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Mark Steel's in TownSeries 7
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Mark Steel hits Greater Manchester to ride the 192 bus, probe marauding peacocks and perform for local residents. From 2016.

"Welcome to Stockport - Home of Stockport College"

Mark Steel returns for a seventh series of the award winning show that travels around the country, researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents.

In the first programme, Mark visits the Greater Manchester town of Stockport, once the centre of the hatting industry.

He takes a trip on the infamous 192 bus, visits the world famous hat museum and tries to get to the bottom of how one of its suburbs ended up with an infestation of marauding peacocks.

In this series Mark visits Stockport in Greater Manchester, Colchester in Essex, Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire, The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames, Lynton in North Devon and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

Written and performed by ... Mark Steel
Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair
Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Sterling
Producer ... Carl Cooper

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2016.

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30 minutes

Last on

Sat 3 Apr 202105:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Credits

PerformerMark Steel
WriterMark Steel
WriterPete Sinclair
ProducerCarl Cooper

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  • Wed 7 Sep 201618:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Wed 14 Sep 201607:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 14 Sep 201617:30
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  • Wed 14 Sep 201622:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 15 Sep 201605:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 8 Jun 201922:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 2 Jan 202123:00
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  • Sun 28 Mar 202119:15
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  • Fri 2 Apr 202107:30
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  • Fri 2 Apr 202117:30
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  • Fri 2 Apr 202122:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 3 Apr 202105:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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