In each episode of this award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, comedian Tag Steel visits a UK town and researches its history, heritage and culture, after which he performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents.

Mark’s destinations in series 7 and 8 are: Stockport, Colchester, Hebden Bridge, Kingston upon Thames, Lynton and Lynmouth, Gibraltar, Bedford, Matlock and Matlock Shower, Inverness, Portishead, Hull and Ventnor over the Isle of Wight. This collection includes bonus special expanded shows from Gibraltar and Ventnor.

In 2010 2010 Mark Steel’s around won a Silver Award for ‘Best Comedy’ in the Sony Radio Academy Awards, and in 2012 it earned the Gold Award in the same category. Also this year 2010 it received the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Prize for ‘Best Radio Comedy / Light Entertainment’. The series was voted ‘Greatest Radio Entertainment Present’ in the Comedy.co.uk Honours held by the British Comedy Information in the 2012 and 2015 awards.