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Mark Steel (born July 4, Socialist Columnist and Comedian . He has been a member of the Socialist Workers Party since his late teens. EARLY LIFE Steel grew up in Swanley , Kent , in the late 1970s . His anger and frustration at society's injustices were vented by political protests, Punk Rock and poetry. He was expelled from Swanley Comprehensive School , on ''St Mary's Road'', for attending a cricket course at the age of 15, and went on to work in a garage and then live in a Squat . From here he went on to make his first public performance as a poet. Today, he still likes watching Kent play at cricket. CAREER Steel found an outlet for his passion in stand up comedy. He worked the comedy circuit for several years, and then presented a satirical radio show '' The Mark Steel Solution '' on BBC Radio 5 in 1992, consisting of half hourly monologues where Steel offered solutions to social problems, which ran to 4 series. ''It's not a runner bean'', a comic autobiography was published in 1996 and this led to a column in '' The Guardian '', and where his writing career really took off. Steel wrote a column for ''The Guardian'' between 1996 and 1999. He was sacked by that newspaper (according to him because ''The Guardian'' wanted to "realign towards Tony Blair", though ''The Guardian'' deny this). In 2000 he started writing a weekly column for '' The Independent '' which appears in the Wednesday Opinion Column. In 2000 Steel took part in the London Assembly elections on behalf of the London Socialist Alliance (a pre-cursor to the Socialist Alliance ) in the Croydon & Sutton constituency; he received 1,823 votes (1.5 per cent of the vote). He has written and performed several radio and television series for the BBC , and authored several books, as detailed below. In 2005 he toured the UK, where he discussed the French revolution from a comic view point. Mark made his debut on the BBC Radio 5 sports-comedy programme '' Fighting Talk '' in 2006. PERSONAL LIFE Mark lives in South London with his partner Bindy and their two children, Elliot and Eloise. He is a Crystal Palace F.C. fan. RADIO PROGRAMMES
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