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The Royal British Legion, charged by Royal Charter with the continuing welfare, remembrance, representation and comradeship of all those who serve or have served in our Armed Forces, is the largest of the United Kingdom’s military charities. With the enduring symbol of the poppy at its core, it is a unique institution that sits deep in the fabric of our society, safeguarding  the principles for...
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Giles and Mary&#39;s Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 4
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In this week&#39;s Oldie Newsround, Giles Wood and Mary Killen discuss irritable drinkers, Britain&#39;s booming population of grey seals and the horrors of Patricia Highsmith
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Giles and Mary&#39;s Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 3
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In this week&#39;s Oldie Newsround, Giles Wood and his wife Mary Killen discuss what to do when your spouse lets you down, what to do in the country and how much money you need for an interesting life. 
@OldieMagazine @gilesandmary #podcast #gilesandmary
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Giles and Mary&#39;s Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 2
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In this week&#39;s Oldie Newsround, Giles and Mary reveal the best way to turn down a party invitation and how to build the perfect fire.
@Oldiemagazine @gilesandmary #gilesandmary #podcast
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Giles and Mary&#39;s Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 1
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In a new podcast series, welcome to the weekly round-up of the news by Oldie columnist Giles Wood and his wife, Mary Killen, the Spectator&#39;s agony aunt. This week, they discuss the Queen&#39;s genius at hitting the nail on the head; why William Morris wallpaper improves any house; and why George Harrison was the best of the Beatles. And Giles dreams of going magnet-fishing.
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Tea for Two - Madeline Smith, The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
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This month sees Harry Bucknall, with The Oldie Podcast tucked under his arm, venture out from under his lockdown rock in Dorset  to London and the refined elegance of Wilton’s Restaurant on Jermyn Street, in St James’s  – just the spot for a cup of tea with his guest, the actress Madeline Smith, who writes candidly  in the August edition of the magazine about working with that genius of stage a...
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A toast to brilliant actor Robert Bathurst - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
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Actor Robert Bathurst is perhaps best known as David Marsden in ITV’s long running hit series, Cold Feet but  since early days from  the Cambridge Footlights to  more recent forays like Keith Waterhouse’s  &quot;Jeffrey Bernard  Is Unwell&quot;, and Noel Coward’s &quot;Blithe Spirit&quot;, Robert Is no stranger to theatre. In this month’s podcast, he talks to Harry Bucknall,  about Toast of London, his love of nat...
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From punk to the Summer of Love to Rousseau, Loyd Grossman, whose article on 18th century wood carver Grinling Gibbons features in this month’s magazine,  talks about pretty much everything to Harry Bucknall in our latest interview with friends of The Oldie; their discussion, however, starts in  a South London garden in 1983, with Loyd talking to a  large black rabbit…
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Harry Bucknall with BSO Hollywood Classics conductor Pete Harrison - The Oldie Podcast
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This Saturday 13th March, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra invites The Oldie to the movies, as Harry Bucknall talks to Pete Harrison, guest conductor of the BSO as they play some of the great film scores, such as Ben Hur, Gone with the Wind and  The Great Escape, which  the orchestra will be performing for their Hollywood Classics concert  this Saturday at 7.30 pm.

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Hunter Davies, the Fleet Street legend with Harry Bucknall - The Oldie Podcast
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 At 85, Hunter Davies, buoyed by his younger girlfriend Clare, has received his covid jabs and is raring to go. The writer and Fleet Street legend tells Harry Bucknall what fuels him in this month’s podcast. The key ingredient is boredom, Hunter confesses that if he has even thirty minutes between projects, he goes mad. He’s also not too mad about England’s prospects in the World Cup! 
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Maureen Lipman, It&#39;s Great to Be a Dame - Oldie Podcast 
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Harry Bucknall covers Maureen&#39;s Damehood, Gyles Brandreth’s control of the remote on Celebrity Gogglebox, the perfect recipe for chips as concocted by Victoria Wood and Jack Rosenthal, the challenge facing theatre and live performance, the Labour Party, anti-semitism and the wider right to freedom of religion, finishing with an exhortation for The Oldie Lunch.
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34m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1610460225" data-format="short_date">Jan 12, 2021</span></span>
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<div class="fs-8 numeric-tabular text-nowrap text-muted phs">
34m
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26m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1607617229" data-format="short_date">Dec 10, 2020</span></span>
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<div class="fs-8 numeric-tabular text-nowrap text-muted phs">
26m
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55m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1605877358" data-format="short_date">Nov 20, 2020</span></span>
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55m
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<span class="numeric-tabular d-sm-none">
22m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1604857392" data-format="short_date">Nov 08, 2020</span></span>
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22m
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<span class="numeric-tabular d-sm-none">
25m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1584463856" data-format="short_date">Mar 17, 2020</span></span>
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25m
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30m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1584032198" data-format="short_date">Mar 12, 2020</span></span>
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30m
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21m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1583420883" data-format="short_date">Mar 05, 2020</span></span>
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21m
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36m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1582820399" data-format="short_date">Feb 27, 2020</span></span>
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36m
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<span class="numeric-tabular d-sm-none">
16m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1582817451" data-format="short_date">Feb 27, 2020</span></span>
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16m
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<span class="numeric-tabular d-sm-none">
18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1582817353" data-format="short_date">Feb 27, 2020</span></span>
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18m
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<span class="numeric-tabular d-sm-none">
15m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1582817261" data-format="short_date">Feb 27, 2020</span></span>
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15m
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<span class="numeric-tabular d-sm-none">
48m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1581615720" data-format="short_date">Feb 13, 2020</span></span>
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48m
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Why Trump will win
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James Fletcher, who&#39;s making a film, The Accidental President, talks to Harry Mount about the US election
Image: A souvenir-seller at the Trump rally in Manchester, New Hampshire. Credit: James Fletcher
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1581589514" data-format="short_date">Feb 13, 2020</span></span>
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Oldie Editor Harry Mount talks to Philip Delves Broughton, former New York Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and Ivo Dawnay, the former Washington bureau chief for the Daily Telegraph, about the Democratic Presidential primary in Iowa.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1581087949" data-format="short_date">Feb 07, 2020</span></span>
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Are criminals responsible for their actions?
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The Oldie&#39;s Ferdie Rous talks to author, former prison doctor and journalist Theodore Dalrymple.
Dalrympe tells us about the psychology of crime and addiction, his love of Wales and why he rummages through litter.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1581002136" data-format="short_date">Feb 06, 2020</span></span>
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Taking a Walk with Patrick Barkham
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Author, Oldie columnist and nature writer Patrick Barkham talks to Ferdie Rous, The Oldie&#39;s Editorial Assistant, about the Scottish Highlands, HS2 and the need for parents to stay in touch with nature
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1579780808" data-format="short_date">Jan 23, 2020</span></span>
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The Oldie&#39;s Editorial Assistant Ferdie Rous talks to journalist, author and travel writer WIlliam Cook about Oberammergau&#39;s world-renowned passion play.
Every 10 years, 500,000 people descend on this small Bavarian town to watch this extraordinary insight onto the seventeenth century.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1579174457" data-format="short_date">Jan 16, 2020</span></span>
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I loved Kenny with all my everything
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Actress and costar of the Kenny Everett Show, Cleo Rocos, tells Oldie Editor Harry Mount about her time working with Kenny Everett
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1578072251" data-format="short_date">Jan 03, 2020</span></span>
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Louis XIV – the king who loved war too much
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Ferdie Rous talks to Philip Mansel (http://www.philipmansel.com/) , co-founder of The Society for Court Studies (http://www.courtstudies.org/about-us.htm) and the author of King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (https://www.amazon.co.uk/King-World-Life-Louis-XIV/dp/1846145996/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=king+of+the+world&amp;qid=1577967760&amp;sr=8-1) , about the Sun King, Versailles and Louis&#39;s love of gar...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1577968058" data-format="short_date">Jan 02, 2020</span></span>
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Gyles Brandreth on Dancing by the Light of the Moon
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Gyles Brandreth talks about his new book, Dancing by the Light of the Moon, at the Oldie&#39;s Christmas lunch.
Learning poetry prevents dementia and helps improve language skills. Gyles Brandreth loves it
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1575566818" data-format="short_date">Dec 05, 2019</span></span>
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Victoria Hislop on Those who are loved
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Victoria Hislop presented her book, Those who are loved, at the Oldie&#39;s Christmas lunch.
The plot centres on Thenis, a woman born in Greece in the 1920s. It tells the story of Greece&#39;s twentieth century through the eyes of someone who lived it.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1575565967" data-format="short_date">Dec 05, 2019</span></span>
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Philip Mansel on King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
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Philip Mansel talks about his new book, King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV, at the Oldie&#39;s Christmas lunch.
Louis XIV was perhaps the most powerful person on earth in his day. But there is much more to him than the bon vivant and patron of the arts that we think we know.
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Not the Nine O&#39;Clock News recalled 40 years on
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Welcome to the Oldie podcast with Harry Mount, editor of The Oldie. John Lloyd explains the disastrous beginnings of the show and how the 1979 election saved it.
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Venus &amp; Aphrodite: History of a Goddess by Bettany Hughes
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Ferdie Rous, The Oldie&#39;s editorial assistant, speaks to celebrated historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes about the extraordinary history of Venus-Aphrodite, the goddess of love.
We reference a few paintings and sculptures throughout the podcast. 
Follow the links to find them.
Ishtar (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ishtar_vase#/media/File:Ishtar_vase_Louvre_AO17000.jpg) , Inanna...
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Scott of the Antarctic: hero or bungler?
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The Oldie&#39;s editorial assistant, Ferdie Rous, talks to acclaimed author and travel-writer Sara Wheeler about 200 years of Antarctic exploration.
Sara Wheeler&#39;s new book, Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mud-Stars-Travels-Pushkin-Geniuses/dp/0224098012) , published by Jonathan Cape, is out now.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1574163648" data-format="short_date">Nov 19, 2019</span></span>
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Lloyd George nearly lost us the war
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Simon Heffer speaks at an Oldie literary lunch about the Staring at God: Britain during the Great War.
He tells of the political class&#39;s inability to deal with the pressures of the war, how women were far more than the munitionettes of popular imagination and the extent of the cultural changes brought on by the war.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1573125549" data-format="short_date">Nov 07, 2019</span></span>
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A Sparrow&#39;s Life as Sweet as Ours
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John McEwen and Carry Akroyd talk about the bird-infested history of the Douglas Home family, the sex life of the Great Bustard and how best to portray birds in art.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1573125154" data-format="short_date">Nov 07, 2019</span></span>
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What were the three traumas of London&#39;s history?
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Simon Jenkins speaks at the Oldie Literary Lunch about the three traumas of London&#39;s history, how London was shaped by the free market and the city corporation and the importance of separating money from power.
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Troy – the cradle of a thousand heroes and heroines
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The Oldie&#39;s Editor Harry Mount talks to Times and Telegraph regular Hannah Betts about Troy, Homer and the mixed legacy of Heinrich Schliemann, who rediscovered it.
Troy: Myth and Reality is on at the British Museum between 21st November and 8th March 2020
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1571829480" data-format="short_date">Oct 23, 2019</span></span>
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34: Gamesmanship and other Potterisms
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Welcome to the Oldie podcast with Harry Mount, the editor of The Oldie.
This month we have a fantastic piece by Damian Thompson in the magazine about Stephen Potter, the inventor of Gamesmanship.
Damian is a senior journalist who has worked at the Telegraph and the Catholic Herald, and is the associate editor of the Spectator.
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Wiliam Dalrymple – The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
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Historian, travel-writer and bestselling author William Dalrymple, talks to the Oldie&#39;s Editorial Assistant Ferdie Rous about the rise of The East India Company, corporate violence and imperial nostalgia.
Dalrymple&#39;s new book, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, is published by Bloomsbury.
The book tells two stories: the rise of the East India Company and the fall of the...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1570719385" data-format="short_date">Oct 10, 2019</span></span>
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Was Maggie Thatcher a prude? asks Charles Moore
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Charles Moore talks about the third and last part of his biography of Margaret Thatcher at the Oldie&#39;s October lunch.
Moore talked about Thatcher&#39;s innocence of matters sexual, her run in with Monty Python and her meeting with Nelson Mandela.
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A N Wilson on the man who saved the Monarchy
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A N Wilson talks about Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved The Monarchy at the Oldie&#39;s October lunch.
We don&#39;t appreciate how much Britain owes Albert. From Albertopolis to the Great Exhibition and beyond, Wilson gives a fascinating insight into this short-lived royal.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1570715230" data-format="short_date">Oct 10, 2019</span></span>
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33: Peter Hitchens: we won the war, or did we?
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Welcome to this edition of the Oldie podcast.
 
Ferdie Rous, The Oldie&#39;s Editorial Assistant, speaks to author, commentator and Mail on Sunday columnist, Peter Hitchens, about his new book, The Phoney Victory: The World War II Delusion, which challenges some of our most deeply held beliefs about the Second World War, which began 80 years ago this month.
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32: October Issue: Abbey Road – The Beatles&#39;s Best Studio Album?
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Welcome to the Oldie’s October podcast.
 
50 years ago, on the 26th September, The Beatles’s Abbey Road album was first released. Today, we are joined by veteran-journalist and the Beatles’s only authorised biographer, Hunter Davies, who shadowed the Beatles as they wrote and recorded what many consider to be their best studio album.
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31: October Issue: Dominic Green&#39;s Downton Abbey Suit
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Oldie Editor, Harry Mount, speaks to Dominic Green – Life &amp; Arts Editor at the Spectator USA and regular contributor to The Oldie&#39;s Letter from America Column – about his new suit, which made from the same material used for Lord Grantham&#39;s valet in the new Downton Abbey film.
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September Issue: Toffs vs Servants in Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
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Welcome to the Oldie&#39;s September podcast with Harry Mount the editor of The Oldie and the actor, Simon Williams, who played Captain Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs and has written a piece about the class dynamic in Downton Abbey for the latest issue of The Oldie.
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30:  David Kynaston and Francis Green on Britain&#39;s educational apartheid
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What is the funding gap between private and state schools? Is there equal educational opportunity? How can we end Britain&#39;s educational apartheid?
David Kynaston and Francis Green ask the questions and they have an answer. They examine the impact of private schools on public life.
They spoke at the Oldie&#39;s August lunch about their book Engines of Privilege: Britain&#39;s Private School Problem, pub...
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29: Douglas Carswell&#39;s manifesto for optimism
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The world is getting better. Amid the doom and gloom of the news, things are actually pretty good, says Douglas Carswell.
In this talk, Carswell charts the history of human progress and explains how we have held ourselves back.
Douglas Carswell spoke at the Oldie&#39;s August lunch about his new book Progress vs Parasites: A Brief History of the Conflict That&#39;s Shaped Our World, published by Head o...
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29: Anne de Courcy on Chanel&#39;s saucy secrets
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What is the difference between Old Masters and old mistresses? Where did Chanel put her No. 5? Whose yacht was called the &#39;floating double-bed&#39;?
Anne de Courcy examines life in the French Riviera before and during the war.
Her new book, Chanel&#39;s Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d’Azur, 1930–1944, is published by W&amp;N.
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