Happy Labor Day/Happy Labour Day to our American and Canadian listeners respectively. This week's Song of the Week is subsumed within our annual holiday edition of The Mark Steyn Show, and we think you'll find it appropriately full of backbreaking sweat. For this special episode, Mark has retooled some of his regular features especially for the season. There's some thoughts on work and purpose by figures from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to P J McGuire (the father of America's Labor Day) ...and of course Mark himself on the fast approaching world without work.

Best of all for those who've missed it, there's a brand new installment of The Hundred Years Ago Show with a snapshot in hits and headlines of the Labour Day holiday of 1925.

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