Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Ingrid Seward on My Mother & I: King Charles III
Ingrid Seward, Royal biographer and Editor-in-chief at Majesty magazine, addressed The Oldie Literary Lunch on 23rd July 2024 about King Charles III and his mother, with royal scoops and revelations, revealing that Princess Diana and Charles HAD been in love. Listen here! The lunch was kindly sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers. Photographs by Neil Spence and recordings by Tom Assheton.
15m Jul 25, 2024
15m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Helen McGinn, aka The Knackered Mother on Island of Dreams
Helen McGinn, wine host of Saturday Kitchen on BBC One, speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 23rd July 2024 about her latest novel Island of Dreams and all things wine. Photographs by Neil Spence Photography and the lunch was kindly sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers. Recordings by Tom Assheton.
11m Jul 25, 2024
11m
Oldie Podcast - Pattie Boyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Charlotte Metcalf is a journalist, editor, award-winning documentary film-maker and was co-presenter of the Break Out Culture podcast.   She is Supplements Editor and a frequent contributor at The Oldie. Pattie Boyd was the instantly recognisable ingenue face of the Sixties, photographed by David Bailey, Terence Donovan and many more.  She was catapulted to fame further by her high-profile mar...
22m Jul 02, 2024
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Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Richard Coles on Murder at the Monastery
The Oldie hosted a Literary Lunch in Salisbury at The Guildhall on Tuesday 11th June to raise money for the Salisbury Samaritans, a charity we closely support. The lunch was sponsored by our friends at Noble Caledonia River Cruises. Our guest speakers were Katie Hickman, Linda McDougall and Rev Richard Coles. Richard Coles is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England priest. App...
13m Jun 13, 2024
13m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Linda McDougall on Marcia Williams: The Life of Lady Falkender
The Oldie hosted a Literary Lunch in Salisbury at The Guildhall on Tuesday 11th June to raise money for the Salisbury Samaritans, a charity we closely support. The lunch was sponsored by our friends at Noble Caledonia River Cruises. Our guest speakers were Katie Hickman, Linda McDougall and Rev Richard Coles. Linda McDougall is a New Zealand-born journalist, television producer and author. She...
10m Jun 13, 2024
10m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Katie Hickman on Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
The Oldie hosted a Literary Lunch in Salisbury at The Guildhall on Tuesday 11th June to raise money for the Salisbury Samaritans, a charity we closely support. The lunch was sponsored by our friends at Noble Caledonia River Cruises. Our guest speakers were Katie Hickman, Linda McDougall and Rev Richard Coles. Katie Hickman is an English novelist, historian and travel writer. She was born in ne...
14m Jun 13, 2024
14m
Oldie Podcast - Rebecca Hossack in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Charlotte Metcalf is a journalist, editor, award-winning documentary film-maker and was co-presenter of the Break Out Culture podcast.   She is Supplements Editor and a frequent contributor at The Oldie. Rebecca Hossack is the Australian art gallerist known for introducing Aboriginal art to England and her beautiful Fitzrovia gallery.  She is both funny and outspoken about championing lesser-k...
19m Jun 13, 2024
19m
Oldie Podcast - Edward Burtynsky in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Charlotte Metcalf is a journalist, editor, award-winning documentary film-maker and was co-presenter of the Break Out Culture podcast.   She is Supplements Editor and a frequent contributor at The Oldie. Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian artist and photographer and award-winning film-maker. A recent major retrospective at London’s Saatchi Gallery showed his large format photographs, many vast, of...
17m Jun 12, 2024
17m
Oldie Podcast - Mary Killen in conversation with Tom Assheton
Tom Assheton is an editor, producer and presents the Bloody Violent History podcast.  His career spans time in the army, as a land agent and owner of a cigar and coffee company. Mary Killen is a very well-known and prolific journalist and the author of several books. She’s instantly recognisable today for being on Gogglebox with her husband Giles. She’s The Spectator’s agony aunt and a regular...
39m Jun 10, 2024
39m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gill Johnson on Love From Venice, her first book written aged 90 plus
Writing Love From Venice has "literally given me a new lease of life" – Gill Johnson speaking at The Oldie lunch Gill Johnson told The Oldie, 'I have never published a word in my life, never have I had any ambition to do so, so how did a over 90 year old non-celebrity first time author get to write a book?' Gill stayed seated and delivered a evocative speech about Love From Venice, her book f...
13m Jun 06, 2024
13m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Bloody Panico: Whatever Happened To The Tory Party
As the 5th July beckons, how topical that Geoffrey Wheatcroft spoke to The Oldie about 'Bloody Panico: Or, Whatever Happened to The Tory Party'. The election is more 'send in the clowns' than 'things can only get better'. Geoffrey retorted, 'I have never felt more gratitude to anyone than I do to Rishi Sunak, calling this election just as my book is published!' Liz Truss was due to be speakin...
14m Jun 06, 2024
14m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Doctor Daisy Dunn on The Missing Thread
When Liz Truss pulled out of The Oldie Literary Lunch, leading classicist author, Daisy Dunn, stepped in. Daisy, who wrote the Ladybird guide to Homer, has just written 'The Missing Thread', which is a new history of the ancient world through women. Daisy set the record straight that in no way was this a history, where she had shoehorned 'some girls into the grand narrative of ancient history...
11m Jun 06, 2024
11m
Oldie Podcast - John Humphrys in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Charlotte Metcalf is a journalist, editor, award-winning documentary film-maker and was co-presenter of the Break Out Culture podcast.   She is Supplements Editor and a frequent contributor at The Oldie. John Humphrys is the legendary BBC journalist who presented Radio Four’s Today for 30 years.  He talks about his Welsh upbringing, how Superman inspired him to become a journalist and what it ...
33m Jun 03, 2024
33m
Oldie Podcast - Charlotte Metcalf in conversation with Prue Leith for The Oldie
25m May 30, 2024
25m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Jane Tippett on Edward VIII - he was a "truly modern monarch" 14th May 2024
Wearing an elegant cream suit and American accent, almost remnant of Wallis Simpson, historian Jane admitted to The Oldie audience of the huge challenges, facing her when writing about Edward VIII. "There is no denying that the material I presented in Once A King paints a very different portrait of Edward VIII than the one that we have in recent years become all too familiar with" - a monarch ...
12m May 16, 2024
12m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Nicholas Shakespeare's favourite magazine? The Oldie, of course! Nicholas on Fleming: The Complete Man
Nicholas was flattered to be commissioned by the Fleming family to write this biography but also was daunted. He discovered Fleming was "a lot kinder" than he had first thought, although there were "enough women to fill the Albert Hall" that he had affairs with. Even though, he was a "cad, a bounder", kindliness was not a characteristic that Nicholas has associated with James Bond, but somethin...
15m May 16, 2024
15m
The Irony for Lady Anne Somerset speaking about Queen Victoria at The National Liberal Club
It was rather ironic that Lady Anne Somerset addressed The Oldie about her latest book on Queen Victoria, at The National Liberal Club, yesterday because as Gladstone said of Queen Victoria,"there is no greater Tory in the land!" "It's wonderful to be talking to you here today, the only thing that is perhaps a bit awkward is that the event is taking place in The National Liberal Club!" The cl...
13m May 16, 2024
13m
Twentieth Century Heroines - Podcast by Tom Assheton & James Jackson
Twentieth Century Heroines. 1.Citation  2. Edith Cavell  3. Maxine Elliott  4. Gertrude Bell  5. WW2 Operations  6. Ursula Graham Bower  7. MI9  a. Pat O’Leary Line b. Nancy Wake c. Dédé   d. Mary Lindell  8. Virginia Hall 9. Special Operations Executive  10. SOE Women a. Vera Atkins  b. Noor Khan  c. Violette Szabo  d. Odette Churchill  11. Bletchley Park  12. The Banka Island Massacre  13. C...
1hr 14m Apr 24, 2024
1hr 14m
Sinclair McKay reveals Winston Churchill's encounters at The Oldie Literary Lunch on April 9th 2024
Sinclair McKay reveals Winston Churchill's encounters at The Oldie Literary Lunch on April 9th 2024
13m Apr 10, 2024
13m
'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
'There is a sort-of link between my two books', Rick Stroud told The Oldie audience today, 'I have had an enormous amount of satisfaction trying to write about very, very brave women'. Rick's latest book 'I'm Not Afraid of Looking Into The Rifles' was sold to Publisher, Simon & Schuster on what would have been his late daughter Nell's 47th birthday (in 2020). 'There is a link to (my books), a...
13m Apr 10, 2024
13m
A Very Private School. Charles Spencer speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 9th April 2024
Charles Spencer recounted, to The Oldie Literary Lunch today, the stories of 24 boys who had been at Maidwell Hall in 1972 and the terrifying story of how the Headmaster's religion had affected them. The Headmaster told one boy that he was 'outraged that the boy's parents were getting divorced'. This was something that the boy was clearly struggling with. The Headmaster announced 'I think you ...
11m Apr 10, 2024
11m
The Great Escape - Oldie Podcast with Tom Assheton and James Jackson
To salute the 80th anniversary of the Great Escape and the recent article about POW Roger Mortimer by his son, Charlie Mortimer we present this discussion between Tom Assheton and James Jackson on Great Escapes – events that have captured the imagination for generations.  From the simplest adoption of disguise to the longest tunnels, both successful and failed attempts have entered the realm of...
1hr 41m Mar 27, 2024
1hr 41m
Harry Bucknall Podcast on the 80th Anniversary of Patrick Leigh-Femor capturing General Kreipe
Welcome to this special episode to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the capture of General Kreipe. One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan populat...
26m Mar 19, 2024
26m
Harry Mount about Oldie Tours interviewed by Tom Assheton
Harry Mount, Editor of The Oldie, speaks about Oldie Reader Tours and Barry Cryer's joke about Parrots
32m Mar 18, 2024
32m
Michael Mansfield KC speaking about Power In The People
Pictured here with war photography Don McCullin - photos by Neil Spence Photography and sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers
14m Mar 06, 2024
14m
Tom Hodgkinson on 30 Years of The Idler at The Oldie Literary Lunch 5th March 2024
Sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers
15m Mar 06, 2024
15m
Charles Glass on Soldiers Don't Go Mad at The Oldie Literary Lunch 5th March 2024
The lunch was sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers
14m Mar 06, 2024
14m
Join Huon Mallalieu and Kirsty Fergusson for a Festive Tour of the Low Countries 9th - 14th December, 2024
Tom Assheton interviews Huon Mallalieu about his forthcoming Oldie Reader trip to the Low Countries which is happening on 9th - 14th December, 2024. To book tickets please visit www.theoldie.co.uk and go to tab Courses & Tours. Huon will be hosting this tour with Kirsty Fergusson.
17m Feb 29, 2024
17m
David Kynaston at The Oldie Literary Lunch on A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-1965
14m Feb 14, 2024
14m
Henry Jefferies at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Feb on Vines In a Cold Climate
13m Feb 14, 2024
13m
Ysenda Maxtone-Graham on Jobs For The Girls at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Feb
12m Feb 14, 2024
12m
Roger Lewis on his latest book Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
7m Jan 25, 2024
7m
Robert Hardman talking at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
15m Jan 25, 2024
15m
Andrew Roberts speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch 23 Jan on his latest book Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
12m Jan 25, 2024
12m
Gyles Brandreth on Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait
Gyles delights and moves the audience at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 12 December about his friendship with our late Queen. His speech brought tears to most of the eyes in the room.
16m Dec 13, 2023
16m
Mary Beard delights The Oldie Literary Lunch on her latest book Emperor of Rome
Mary Beard delights The Oldie Literary Lunch on her latest book Emperor of Rome. The lunch was held at The National Liberal Club on Tuesday 12th December.
16m Dec 13, 2023
16m
The Duke of Beaufort on his memoir The Unlikely Duke at The Oldie Literary Lunch 12 Dec 2023
The Duke of Beaufort lit up yesterday's Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 12th December at The National Liberal Club with anecdotes about his privileged life. The Duke wrote his memoir in lockdown in Badminton with nothing else much to do but weekly estate meetings on covid-related matters. He said the problem is 'he rivals Sleeping Beauty' and is inherently lazy, but in lockdown with nothing el...
13m Dec 13, 2023
13m
Jilly Cooper on her latest bonkbuster Tackle at The Oldie's November Literary Lunch 2023
Jilly Cooper on her latest bonkbuster Tackle at The Oldie's November Literary Lunch 2023
10m Nov 20, 2023
10m
Michael Palin speaks at The Oldie Nov Literary Lunch about his latest book Great Uncle Harry
Michael Palin speaks at The Oldie Nov Literary Lunch about his latest book Great Uncle Harry
18m Nov 20, 2023
18m
Bob Cryer at The Oldie's Nov 2023 Literary Lunch on his father Barry Cryer
Bob Cryer at The Oldie's Nov 2023 Literary Lunch on his father Barry Cryer. Bob gives a hilarious account of his comedian father from his latest book Same Time Tomorrow?
15m Nov 20, 2023
15m
Simon Heffer delights audiences on his latest history book Sing As We Go: Britain Between The Wars
Simon Heffer tells The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October, about Britain between the wars, and in great detail about Neville Chamberlain who was once perceived to be a Nazi sympathiser but actually did some great reform work for Britain. We hear about Gracie in the film Sing As We Go, a must see spectacle showing the work houses of the time. Listen here to learn more and to hear the w...
15m Oct 18, 2023
15m
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
The sweetest couple Timothy West and Prunella Scales were interviewed by The Oldie's Editor Harry Mount at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October. We hear about Timothy and Shakespeare, we hear about great canal journeys and a love for his wonderful wife, the Queen of Faulty Towers.
10m Oct 18, 2023
10m
Don McCullin speaks about his latest book Journeys across Roman Asia Minor at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October 2023
Barnaby Rogerson introduces the legendary photographer Don McCullin on his latest book showing back and white photographs of Roman Asia Minor. Barnaby quotes William Dalrymple who was a co-author on this amazing book. Listen to hear incites in to Don's life experiences and work
13m Oct 18, 2023
13m
Michael Crick at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept on his latest book on Nigel Farage: One Party After Another
14m Sep 11, 2023
14m
Jane Ridley speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept about her latest book on George V: Never A Dull Moment
12m Sep 11, 2023
12m
Cleo Watson at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept about her latest novel Whips
9m Sep 11, 2023
9m
Listen to Frederic Raphael speaking about his latest book Last Post at The Oldie Literary Lunch 1st August 2023
Listen to Frederic Raphael speaking about his latest book Last Post at The Oldie Literary Lunch 1st August 2023
12m Aug 03, 2023
12m
Listen to Sir Ferdinand Mount speaking about his latest book on leaders called Big Caesars and Little Caesars
Listen to Sir Ferdinand Mount speaking about his latest book on leaders called Big Caesars and Little Caesars at The Oldie's Literary Lunch on 1st August 2023 at The National Liberal Club
16m Aug 03, 2023
16m
Alan Judd speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest spy thrilled Queen & Country
Alan Judd speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest spy thrilled Queen & Country
12m Aug 03, 2023
12m
Listen to Lady Antonia Fraser speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch 18th July 2023
Lady Antonia Fraser speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 18th July 2023 about her latest book Lady Caroline Lamb: a Free Spirit. At aged 90, Lady Antonia wowed the audience with her compelling account.
12m Jul 20, 2023
12m