Mark Steel: Work in Progress

Mark Steel is a stand-up heavyweight and is also a broadcaster, newspaper columnist and author.

Mark has written and presented many series of Mark Steel's In Town on BBC Radio 4 (new series out soon) and toured it live around the UK. Mark has presented the BAFTA nominated Mark Steel Lectures for BBC2, is a regular on BBC One's Have I Got News For You and Radio 4's The News Quiz. He's also appeared on BBC2's QI and Room 101. Mark has written several acclaimed books, including: Reasons To Be Cheerful and What's Going On and he writes a weekly column for The Independent for which he won Columnist of the Year at the Press Awards in 2015.

'He's a man with a passionate desire to communicate his ideas, who is also very funny' (The Guardian).

Mark Steel was placed in Ents24's top 5 hardest-working comedians 2016.