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Mark Steyn - Host

Introducing him at the United States Senate in 2015, Ted Cruz called Mark Steyn "an international bestselling author, a Top Five jazz recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist"

All of which happens to be true.

Mark is the author of After America, which was a Top Five bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; and his most recent bestseller, The [Un]documented Mark Steyn.

"A Marshmallow World", his Christmas single with Jessica Martin, reached Number Seven on Amazon's easy listening bestsellers, and Number 41 on their main pop chart. Their subsequent full-length Christmas album, Making Spirits Bright, reached Number Four on the jazz chart. Mark's latest CD is his cat album, dedicated to his own beloved cat Marvin: Feline Groovy: Songs for Swingin' Cats was a Number One jazz bestseller, a Top 20 album on the Billboard chart, and a Top 30 album on Amazon's pop chart.

Steyn's human rights campaign to restore free speech to Canada led to the repeal by Parliament of the notorious "Section 13" hate-speech law, a battle he recounts in his book Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West.

Mark is a presenter on GB News and Serenade Radio and was a popular guest host of The Rush Limbaugh Program, and of America's Number One cable news show Tucker Carlson Tonight. He can be heard weekly on James Golden's WABC show in New York.

With fans around the world, Steyn has appeared on stages across the planet from Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His 2016 nationwide tour of Australia was sold out coast to coast. He has spoken in the Canadian Parliament, the Danish Parliament, and the Australian Parliament, where he was introduced by the Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop

Over the years, Mark's writing on politics, arts and culture has been published in almost every major newspaper around the English-speaking world, including Britain's The Daily Telegraph, Canada's National Post, The Australian, The Irish Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many more.

Mark's other books include A Song For The Season, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade, Mark Steyn From Head To Toe and The Face Of The Tiger. His personal view of musical theatre, Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, was published to critical acclaim in London, and to somewhat sniffier notices in New York.

If you Click Here, you can find the answers to several FAQs about Mark. You can learn more about him in this interview by Simon Mann from The Age in Australia and in this appreciation by Robert Fulford in Canada's National Post. For more on his approach to the writing life, read this interview with Michele Kirsch of Britain's Channel 4, and enjoy the end result in these quotable barbs as collected by Brian McDermott in Dublin, in John Hawkins' Best of Steyn from recent columns, or in Greg Ransom's Quotable Steyn.

Conrad Black

Conrad Black is a Canadian-born British peer, and former publisher of The London Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, and founder of Canada's National Post.

He is a columnist and regular contributor to several publications, including the National Review Online, The New Criterion, The National Interest, American Greatness, The New York Sun, and the National Post.

Lord Black is an experienced financier, was the head of the Argus and Hollinger corporate groups for many years, and remains active in this field in a number of private companies.

He is a graduate of Carleton (Ottawa), Laval (Quebec), and McGill (Montreal) universities, and is an accomplished historian with a prolific body of work.

As an acclaimed author and biographer, Lord Black has published comprehensive histories of both Canada and the United States, as well as authoritative biographies of Maurice Duplessis, and presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.

Lord Black is also a television and radio commentator and a sporadic participant in the current affairs programming of CNN, Fox News, CTV, CBC, BBC, and Radio Canada.

Michele Bachmann

In 2006, Michele Bachmann emerged from state politics to become the first Republican woman from Minnesota elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. By the time she won a third term in the House, she had become a national figure in the Republican Party and a founding member of the congressional Tea Party Caucus. Despite a limited legislative record, Bachmann's ambitious conservative agenda made her one of the most prominent opponents of the Barack Obama administration during her time in Congress and propelled her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Leilani Dowding

Leilani Dowding is a broadcaster, campaigner and regular contributor to The Mark Steyn Show.

Born in the Bournemouth, Leilani later moved to London to study economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She dropped out after only one semester after being spotted and winning Miss Great Britain 98 and going on to represent Great Britain at Miss Universe 98.

Leilani continued to model and took part in various reality shows in the UK and the USA, including Tough Love Miami and The Real Housewives of Cheshire.

Leilani has always been very outspoken on topics that people are often afraid to touch, and communicates in a no-nonsense, down-to-earth way, which led to her becoming a regular and favourite commentator on GB News (or so she says).

Andrew Lawton

Andrew Lawton is a Canadian radio broadcaster, columnist and commentator. Most recently, Andrew hosted a daily talk radio show on Canada’s Global News radio network, and also, on occasion, guest hosted the nationally syndicated Roy Green Show. His columns have been published in the National Post, the Washington Post, the Toronto Sun, and on Global News. Andrew has appeared as a commentator on BBC, CBC, CTV, TVO

In 2018, Andrew was a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party in the provincial elections of Canada’s largest province, Ontario.

Tal Bachman

The son of BTO and Guess Who founder Randy Bachman, Tal is a singer, songwriter and performer best known for his 1999 hit "She's So High", the critically acclaimed ballad "If You Sleep", and "Aeroplane", around which the movie "American Pie: Bandcamp" was written. Winner of two Juno Awards (Canada's Grammys), a BMI Song of the Year Award, the SOCAN Classic Award and others, Tal has also been featured in publications as diverse as Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Billboard, Q and the Times of London. Despite these successes and guest appearances on "Melrose Place" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", Tal cites as his biggest professional thrill being parodied by Will Ferrell on "Saturday Night Live". He is currently writing a soon-to-be-announced musical comedy-drama for cable TV.

A university graduate in political science with a keen interest in world events, Tal joins the Mark Steyn Tour to lend insights into the world of the arts, culture, and politics, as well as perform a few numbers.

Phelim McAleer

Phelim McAleer is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, public speaker, and podcaster. He is a New York Times best-selling author and one of the most successful crowdfunders in the world. Together with his wife, Ann McElhinney, he has raised $6m in 8 separate crowdfunding campaigns. Their movie Gosnell – The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer was the most successful film project ever on Indiegogo. It raised $2.3 million in just 45 days.

McAleer produced and co-wrote the movie Gosnell - The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer. He co-wrote the NYT Best Seller Gosnell – The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer. The book debuted at #3 Amazon Best Seller and sold out in 3 days after publication.

His most recent movie My Son Hunter (2022), starring Laurence Fox and Gina Carano, has been a massive media event with The Daily Kos and the Guardian writing 5,000 words about the movie before they had even seen it. The New Yorker devoted 2,000 words to their coverage of the movie. Newsweek wrote about it five times - the Guardian twice. It was also covered in the Washington Post, Politico, LA Magazine and the Daily Mail.

McAleer also wrote and produced the play FBI Lovebirds: UNDERCOVERS based on the text messages of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok and their subsequent closed door congressional questioning. HBO's VICE News called it "The most dangerous play in Washington."

McAleer has produced and written several podcasts with his wife Ann McElhinney, including The Ann & Phelim Scoop Podcast, The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered Podcast and Serial Killer: A True Crime Podcast, which reached the top 10 in all true crime podcasts worldwide.

McAleer has produced documentaries for the BBC, CBC (Canada) and RTE (Ireland), as well as two independent feature-length documentaries. Before becoming a filmmaker, Phelim was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times in Eastern Europe, and he covered Romania and Bulgaria for The Economist.

He directed and produced FrackNation - A Journalist's Search for the Fracking Truth, a documentary on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the natural gas boom in the US and abroad. Variety said it was a "briskly paced…mischievous pic."

He also produced and directed Not Evil Just Wrong (2009), a film which examines the devastating consequences of global warming hysteria. And Mine Your Own Business - the first documentary that asks difficult questions of the environmental movement. Canada's The National Post said "Mine Your Own Business is devastating because it combats prejudices and fantasies with pictures that refute thousands of weasel words."

Before that, he covered Ireland for the UK Sunday Times. McAleer began his career in journalism covering the Northern Ireland troubles first as a reporter in Crossmaglen (known as Bandit Country) and then for The Irish News in Belfast.

He produces and directs with his wife Ann McElhinney. They live in Venice, California, with their two cats Mr. Top Cat and Mr. Scaredy Cat.

Ann McElhinney

Ann McElhinney is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist, podcaster, film producer and director and one of the most successful crowdfunders in the world. Together with her husband, Phelim McAleer, she has raised $6m in 8 separate crowdfunding campaigns. Their movie Gosnell – The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer was the most successful film project ever on Indiegogo. It raised $2.3m in just 45 days. She is a producer on the My Son Hunter movie (2022), starring Laurence Fox and Gina Carano.

McElhinney produced the play FBI Lovebirds: UNDERCOVERS based on the text messages of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. Other plays produced by McElhinney include Ferguson, Obamagate, Oh Gosnell: A Play About The Truth and Mermaids Vs. The Alliance.

She produced and co-wrote the movie Gosnell - The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer. She and her husband, journalist Phelim McAleer wrote the NYT Best Seller Gosnell – The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer. The book debuted at #3 Amazon Best Seller and sold out in 3 days after publication.

The Gosnell project has attracted an enormous amount of media coverage on television, radio and with hundreds of articles written about the book, film and the historic crowdfunding.

McElhinney directed and produced FrackNation - A Journalist's Search for the Fracking Truth, a documentary on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the natural gas boom in the US and abroad. Variety said it was a "briskly paced…mischievous pic."

She produced and wrote several podcasts including The Ann & Phelim Scoop, The Climate Change on Trial, The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered and Serial Killer: A True CrimePodcast which reached the top 10 in all true crime podcasts worldwide.

She also produced and directed Not Evil Just Wrong (2009), a film which examines the devastating consequences of global warming hysteria. And Mine Your Own Business - the first documentary that asks difficult questions of the environmental movement. Canada's The National Post said "Mine Your Own Business is devastating because it combats prejudices and fantasies with pictures that refute thousands of weasel words."

McElhinney has made documentaries for the BBC, CBC (Canada) and RTE (Ireland). The Search for Tristan's Mum concerned the case of Tristan Dowse, a baby who was adopted and later abandoned by an Irish man and his wife in Indonesia.

McElhinney was featured in and was the Associate Producer of the highly controversial documentary Return to Sender (2005) for CBC about the adoption of a Romanian child by a rich Canadian couple who years later sent the child back.

McElhinney has also written for or appeared on FOX News, CNN, BBC, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), RTE (Ireland), The Sunday Times and The Irish Times. She has worked as a journalist and filmmaker in the US, Canada, Romania, Bulgaria, Chile, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Ghana and Uganda.

She is an entertaining and sought-after public speaker. McElhinney produces and directs with her husband Phelim McAleer. They live in Venice, California, with their two cats Mr. Top Cat and Mr. Scaredy Cat.

Samantha Smith

Samantha Smith is a British columnist and commentator. She has been published in the Spectator, the Daily Mail, and the Telegraph and has appeared on Sky News, ITV, BBC, and the Mark Steyn Show.

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