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Radio Oldie — 499 episodes
498: Robert Harris in conversation with Harry Mount
497: Nigel Havers in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
496: When Harry Met Fruity - the September issue of The Oldie
495: Michael Rosen in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
494: The Odd Couple, sponsored by Baillie Gifford, actual investors
493: When Harry Met Fruity - Ed Stourton remembered
492: Amanda Craig in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
491: Titus Mills in conversation with Harry Mount
490: When Harry Met Fruity – the August issue of The Oldie
489: Tony Adams tells Harry Mount about his new book, '1996 – Reflections on the Year that Changed My Life'.
488: Tony Adams at the Oldie Literary Lunch
487: Rowan Williams at the Oldie Literary Lunch
486: A. N. Wilson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
485: Nicholas Shakespeare in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
484: The Odd Couple, sponsored by Baillie Gifford - John Humphrys recalls interviewing Prime Ministers, from Jim Callaghan to Andy Burnham
483: When Harry Met Fruity – the highs and lows of theatre
483: When Harry Met Fruity – the August issue of The Oldie
482: Jim White in conversation with Harry Mount
481: Maureen Lipman - Elsa's Dad
480: Editor Harry Mount chats to Fruity Metcalf, editor of the new Oldie Review of Books, free with the July issue of The Oldie
479: Kathy Lette in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
478: Pru Leith at the Oldie Literary Lunch
477: Robert Hardman at the Oldie Literary Lunch
476: A N Wilson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
475: Andrew Gailey at the Oldie Literary Lunch
474: When Harry Met Fruity – the July Issue
473: David Hockney's biographer Christopher Sykes talks to Harry Mount
472: Andrew Graham-Dixon at the Oldie Literary Lunch
471: Sinclair McKay at the Oldie Literary Lunch
470: James Reed at the Oldie Literary Lunch
469: The Odd Couple, sponsored by Baillie Gifford Actual Investors: John Humphrys and Matthew Norman on the World Cup
468: Maureen Lipman – Driving Miss Maisie
467: When Harry Met Fruity – the June issue of The Oldie
466: Margaret Drabble in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
465: The Odd Couple, sponsored by Baillie Gifford - John Humphrys and Matthew Norman on Restaurant Hell - and Heaven
464: Christopher Hampton in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
463: Colin Bell at the Oldie Literary Lunch
461: Robert Hardman at the Oldie Literary Lunch
462: Hugo Vickers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
460: Christine Dawood in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
459: John Tusa in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
457: Anne Sebba in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
456: Sebastian Faulks at the Oldie Literary Lunch
455: Sara Wheeler at the Oldie Literary Lunch
454: Anna Mathias at the Oldie Literary Lunch
453: Mary Beard in conversation with Harry Mount
452: The Odd Couple with John Humphrys & Matthew Norman - Episode 1
451: Rose Wylie in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
450: Simon Jenkins in conversation with Harry Mount
449: Antony Beevor at the Oldie Literary Lunch
448: Simon Jenkins at the Oldie Literary Lunch
447: Candida Meyrick at the Oldie Literary Lunch
447: Candida Meyrick at the Oldie Literary Lunch
446: Derek Jacobi in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
445: Antony Beevor in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
444: Nigel Planer in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
443: Dinah - A Maureen Lipman monologue
442: Nigel Planer at the Oldie Literary Lunch
441: Tom Hodgkinson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
440: Pru Leith at the Oldie Literary Lunch
439: Miriam Stoppard in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
438: Lady Antonia Fraser at the 2025 Oldie of the Year Awards
437: Maggi Hambling at the 2025 Oldie of the Year Awards
436: Michael Heath at the 2025 Oldie of the Year Awards
435: Stephen Frears at the 2025 Oldie of the Year Awards
434: Anita Lasker-Walfisch at the 2025 Oldie of the Year Awards
433: Susan Hampshire at the 2025 Oldie of the Year Awards
432: Stephen Frears in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
431: Jeremy King in conversation with Harry Mount
430: Mary Berry at the Oldie Literary Lunch
429: Jeremy King at the Oldie Literary Lunch
428: John Davie at the Oldie Literary Lunch
427: Helen Macdonald in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
426: Hunter Davies in conversation with Harry Mount
425: Michael Palin in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
424: Anne Glenconner in conversation with Harry Mount
423: Matthew Bourne in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
422: Gyles Brandreth at the Oldie Literary Lunch
421: Anne Glenconner at the Oldie Literary Lunch
420: Adam Sisman at the Oldie Literary Lunch
419: Pam Ayres in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
418: Henry Marsh in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
417: Andrew Lownie at the Oldie Literary Lunch
416: Ferdinand Mount at the Oldie Literary Lunch
415: Roger Moorhouse at the Oldie Literary Lunch
414: Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
413: Michael Morpurgo in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
412: Merlin Holland in conversation with Harry Mount
411: Merlin Holland at the Oldie Literary Lunch
410: Sarah Vine at the Oldie Literary Lunch
409: Ysenda Maxtone-Graham at the Oldie Literary Lunch
408: Edward Fox in conversation with Harry Mount
407: Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
406: Jeremy Hunt in conversation with Harry Mount
405: Gus Christie in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
404: Jonathan Dimbleby at the Oldie Literary Lunch
403: Jeremy Hunt at the Oldie Literary Lunch
402: Frances Wilson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
401: Gyles Brandreth in conversation with Harry Mount
400: A N Wilson at the Dartmouth Literary Festival
399: Alexander McCall Smith in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
398: Rachel Johnson in conversation with Harry Mount
397: Amanda Barrie at the Oldie Literary Lunch
396: Paula Byrne at the Oldie Literary Lunch
395: Eleanor Doughty at the Oldie Literary Lunch
394: Harry Mount in conversation with Antonia Fraser
393: Joshua Levine in conversation with Harry Mount
392: Andrew Lownie in conversation with Harry Mount
391: Fay Maschler in conversation with Harry Mount
390: John Lloyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
389: Rachel Kelly in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
388: Helen Lederer in conversation with Harry Mount
387: Sarah Sands in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
386: Philippa Langley at the Oldie Literary Lunch
385: David Hepworth at the Oldie Literary Lunch
384: Lucy Moore at the Oldie Literary Lunch
383: Mary Kenny in conversation with Harry Mount
382: Nicky Haslam in conversation with Harry Mount
381: Mark Ellen in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
380: Tracy Chevalier at the Oldie Literary Lunch
379: Sinclair McKay at the Oldie Literary Lunch
378: Anne Sebba at the Oldie Literary Lunch
377: Emma, the Duchess of Rutland, in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
376: James Holland in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
375: Bruce Beresford in conversation with Harry Mount
374: Nicholas Coleridge in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
373: Graydon Carter in conversation with Harry Mount
372: Marks & Gran in conversation with Harry Mount
371: Theo Fennell in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
370: Sir Trevor McDonald at the Oldie Literary Lunch
369: Adam Nicolson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
368: Angela V John at the Oldie Literary Lunch
367: Tom Hodgkinson in conversation with Harry Mount
366: Kate Summerscale at the Oldie Literary Lunch
365: Andrew Pierce at the Oldie Literary Lunch
364: Sandy Nairne at the Oldie Literary Lunch
363: Loyd Grossman in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
362: Nicole Farhi in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
361: Lynn Barber in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
360: Roger Lewis in conversation with Harry Mount
359: Elisabeth Luard, Oldie Cookery Correspondent, on Substack, a new way to publish your articles and make money
358: How to write a travel feature with William Cook, Oldie Theatre Critic
357: How to write a review with Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor
356: How to write a column with Mary Kenny, Oldie columnist
355: Harry Mount, Editor of The Oldie, on the Do’s and Don’ts of journalism
354: Simon Williams in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
353: Roger McGough in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
352: Ben MacIntyre at the Oldie Literary Lunch
351: A. N. Wilson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
350: Hugo Vickers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
349: Charles Moore in conversation with Harry Mount
348: Matthew Norman in conversation with Harry Mount
347: A. N. Wilson in conversation with Harry Mount
346: Ben Okri in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
345: Victoria Hislop at the Oldie Literary Lunch
344: James Stourton at the Oldie Literary Lunch
343: Liz Hodgkinson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
342: Lucinda Lambton on Britain’s Quirkiest Buildings
341: The extraordinary life of Elisabeth Luard, food writer, author, painter and Oldie columnist
340: Peter York in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
339: Hugh Johnson at the Oldie Literary Lunch
338: Tim Marshall at the Oldie Literary Lunch
337: Chris Patten at the Oldie Literary Lunch
336: ‘A 15-Year Suicide Note’ - Robert Bathurst on the genius of Jeff Bernard’s Low Life column
335: Ed Stourton in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast - Kenneth Cranham in conversation with Harry Mount on Elvis
Oldie Podcast - William Boyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast - John Standing in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast – Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount
Oldie Podcast - Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sam Leith - 10th December 2024
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gyles Brandreth - 10th December 2024
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Stephen Fry
Thomas Pakenham on the Daredevil Tree-Hunters
Oldie Podcast - John Suchet in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast - Don Black in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Mac accepts his award Oldie Lead in his Pencil Award
The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024- Nanette Newman & John Standing, Oldie in-laws of the Year 2024
The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Manette Baillie, 102, accepts her Oldie Flying Angel of The Year award
The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Golden Oldie of the Silver Screen, accepts his award
The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Christian Lamb, 104, accepts her award Oldie D-Day Mastermind
The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Bill Wyman - The Oldie of The Year Acceptance Speech
Oldie Podcast - Hugo Vickers in conversation with Harry Mount on Clarissa, Countess of Avon
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Jacqueline Wilson on Think Again
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - John Suchet on Finding Beethoven: A Personal Story
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Bendor Grosvenor on The Invention of British Art
Oldie Podcast - Craig Brown in conversation with Harry Mount
Oldie Podcast - Leslie Caron in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast - Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount on meeting JFK
Oldie Podcast - Griff Rhys Jones in conversation with Harry Mount
Oldie Podcast - War Poems - Kenneth Cranham recites Disabled by Wilfred Owen
Oldie Podcast - War Poems - Kenneth Cranham recites Dulce Et Deocrum est by Wilfred Owen
Oldie Podcast - Algy Cluff in conversation with Harry Mount on Lord Lucan
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Pam Ayres on Doggedly Onward
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Henry Blofeld on Sharing My Love of Cricket
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording- Bill Wyman sheds a tear in an emotional recount of Billy In The Wars
Giles and Mary in conversation Harry Mount at The Dorchester Literary Festival
Oldie Podcast - Lady Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount
Oldie Podcast - Anne Robinson in conversation with Harry Mount
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Patrick Bishop: Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sonia Purnell on Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - William Dalrymple on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
The Oldie Literary Lunch Recording 10th September 2024
Oldie Literary Recording - Philippa Forester on Wild Woman
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Mr Chelsea aka Paul Davis
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Helen Lederer on Not That I'm Bitter
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Dame Zandra Rhodes on Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Ingrid Seward on My Mother & I: King Charles III
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Helen McGinn, aka The Knackered Mother on Island of Dreams
Oldie Podcast - Pattie Boyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Richard Coles on Murder at the Monastery
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Linda McDougall on Marcia Williams: The Life of Lady Falkender
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Katie Hickman on Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Oldie Podcast - Rebecca Hossack in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast - Edward Burtynsky in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast - Mary Killen in conversation with Tom Assheton
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gill Johnson on Love From Venice, her first book written aged 90 plus
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Bloody Panico: Whatever Happened To The Tory Party
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Doctor Daisy Dunn on The Missing Thread
Oldie Podcast - John Humphrys in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Oldie Podcast - Charlotte Metcalf in conversation with Prue Leith for The Oldie
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Jane Tippett on Edward VIII - he was a "truly modern monarch" 14th May 2024
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Nicholas Shakespeare's favourite magazine? The Oldie, of course! Nicholas on Fleming: The Complete Man
The Irony for Lady Anne Somerset speaking about Queen Victoria at The National Liberal Club
Twentieth Century Heroines - Podcast by Tom Assheton & James Jackson
Sinclair McKay reveals Winston Churchill's encounters at The Oldie Literary Lunch on April 9th 2024
'Brave Women'. Rick Stroud remembers his brave daughter Nell at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 9th April 2024 and told us why his latest books mean so much to him
A Very Private School. Charles Spencer speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 9th April 2024
The Great Escape - Oldie Podcast with Tom Assheton and James Jackson
Harry Bucknall Podcast on the 80th Anniversary of Patrick Leigh-Femor capturing General Kreipe
Harry Mount about Oldie Tours interviewed by Tom Assheton
Michael Mansfield KC speaking about Power In The People
Tom Hodgkinson on 30 Years of The Idler at The Oldie Literary Lunch 5th March 2024
Charles Glass on Soldiers Don't Go Mad at The Oldie Literary Lunch 5th March 2024
Join Huon Mallalieu and Kirsty Fergusson for a Festive Tour of the Low Countries 9th - 14th December, 2024
David Kynaston at The Oldie Literary Lunch on A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-1965
Henry Jefferies at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Feb on Vines In a Cold Climate
Ysenda Maxtone-Graham on Jobs For The Girls at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Feb
Roger Lewis on his latest book Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Hardman talking at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
Andrew Roberts speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch 23 Jan on his latest book Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
Gyles Brandreth on Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait
Mary Beard delights The Oldie Literary Lunch on her latest book Emperor of Rome
The Duke of Beaufort on his memoir The Unlikely Duke at The Oldie Literary Lunch 12 Dec 2023
Jilly Cooper on her latest bonkbuster Tackle at The Oldie's November Literary Lunch 2023
Michael Palin speaks at The Oldie Nov Literary Lunch about his latest book Great Uncle Harry
Bob Cryer at The Oldie's Nov 2023 Literary Lunch on his father Barry Cryer
Simon Heffer delights audiences on his latest history book Sing As We Go: Britain Between The Wars
Listen to Timothy West and his wife Prunella Scales on his latest book Pru and Me: A Love Story, at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October 2023
Don McCullin speaks about his latest book Journeys across Roman Asia Minor at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October 2023
Michael Crick at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept on his latest book on Nigel Farage: One Party After Another
Jane Ridley speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept about her latest book on George V: Never A Dull Moment
Cleo Watson at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept about her latest novel Whips
Listen to Frederic Raphael speaking about his latest book Last Post at The Oldie Literary Lunch 1st August 2023
Listen to Sir Ferdinand Mount speaking about his latest book on leaders called Big Caesars and Little Caesars
Alan Judd speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest spy thrilled Queen & Country
Listen to Lady Antonia Fraser speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch 18th July 2023
Listen to Joshua Levine at The Oldie Literary Lunch 18 July 2023
Listen to Angela Levin speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 18th July 2023
Listen here to Glenda Jackson who sadly died today aged 87 at The Oldie of The Year Awards in 2017
Listen to Edward Stourton speaking about Confessions at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th June 2023
Sir Anthony Seldon speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 13th June 2023
Polly Toynbee speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 13th June 2023
Harry Mount interviews Mary Kenny and A N Wilson at The Agenda Festival
Lady Glenconner speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 9th May 2023 about her latest book "Whatever Next?"
Chris Mullin speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch 9th May about his latest book "Didn't You Used To Be Chris Mullen?"
Henry Dimbleby & Jemima Lewis about their new book Ravenous
Craig Brown has everyone in stitches at The Oldie Literary Lunch in Hastings on 26th April 2023
Harry Mount speaking about his latest book Et Tu, Brute? at Fairlight Hall, Hastings The Oldie Literary Lunch
Giles and Mary speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch Hastings
Sasha Swire speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch about her book Diary of an MP's Wife Tuesday 14th March
Harry Mount speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch in Dorset 14th March 2023
Andrew Lownie speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch in Dorset 14th March 2023
Prue Leith on Bliss on Toast at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th December 2022
Craig Brown on Haywire at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th December 2022
Simon Heffer speaking about Chips Channon at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Dec
The Oldie of The Year Awards 2022 presented by Gyles Brandreth
A N Wilson speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his autobiography Confessions
Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan speak about their latest book Kings & Queens
Lucy Lethbridge speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch Nov 15th about Tourists
ALL SPEAKERS at The Oldie Literary Lunch Nov 15th: Lucy Lethbridge, Peter Snow and A N Wilson
The Oldie Gang Show with Andrew Lownie, David Starkey and Dame Eileen Atkins
Jeffrey Archer - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 10
The Right Honourable Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, 158th Speaker of the House of Commons - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 9
Mary Churchill's diaries with her daughter Emma Soames - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 8
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 7
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 6
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 5
The 100th Anniversary of The Royal British Legion - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 4
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 3
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 2
Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 1
Tea for Two - Madeline Smith, The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
A toast to brilliant actor Robert Bathurst - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
Loyd Grossman, Renaissance man - Oldie Podcast
Harry Bucknall with BSO Hollywood Classics conductor Pete Harrison - The Oldie Podcast
Hunter Davies, the Fleet Street legend with Harry Bucknall - The Oldie Podcast
Maureen Lipman, It's Great to Be a Dame - Oldie Podcast
The Oldie Podcast: BSO Christmas Crackers Concert is in its 5th decade - Harry Bucknall
Craig Brown and Friends – a Hilarious Oldie Podcast
Barry Cryer, Comedy Legend – Oldie Podcast
William Wordsworth at 250
Ed West: 'All conservatives are pessimists'
Does Homer really matter?
50 years on Fleet Street – Mary Kenny
Sinclair McKay describes the horror of the Dresden firebombing
Dan Cruickshank – a Londoner through and through
Lord Tugendhat explains the English origins of Nazism
Rupert Bear – Gyles Brandreth's hero
Why Trump will win
Who will be the Democratic candidate for President?
Are criminals responsible for their actions?
Taking a Walk with Patrick Barkham
Oberammergau – the town that promised God a play
I loved Kenny with all my everything
Louis XIV – the king who loved war too much
Gyles Brandreth on Dancing by the Light of the Moon
Victoria Hislop on Those who are loved
Philip Mansel on King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
Not the Nine O'Clock News recalled 40 years on
Venus & Aphrodite: History of a Goddess by Bettany Hughes
Scott of the Antarctic: hero or bungler?
Lloyd George nearly lost us the war
A Sparrow's Life as Sweet as Ours
What were the three traumas of London's history?
Troy – the cradle of a thousand heroes and heroines
34: Gamesmanship and other Potterisms
Wiliam Dalrymple – The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Was Maggie Thatcher a prude? asks Charles Moore
A N Wilson on the man who saved the Monarchy
33: Peter Hitchens: we won the war, or did we?
32: October Issue: Abbey Road – The Beatles's Best Studio Album?
31: October Issue: Dominic Green's Downton Abbey Suit
September Issue: Toffs vs Servants in Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
30: David Kynaston and Francis Green on Britain's educational apartheid
29: Douglas Carswell's manifesto for optimism
29: Anne de Courcy on Chanel's saucy secrets
28: August Issue: Granny, I hardly knew you
27: Tim Waterstone on how he built his brand
Antony Beevor on the British obsession with Operation Market Garden
26: Anna Pasternak speaks about the kindhearted Wallis Simpson
25: July Issue: Barry Cryer on 60 years in comedy
25: Why did Lord Carrington hate Boris Johnson?
24: Rachel Kelly outlines the three things that helped her beat depression
23: Chris Mullin on the prescience of A Very British Coup
22: Sara Lodge on singing Edward Lear
21: Adrian Tinniswood on the Queen Mother's steady drinking
20: Getting through D-Day – Giles Milton talks Eisenhower, Pegasus Bridge and Rommel
19: Giles Milton on a commando's unexpected encounter with Erwin Rommel
19: Robert Hutton on MI5's most secret agent: Jack King
18: Christopher Howse on the angriest landlord in London
Prince Albert's Coburg – 'the stud farm of Europe'
Prue Leith on Bake Off, Bomb scares and Explosive Marmalade
Hugo Vickers on the unusual girth of the Queen's great-grandmother
17: Matthew Sturgis on the celebrity of Oscar Wilde
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais remember Ronnie Barker, Porridge and The Likely Lads
16: Look, no wrinkles – Mary Killen on the lazy facelift
15: Why Brian Clough swore at Motty
14: William Keegan on the relief of decimalisation
13: Lady Colin Campbell on the unbridled masculinity of Prince Philip
Oldie Keep Calm and Carry On Award winner Amanda Barrie on Carry On
12: Robert Hardman on Queen of the World at the Oldie Literary Lunch
11: Kenneth Baker on On The Seven Deadly Sins at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Gyles Brandreth on Have You Eaten Grandma? at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Nicholas Parsons turns 95
10: Miles Goslett on An Inconvenient Death at the Oldie Literary Lunch
10: January Issue: The Icy Thrills of Boxing Day at the Races
9: Andrew Morton on Wallis in Love at the Oldie Literary Lunch
8: Dan Snow on On this day in History at the Oldie Literary Lunch
7: Mark Mason on The Book of Seconds at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Adam Zamoyski on Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Andrew Roberts on Churchill: Walking with Destiny at the Oldie Literary Lunch
December Issue: Blue guides and the Greek islands
6: December Issue: Life was my Uni
5: Miranda Seymour on In Bryon's Wake at the Oldie Literary Lunch
4: Giles Wood and Mary Killen on The Diary of Two Nobodies at the Oldie Literary Lunch
4: Dan Cruikshank on Skyscrapers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
3: Tony Adams on Sober: Football. My Story. My Life. at the Oldie Literary Lunch
1: November Issue: Let's Get Real About Food
1: November Issue: I Once Kissed Roger Moore
2: Filming if...
October Issue: Kenneth Cranham on Harold Pinter
October Issue: Sara Wheeler on Anton Chekov's Gardens
1: September Issue: Ask Virginia
1: Dame Jenni Murray on A History of Britain in 21 Women at the Oldie Literary Lunch
1: Andrew Gimson on Gimson's Prime Ministers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
1: Ferdinand Mount on Prime Movers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
1: September Issue: Soho's Golden Age
1: Miles Goslett on An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered up the David Kelly Affair at the Oldie Literary Lunch
1: Leanda de Lisle on The White King: The Untold Story of Charles I at the Oldie Literary Lunch
1: D. J. Taylor on Rock and Roll is Life: A Novel at the Oldie Literary Lunch
An extract from Sam Leith at the Oldie Journalism Course
An extract from Mary Kenny at the Oldie Journalism Course
August Issue: Rules Britannia
Stanley Johnson on Kompromat
Christopher Somerville on The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
Anna Pasternak on Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
5: July issue: Roger Lewis looks back on his journalism and books
4: Charles Duff on Charley's Woods at the Oldie Literary Lunch
3: Angela Levin on Harry: Conversations with the Prince at the Oldie Literary Lunch
2: Lady Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount at the Oldie Literary Lunch
July Issue: Hancock's Last Hours
Paul Atterbury and Marc Allum, Hugo Vickers and John Tusa at the April 2018 Literary Lunch
Extract from the Oldie Computer course with Matthew Webster
May issue: Tom Hodgkinson on being idle
May issue: Back to the Falklands
Spring issue: Those magnificent men of the RAF
Spring 2018 issue: Fat pride is fat-headed
Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan and Simon Jenkins at the March 2018 Literary Lunch
April 2018 issue: Paddy the Great, king of Greece
April 2018 issue: I wrote a Ladybird book
The Oldie of the Year Awards 2018
Matthew Fort on Summer in the Islands, The Oldie Literary Lunch
The Making of the British Landscape by Nicholas Crane at The Oldie Literary Lunch
Splash! by Stephen Glover at The Oldie Literary Lunch
March 2018 issue: My Orwellian holidays
March 2018 issue: Hit or miss? It's a fine line
February 2018 issue: 1940s vs 1970s fashion
February 2018 issue: Behind the scenes at the British Museum
January 2018 issue: Christmas with Jimi Hendrix
January 2018 Issue: Rachel Johnson and Nicky Haslam's ruthless guide to Christmas parties
Princes Michael of Kent, A Cheetah's Tale at The Oldie Literary Lunch
Gyles Brandreth on Christmas at The Oldie Literary Lunch
Donald Trelford, Shouting in the Street The Oldie Literary Lunch
December 2017 issue: Sixty seconds that hooked the nation
December 2017 issue: Tanya Gold's lucky trip to hospital wonderland
The Oldie Literary Lunch: Mark Mason on Question Time
Oldie Literary Lunch, Mary & Giles Wood, The Diary of Two Nobodies
Oldie Literary Lunch The Village News: The Truth Behind England's Idyll by Tom Fort at The Oldie Lunch
November 2017 Issue: Peter Cook at 80
Oldie Literary Lunch: John Julius Norwich, Four Princes
Oldie Literary Lunch: Francis Beckett, Fascist in the Family
Oldie Literary Lunch: Chris Mullin, Hinterland
Oldie of the Year Awards 2017: Mary Cameron, ‘Mother Knows Best’ award
Oldie of the Year Awards 2017: Glenda Jackson our ‘Oldie of the Year'
OLDIE OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2017
Oldie Literary Lunch: Francis Beckett, 1956: The Year That Changed Britain
Oldie Literary Lunch: Elisabeth Luard, Squirrel Pie
Oldie Literary Lunch: Valerie Grove on JB Priestley
Oldie Literary Lunch: Tom Bower on Tony Blair
Oldie Literary Lunch: Anna Sebba on Les Parisiennes
Oldie Literary Lunch: Philip Eades on Evelyn Waugh
Oldie Literary Lunch: Gary Sheffield on Douglas Haig
Oldie Literary Lunch: Anna Pavord on Landskipping
Oldie Literary Lunch: Bob Marshall Andrews on The Lost Diaries of Samuel Pepys
Oldie Literary Lunch: Founder & Editor Tom Hodgkinson on The Idler
Oldie Literary Lunch: Simon Sebag-Montefiore on the Romanovs
Oldie Literary Lunch: Brigid Keenan, Full Marks for Trying
Oldie Literary Lunch: Barry Cryer on his Comedy Scrapbook
Oldie Literary Lunch: Juliet Nicolson on A House Full of Daughters
Oldie Literary Lunch: Vince Cable on The World Economy
Oldie Literary Lunch: Nicholas Parsons, Welcome to Just a Minute
Oldie Literary Lunch: Lucy Lethbridge on Spit and Polish
Oldie Literary Lunch: Jeremy Lewis on David Astor
Oldie Literary Lunch: Quentin Letts on The Speaker’s Wife
Oldie Literary Lunch: Bel Mooney on Life Lines
Oldie Literary Lunch: Andrew Lownie on Guy Burgess
Oldie of the Year: Gyles Brandreth, Olivia De Havilland, Jeremy Hutchison, Germaine Greer, Timothy West, Prunella Scales and more
Oldie of the Year Awards: Olivia de Havilland’s acceptance speech
Oldie Literary Lunch: Adam Sisman on John Le Carré
Oldie Literary Lunch: Humphrey Barton on Menuhin
Oldie Literary Lunch: Jonathan Dimbleby on The Battle of the Atlantic
Oldie Literary Lunch: Paul Willetts on Renezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms
Oldie Literary Lunch: Jonathan Fenby on Modern France
Oldie Literary Lunch: Gyles Brandreth on Wordplay
Oldie Literary Lunch: Sir Ian Kershaw on To Hell & Back
Oldie Literary Lunch: Barry Cryer and his Parrot Jokes
Oldie Literary Lunch: Tom Holland on the House of Caesar
Oldie Literary Lunch: Flora Fraser, The Washingtons
Oldie Literary Lunch: Alison Weir on The Lost Tudor
Oldie Literary Lunch: Piers Paul Read, Scarpia
Oldie Literary Lunch: Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher
Oldie Literary Lunch: Patrick Bishop on The Cooler King
Oldie Literary Lunch: Stephen Clarke, How the French Won Waterloo
Oldie Literary Lunch: Loyd Grossman Benjamin West on the Struggle to be Modern
Oldie Literary Lunch: Kwasi Kwarteng on Thatcher’s Trial
Oldie Literary Lunch: Blake Morisson on Shingle Street
Rye Arts Festival: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Lewis Carroll
Rye Arts Festival: Oliver Kamm, Accidence will Happen
Rye Arts Festival: Harry Mount, In the Footsteps of Odysseus
Oldie Literary Lunch: Valerie Grove, The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee
Oldie Literary Lunch: Helen Lederer, Losing It
Oldie Literary Lunch: Ferdinand Mount, The Tears of the Rajas
Oldie Literary Lunch: Wendy Cope, Life, Love and The Archers
Oldie Literary Lunch: Terry Waite, The Voyage of the Golden Handshake
Oldie Literary Lunch: Andy McNab, State of Emergency
Oldie Literary Lunch: Anthony Sattin, The Young T E Lawrence
Oldie Literary Lunch: Mark Lawson and Antonia Fraser in discussion
Oldie Literary Lunch: Andrew Roberts, Napoleon the Great
Oldie Literary Lunch: Sarah Wheeler on O, My America!
Oldie Literary Lunch: Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney
Oldie of the Year Awards: Sir Roger Bannister, Michael Buerk, Lord Falconer, Ian Lavender, Bridget Riley and Ken Dodd
Oldie Literary Lunch: Valerie Grove on Lynn Barber’s a Curious Career
Oldie Literary Lunch: Alan Johnson, Please Mister Postman
Oldie Literary Lunch: David Kynaston, Modernity Britain