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Mark Steel's In Town

Mark Steel's In Town

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2009 - 2022
  • 67 episodes (12 series)

Mark Steel visits a town in Britain and investigates its society & history before performing a bespoke stand-up show for locals.

  • Due to return for Series 13

Episode menu

Series 6, Episode 2 - Melton Mowbray

Mark performs from the Melton Theatre in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the "Rural Capital of Food": the home of pork pies, stilton cheese, and perhaps not surprisingly the most obese area in the county. Mark also looks into the history of fox hunting, a crime fighting milkman and the Melton Mowbray Town Estate.

Further details

In the second episode Mark visits the Leicestershire Town of Melton Mowbray where he discovers that as well as being the home of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and Stilton Cheese, it has also coincidentally, been officially ranked the most obese area of Leicestershire. He looks at the history of fox hunting in the area, meets several eccentric local residents including a crime fighting milk man and he tries to get to the bottom of who and what is the Melton Mowbray Town Estate, a mysterious organisation established in 1549.

Broadcast details

Date
Tuesday 26th May 2015
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Tuesday 2nd June 2015 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 2nd June 2015 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 2nd June 2015 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 3rd June 2015 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 10th April 2017 11:30am Radio 4
Saturday 4th May 2019 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
Mark Steel Host / Presenter
Writing team
Mark Steel Writer
Pete Sinclair Writer (Additional Material)
Production team
Carl Cooper Producer

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