Tring
Mark Steel visits Tring in Hertfordshire and performs a bespoke evening of comedy for a local audience. From 2022.
Mark Steel returns with his award winning show that 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.
Mark travels to Tring in Hertfordshire and discovers the home of the Natural History Museum, and the former private museum of Walter Rothschild, where he goes to see the exhibit of fleas dressed as Mexicans.
Written and performed by Mark Steel.
Additional material by Pete Sinclair.
Producer: Carl Cooper
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2022.
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Broadcasts
- Mon 29 Aug 202218:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 4 Sep 202212:04BBC Radio 4
- Mon 5 Sep 202207:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 5 Sep 202217:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 5 Sep 202222:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 6 Sep 202205:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 20 Mar 202608:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 20 Mar 202613:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 20 Mar 202619:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 21 Mar 202603:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Mark Steel's in Town
Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates a stand-up show for the locals.




