Mark Steyn

This morning, many woke to the shocking news of the sudden death of US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). He apparently died at his home in DC shortly after returning from a trip to Ukraine. As club member Josh Passell observes over in our clubhouse: Lindsey Graham died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack. We held him in low esteem here, but I'd like to remember him at perhaps his best: opposing the "high-tech lynching" of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation.

During filming of We're Not Dressing, a 1934 musical comedy that came out a month before Carole Lombard ascended into the top rank of screwball comedy heroines with Twentieth Century, her co-star Bing Crosby discovered that the actress had a rather extreme reaction to her one notable phobia. As recalled by Gary Giddins in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years 1903-1940, Crosby had to slap Lombard in one scene.

Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark plays a range of eminent songwriting teams from Rodgers & Hart to, er, Dicks & Rudge. In between we have a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones and a celebration of a peerless pianist - and Steyn concludes with a brief remembrance of the late Bonnie Tyler. To listen to the programme, simply click above. ~Thank you for all your kind comments on last week's US semiquincentennial show.