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Mark Steel's in Town

Comedy: Standup

Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates a stand-up show for the locals.

Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK, meets the locals, and creates a stand up show for them - and us - about the town.

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Mark Steel's in Town: Series 5

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Pete Sinclair

Ed Morrish

Mark Steel's in Town: Series 5: Episode 5: Birkenhead

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Episode 5: Birkenhead

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Birkenhead

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Mark visits Birkenhead, Wirral, where the local life has included monks and a Bantam Army.

The shipyard, monks and a pub inside a barbershop. Mark's travelling stand-up town show arrives on the Wirral. From February 2014.

Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth 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 does a bespoke evening of comedy in each one. 

As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the next, Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the local and the unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering to the word you can't say in Portland, the show has taken in the idiosyncrasies of towns up and down the country, from Kirkwall to Penzance, from Holyhead to Bungay.

This edition comes from Birkenhead, Wirral, where the landscape may be dominated by the shipyard but the local life has also included monks, a "Bantam Army", one of the quirkiest bands in the country, and a pub inside a barbershop. You will also find out why this edition of Mark Steel's In Town was probably the inspiration for Woody Allen's Manhattan. From February 2014.

Written and performed by ... Mark Steel
Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair
Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens
Producer ... Ed Morrish.

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Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates a show for a local audience

Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates a stand-up show for a local audience based on what he finds out about the area

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