14.6	What was this? We were just the peculiar mic? Yes, yeah, no, you're doing fine. Okay, is that all right? Is that stall all right? Yeah, the store's right and this is right I think. Ladies and
2:18.3	gentlemen. It's dear, dear 406 in the Edinburgh Festival. Some of the performers have started to eat members of the audience.
2:27.0	How are you in these final days?
2:30.0	Are you co-op- Oh, you?
2:31.0	No, no one's coming.
2:32.0	I'm given that comics are mental to start with that it's then it's
2:36.4	really quite deranged and peculiar and it's sort of um and it's quite odd to just sort of wander up the road.
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