Mark Steel's in Town

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4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Mark Steel's In Town - Margate

“...a nice spot not vulgarised by crowds of literary people...” Oscar Wilde

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

A magical place where T.S Eliot wrote a verse of The Wasteland, J.M.W Turner painted views of the Harbour, Tracy Emin spent her formative years and Pete Doherty has his name on a wall of fame in a cafe for eating a "mega breakfast" in under 20 minutes.

Mark visits Dreamland and its 100 year old rollercoaster, the famous Crab Museum and the historic Walpole Hotel before perfoming his show in the Cliff Bar and snooker hall under the iconic Lido Tower.

This is the 13th series of Mark's award winning show where he travels around the country visiting towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness. After thoroughly researching each town, Mark writes and performs a bespoke evening of comedy for a local audience.

As well as Margate, in this series, Mark be will also be popping to Stoke on Trent, Malvern, East Grinstead and Coleraine in Northern Ireland.

Written and performed by Mark Steel

Additional material by Pete Sinclair Production co-ordinator Katie Baum Sound Manager Jerry Peal Producer Carl Cooper

A BBC Studios Audio production for Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, Garrelinika here with Alan Shearer and Mike Wicherichs to say the
0:05.2	match of the day top 10 podcast is back. We'll be ranking our footballing
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0:20.1	that's all right. You're not going wrong. Really?
0:23.4	Definitely not. Oh, thanks.
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0:37.0	I like Margate because it's
0:43.0	Oh it was the first seaside town was it the first seaside town.
0:48.0	Oh yeah.
0:49.0	Sunsets? I love the beach in winter when there are no people.
0:51.0	The lady who did the unmade bed,
0:53.5	Tracy and he's amazing. She's policy. We've got the Turner contemporary.
0:58.4	You've got T.S. Elliot, he wrote a very famous poem in.
1:00.4	We wrote part of the wasteland at the band stand there.
1:03.2	Dreamland. Dreamland.
1:04.4	You can still see the big wheel.
1:05.8	The teacups.
1:06.5	The enterprise.
1:07.2	The waters.
1:08.2	It was very rick a tea.
1:09.5	You would fear for your life, but you'd still go on it again.
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