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• BBC Open University: The Mark Steel Lectures - Programme website for his television lectures, viewing key figures in the history of human thought from a somewhat quirky perspective. Includes presenter profile, study pages, related articles and forum.
• Chortle: Mark Steel - Tour dates plus profile including stand-up, television, radio, books and online work.
• The Do-Not Press: It's Not A Runner Bean - Author profile, reviews and an extract from Mark Steel's autobiographical story of his career in comedy, subtitled The Trauma of the Slightly Successful Comedian.
• IMDb - Mark Steel - Includes his filmography as an actor and as himself plus notable TV guest appearances.
• Off the Kerb Productions: Mark Steel - Includes the author and comedian's upcoming projects, biography, reviews, one of his columns for the Independent newspaper and audio clips from the BBC Mark Steel Lectures.
• Wikipedia - Mark Steel - Offers details about the British comedian's radio and television series and appearances plus books he's written.

• Socialist Worker: The History We Deserve - Interview with comedian and author Mark Steel on his new TV series about great historical figures. (October 4, 2003)
• Socialist Review: Behind Byron's Bear - Pat Stack's interview with socialist comedian Mark Steel about his new TV series The Mark Steel Lectures. (October 1, 2003)
• Guardian: Heard the one about Darwin's worms? - According to Mark Steel, it's when the great characters of history are slotted into the ideas and society around them that they become fascinating - which is how he came to create The Mark Steel Lectures. (September 29, 2003)