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Mark Steel (born 1961) is an English socialist columnist and comedian. He has been a member of the Socialist Workers Party since his late teens.
Early life
Steel was a typical disaffected teenager growing up in the Swanley, Kent, UK in the late 1970s. His anger and frustration at society's injustices were vented by political protests, punk music and poetry.
He was expelled from school, and went on to work in a garage and then live in a squat. From here he went on to make his first public performance as a poet.
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BBC 4: The Mark Steel Lectures - Programme site for his radio lectures delivered by Mark Steel includes quiz and related links.
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BBC Open University: The Mark Steel Lectures - Programme website for his television lectures, viewing key figures in the history of human thought from a somewhat quirky perspective. Includes presenter profile, study pages, related articles and forum.
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Chortle: Mark Steel - Tour dates plus profile including stand-up, television, radio, books and online work.
Guardian: Heard the one about Darwin's worms? - According to Mark Steel, it's when the great characters of history are slotted into the ideas and society around them that they become fascinating - which is how he came to create The Mark Steel Lectures.
IMDb - Mark Steel - Includes his filmography as an actor and as himself plus notable TV guest appearances.
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Independent: Mark Steel - Archives of his weekly Thursday humour column in the Independent newspaper.
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New Statesman: Things Didn't Get Better - Mick Hume's review of Mark Steel's book Reasons to be Cheerful: From Punk to New Labour through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker.
Off the Kerb Productions: Mark Steel - Includes the author and comedian's upcoming projects, biography, reviews, one of his columns for the Independent newspaper and audio clips from the BBC Mark Steel Lectures.
Socialist Review: Behind Byron's Bear - Pat Stack's interview with socialist comedian Mark Steel about his new TV series The Mark Steel Lectures.
Socialist Worker: The History We Deserve - Interview with comedian and author Mark Steel on his new TV series about great historical figures.
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The Do-Not Press: It's Not A Runner Bean - Author profile, reviews and an extract from Mark Steel's autobiographical story of his career in comedy, subtitled The Trauma of the Slightly Successful Comedian.
Wikipedia - Mark Steel - Offers details about the British comedian's radio and television series and appearances plus books he's written.
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