Oldie Podcast - War Poems - Kenneth Cranham recites Dulce Et Deocrum est by Wilfred Owen
War Poems, recited by Kenneth Cranham, specially for The Oldie. Listen to Kenneth reciting Dulce Et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen. Kenneth Cranham was born towards the end of the Second World War on 12 December 1944. Kenneth Cranham, Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor, is best known for Oliver! in 1968 and more recent films such as Layer Cake in 2004.
2m Oct 30, 2024
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Oldie Podcast - Algy Cluff in conversation with Harry Mount on Lord Lucan
50 years after the Lord Lucan murder, click here to listen to Algy Cluff talk about his memories of Lucan – and the grisly truth about who killed the family nanny, Sandra Rivett. On 7 November 1974, Lord Lucan vanished without a trace. Listen here to Algy Cluff in conversation with Harry Mount, Editor of The Oldie. Algy, whose real name is John Gordon Cluff was a serial oil and gas entrepreneu...
12m Oct 30, 2024
12m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Pam Ayres on Doggedly Onward
Pam Ayres recounted poetry that slipped off her tongue. It is no wonder that she is one of Britain's most famous poets. The Oldie Literary Lunch was held on 22nd October 2024 at The National Liberal Club and kindly sponsored by Kirker Holidays. All photos by Neil Spence Photography.
17m Oct 24, 2024
17m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Henry Blofeld on Sharing My Love of Cricket
Our most loved and famous cricket commentator tells The Oldie Literary Lunch on 22nd October 2024 about his love of the game and his worry for the future of cricket and the T20 franchise. The Oldie Literary Lunch was held on 22nd October 2024 at The National Liberal Club and kindly sponsored by Kirker Holidays. All photos by Neil Spence Photography.
13m Oct 24, 2024
13m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording- Bill Wyman sheds a tear in an emotional recount of Billy In The Wars
Headlines were made as ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman aged 88 broke into tears as he remembered foraging for food in the war. The Oldie Literary Lunch was held on 22nd October 2024 at The National Liberal Club and kindly sponsored by Kirker Holidays. All photos by Neil Spence Photography.
19m Oct 24, 2024
19m
Giles and Mary in conversation Harry Mount at The Dorchester Literary Festival
The Oldie magazine sponsored The Dorchester Literary Festival which ran for several days in the beautiful and historic market town. Harry Mount, Editor of The Oldie, interviewed Giles Wood and Mary Killen, Britain's most favourite couple. Listen here to what they had to say.
51m Oct 24, 2024
51m
Oldie Podcast - Lady Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount
At 92, the Oldie's new columnist, historian Lady Antonia Fraser, has written a new book, Patchwork Pieces. She tells Harry Mount all about Guy Fawkes – and the sex life of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
19m Oct 10, 2024
19m
Oldie Podcast - Anne Robinson in conversation with Harry Mount
At 80, Anne Robinson tells Harry Mount about facelifts, drinking and Robert Maxwell
34m Sep 23, 2024
34m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Patrick Bishop: Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory
13m Sep 16, 2024
13m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sonia Purnell on Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power
14m Sep 16, 2024
14m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - William Dalrymple on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
16m Sep 16, 2024
16m
The Oldie Literary Lunch Recording 10th September 2024
43m Sep 12, 2024
43m
Oldie Literary Recording - Philippa Forester on Wild Woman
Nature guru Philippa Forester spent years in America with bears and wolves. She now returns to the UK writing about Wild Woman and told The Oldie Literary Lunch about her journey. The Literary Lunch was held at The National Liberal Club on Tuesday 13th August, kindly sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers. Photos by Amelia Milne. Recordings by Tom Assheton.
13m Aug 15, 2024
13m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Mr Chelsea aka Paul Davis
Architect Paul Davis known as Mr Chelsea addressed The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 13th August 2024 at The National Liberal Club about his latest book, available to buy at RIBA, called 'Mr Chelsea: A Life in Rock n' Roll & Architecture From The Kings Road To Toyko'. The lunch was kindly sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers. Photos by Amelia Milne. Recordings by Tom Assheton.
14m Aug 15, 2024
14m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Helen Lederer on Not That I'm Bitter
Absolutely Fabulous Helen Lederer spoke The Oldie Literary Lunch on 13th August 2024 about her biography Not That I'm Bitter. The audience was in stitches as she spoke candidly about sex, fame and being a woman. The lunch was kindly sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers. Photos by Amelia Milne and recordings by Tom Assheton.
16m Aug 15, 2024
16m
Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Dame Zandra Rhodes on Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects
Dame Zandra Rhodes brought colour to The Oldie Literary Lunch on 23rd July 2024 speaking to the audience about her biography Iconic. The lunch was kindly sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers. Photos by Neil Spence and recordings by Tom Assheton.
6m Jul 25, 2024
6m
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
22m
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