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- Mark's problems start with deciding which name to actually use, and reflects on the town being named the City of Culture. (en)
- Recorded at The Corby Cube, Corby, Northamptonshire. (en)
- Recorded at The Theatre, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. (en)
- Recorded at the BBC's venue at Potterow, Edinburgh, Mark devotes to an episode to the city's district of Leith, where he talks about port workers, pub fights and a hatred of trams. (en)
- Recorded at the local town hall, Steel visits Walsall, West Midlands, and brings up the subject of the local anarchists who were framed by the police, a concrete statue of a hippo and how Walsall has nothing whatsoever to do with Birmingham. (en)
- Mark talks about Tranmere Rovers, the band Half Man Half Biscuit, and visits a pub which is inside a barbers. (en)
- Recorded at the Theatre Royal, Steel performs in Dumfries, on the Scottish border, where Steel looks at the town's hatred of seagulls and love of Robert Burns. (en)
- Recorded at the Drum Centre, Handsworth, Birmingham. (en)
- Recorded at The Maltings Theatre & Cinema in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, Mark talks about the town's war with Russia, its Scottish rivalries and local slang. (en)
- Mark performs from the Marine Hall in Fleetwood, Lancashire. (en)
- Recorded at The Orwell in Wigan, Greater Manchester, where he talks about entering pie eating competitions, living under floorboards, and the radicalism of George Formby. (en)
- Mark performs at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. (en)
- Mark Steel visits the Forest of Dean and performs a bespoke comedy show for the local residents at the historic Speech House located between Coleford and Cinderford. (en)
- Mark performs from The Island Hall in Saint Anne, capital of Alderney in the Channel Islands. (en)
- Recorded at the Myfanwy Theatre, Steel visits Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, and looks at the Merthyr Rising, the boxers and the Welsh roots of Donny Osmond. (en)
- Mark performs in Lynton, Devon. (en)
- Recorded at the All Saints Centre, Steel visits Lewes, East Sussex, and chats about its bonfires, its history of pub fights and the local stroppiness. (en)
- Recorded at King's School, Ottery St Mary, Devon. (en)
- This episode was also broadcast in French. (en)
- Mark performs in Colchester, Essex, the first town in Britain - then Boudicca burnt it to the ground. (en)
- Recorded at The Haymarket in Basingstoke, Hampshire, where he talks about prehistoric roundabouts and a rather unusual world record set in a shopping centre. (en)
- Recorded at the Rosehill Theatre in Whitehaven, Cumbria. (en)
- Mark performs in St. Michael's Cave inside the Rock of Gibraltar. (en)
- Mark Steel visits Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Wales, and performs a bespoke comedy show for the local residents. (en)
- Mark performs in the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames, south-west London. (en)
- Recorded at the Villa Marina & Gaiety Theatre in Douglas, Isle of Man, where he talks about space travel, fairy bridges and the mystery of Gef the Talking Mongoose. (en)
- Mark performs from The Witham in Barnard Castle, County Durham. (en)
- Mark Steel visits Carlisle in Cumbria and performs a bespoke comedy show for the local residents. (en)
- Mark performs at the Garrick Theatre in Stockport, Greater Manchester. (en)
- Recorded at the Old Town Hall, Steel performs in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, in which he talks about the local art, a famous car park, and how the town is definitely not Newcastle. (en)
- Recorded at the Green Room Theatre, Steel performs in Wilmslow, Cheshire, where he talks about footballers' mansions, 3D eyelashes and the rhyming Wizard of Alderley Edge. (en)
- Mark performs from the Melton Theatre in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. (en)
- Recorded at the Canolfan Ucheldre Centre in Holyhead, Anglesey, Mark talks about ferries, foot nibbling and Kate and Wills. (en)
- Recorded at the Mart Theatre, which also acts as a livestock auction hall, Steel visits Skipton, North Yorkshire, in which he talks about the local canals, cattle and Skipton Castle. (en)
- Mark is in the smallest city in Britain, where the locals are sometimes very rude but sometimes almost too friendly. (en)
- Mark performs from Spires Drama Studios in Paisley, Renfrewshire. (en)
- Recorded at the Mull Theatre in Tobermory, the Isle of Mull, the Inner Hebrides. (en)
- Recorded at the Portland Spa Hotel and Conference Centre, Steel visits the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and chats about the history of Portland stone, its military history, and the local hatred of a certain fluffy animal beginning with "R". (en)
- Mark performs from the Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. (en)
- Mark visits the part of London also known as "Little India", visiting and eating at the local Sikh temple, and meets an astrologer with a terrible cold. (en)
- Recorded at The Pickaquoy Centre, Steel performs in Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney, where he talks about a violent ball game, Thorfinn The Skullsplitter and why the weather makes it pointless being a hairdresser on the archipelago. (en)
- Mark visits Glastonbury to talk about the legend of King Arthur, visits the only two chain shops on the High Street, and makes a crucial mistake involving cider. (en)
- Recorded at The Mick Jagger Centre, Steel performs in Dartford in his home county of Kent, discussing the Peasants' Revolt, gypsy tart, and what one resident calls the "Road To Hell". (en)
- Mark Steel visits Hastings in East Sussex and performs for the locals. (en)
- Recorded at the Blackfriars Arts Centre, Steel visits Boston, Lincolnshire, and discusses the town's love of Brussels sprouts, its links with Puritanism and the story of the Boston Stump. (en)
- Mark Steel visits Malta and performs a bespoke comedy show for the local residents. (en)
- Recorded at the Acorn Arts Centre, Steel performs in Penzance, Cornwall, where he looks at the town's remoteness and pasties, as well as the Newlyn fish riots and an unusual civil war concerning a ferry terminal. (en)
- Recorded at The Fisher Centre in Bungay, Suffolk, where he talks about non-existent castles, haunted pubs and chicken roundabouts. (en)
- Mark comes to the town which is the historical home of rugby league, the Luddites and Last of the Summer Wine. (en)
- Mark Steel visits the Norfolk town of King's Lynn and performs a bespoke comedy show for the local residents. (en)
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