21: Adrian Tinniswood on the Queen Mother's steady drinking
Adrian Tinniswood, author of Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household, speaks about the man who got Prince Albert killed, the steady drinking of the Queen Mother and what makes the sovereign different, at the Sandstone Ridge Festival's Oldie Literary Lunch.
12m May 22, 2019
12m
20: Getting through D-Day – Giles Milton talks Eisenhower, Pegasus Bridge and Rommel
Welcome to the Oldie's June Podcast. D-Day took place 75 years ago on the 6th June. It was the largest invasion in military history. 7,000 vessels, 156,000 personnel and 1,200 planes and gliders were involved. Historian and bestselling author of D-Day: The Soldiers' Story (https://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Day-Soldiers-Story-Giles-Milton/dp/1473649048/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2_sspa?keywords=D-Day%3A+The+S...
22m May 14, 2019
22m
19: Giles Milton on a commando's unexpected encounter with Erwin Rommel
With commemorations for the 75th anniversary of D-Day just around the corner, we were delighted to welcome Giles Milton to our May lunch. His new book, D-Day: A Soldiers' Story charts the stories of the men and women who took part in the Normandy landings. At the lunch, he recounted the tale of a one-man raid on a Normandy beach, in May of 1944, which ended in a chance encounter with Erwin Ro...
12m May 09, 2019
12m
19: Robert Hutton on MI5's most secret agent: Jack King
During the Second World War, MI5 ran a secret operation to root out Nazi-sympathisers. At the Oldie's May literary lunch Robert Hutton spoke about the man in charge of it all. The unsung hero: Eric Roberts. The full story is detailed in Hutton's new book, Agent Jack: MI5's secret Nazi Hunter.
10m May 09, 2019
10m
18: Christopher Howse on the angriest landlord in London
Christopher Howse speaks about the highs and lows of the golden days of Soho. Soho in the Eighties, his new book, is an anecdotal history of the strange and brilliant figures that populated Soho: from Jeffrey Bernard to Francis Bacon. Here he is speaking at the Oldie's May literary lunch.
17m May 09, 2019
17m
Prince Albert's Coburg – 'the stud farm of Europe'
Welcome to The Oldie's May podcast. William Cook, a regular contributor to The Oldie, the Spectator and the Independent, who has written books about Auberon Waugh and Peter Cook, speaks to The Oldie's Editorial Assistant, Ferdie Rous, about the German town of Coburg, where Prince Albert was born 200 years ago . At (22.37), we turned briefly to Auberon Waugh.
27m Apr 15, 2019
27m
Prue Leith on Bake Off, Bomb scares and Explosive Marmalade
At the April lunch, Prue Leith spoke about her life in cooking, one of Paul Hollywood's meaner moments on Bake Off, bomb scares and explosive marmalade. Her book, Prue: My All-Time Favourite Recipes, is out now. Leith's fellow speakers were Hugo Vickers (The Quest for Queen Mary) and Matthew Sturgis (Oscar: A Life).
12m Apr 04, 2019
12m
Hugo Vickers on the unusual girth of the Queen's great-grandmother
Hugo Vickers on The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy, which he edited. He spoke about the book's 60-year journey to publication, James Pope-Hennessy's inimitable style and the understated way to describe large royals. Vickers's fellow speakers were Prue Leith (Prue: My All-Time Favourite Recipes) and Matthew Sturgis (Oscar: A Life).
8m Apr 04, 2019
8m
17: Matthew Sturgis on the celebrity of Oscar Wilde
At the April Literary Lunch, Matthew Sturgis spoke about his new book, Oscar: A Life.
13m Apr 04, 2019
13m
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais remember Ronnie Barker, Porridge and The Likely Lads
Welcome to the Spring podcast of The Oldie magazine. Harry Mount speaks to the great Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who have written a terrific cover piece about Ronnie Barker, who would have been 90 this year, and Porridge. Other great news is that two lost episodes of The Likely Lads have been rediscovered along with the feature film The Likely Lads from 1976.
39m Mar 14, 2019
39m
16: Look, no wrinkles – Mary Killen on the lazy facelift
Mary Killen has no time for the knife, the exercises or the headstands. Instead, she lies back and tries the facelift for the lazy – and it works
13m Feb 19, 2019
13m
15: Why Brian Clough swore at Motty
John Motson speaks about his new book, World Cup Motty: My World Cup Stories at The Oldie's February Literary Lunch. He remembers the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, an unnerving encounter with Brian Clough and his brief flirtation with Greco-Roman wrestling.
18m Feb 12, 2019
18m
14: William Keegan on the relief of decimalisation
William Keegan, the former Economics Editor of the Observer, speaks on his book, Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit. He approaches these nine crises with the experience of having met a few of the instigators. Listen to his brilliant anecdotes from his long career.
10m Feb 12, 2019
10m
13: Lady Colin Campbell on the unbridled masculinity of Prince Philip
Lady Colin Campbell speaks about her new book, The Queen's Marriage at The Oldie's February Literary Lunch. Her amusing anecdotes, matched by her impeccable sources, give a brilliant insight into the marriage of our brilliant Queen Liz and her boat-rocking husband Prince Philip.
10m Feb 12, 2019
10m
Oldie Keep Calm and Carry On Award winner Amanda Barrie on Carry On
Oldie editor Harry Mount talks to Oldie of the Year Amanda Barrie about her Carry On experiences: from her supporting role in Carry On Cabby (1963) to her triumphant turn as Cleopatra, a year later.
40m Jan 30, 2019
40m
12: Robert Hardman on Queen of the World at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Robert Hardman on Queen of the World
12m Dec 14, 2018
12m
11: Kenneth Baker on On The Seven Deadly Sins at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Lord Baker on On The Seven Deadly Sins
14m Dec 14, 2018
14m
Gyles Brandreth on Have You Eaten Grandma? at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Gyles Brandreth on Have You Eaten Grandma?
15m Dec 14, 2018
15m
Nicholas Parsons turns 95
Nicholas Parsons talks to Harry Mount at the Gibraltar Literature Festival
17m Nov 26, 2018
17m
10: Miles Goslett on An Inconvenient Death at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Miles Goslett on An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair
18m Nov 26, 2018
18m
10: January Issue: The Icy Thrills of Boxing Day at the Races
Harry Mount talks to Brough Scott – celebrated racing presenter, winning jockey in over a hundred races and a Kempton Park veteran – about the King George VI steeplechase and the perils of winter riding.
48m Nov 26, 2018
48m
9: Andrew Morton on Wallis in Love at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Andrew Morton on Wallis in Love
13m Nov 26, 2018
13m
8: Dan Snow on On this day in History at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Dan Snow on On this day in History
14m Nov 26, 2018
14m
7: Mark Mason on The Book of Seconds at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Mark Mason on The Book of Seconds
15m Nov 02, 2018
15m
Adam Zamoyski on Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Adam Zamoyski on Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
12m Nov 02, 2018
12m
Andrew Roberts on Churchill: Walking with Destiny at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Andrew Roberts on Churchill: Walking with Destiny
12m Nov 02, 2018
12m
December Issue: Blue guides and the Greek islands
Lucy Lethbridge talks to our editor Harry Mount about the world famous Blue Guides and the perceived difference between tourists and 'real' travellers.
17m Oct 31, 2018
17m
6: December Issue: Life was my Uni
Our editor, Harry Mount, interviews Nicky Haslam about the joy of having not been to university.
20m Oct 31, 2018
20m
5: Miranda Seymour on In Bryon's Wake at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Miranda Seymour on In Bryon's Wake
9m Oct 25, 2018
9m
4: Giles Wood and Mary Killen on The Diary of Two Nobodies at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Giles Wood and Mary Killen on The Diary of Two Nobodies
12m Oct 25, 2018
12m
4: Dan Cruikshank on Skyscrapers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Dan Cruikshank on Skyscrapers
16m Oct 25, 2018
16m
3: Tony Adams on Sober: Football. My Story. My Life. at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Tony Adams on Sober: Football. My Story. My Life.
12m Oct 25, 2018
12m
1: November Issue: Let's Get Real About Food
Lucy Deedes, the daughter of WF Deedes, Private Eye’s Dear Bill, remembers a childhood spent eating roadkill and deer butchered in the garden – before we all got so fussy about food.
25m Oct 02, 2018
25m
1: November Issue: I Once Kissed Roger Moore
Former Bond Girl Madeline Smith talks to Annabel Sampson about Roger Moore undressing her with a magnetic watch in 'Live and Let Die'. Madeline also talks about Bond Girls in the #MeToo climate, and why Peter Cook was the 'one that got away'.
28m Oct 02, 2018
28m
2: Filming if...
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of if… The Oldie screened Lindsay Anderson’s anti-establishment satire set in an English public school at the Soho's Curzon. David Wood – who played Johnny in the film – spoke to Valerie Grove, the Oldie's radio columnist, afterwards. Here is part of that conversation, followed by a few questions from the audience.
28m Sep 20, 2018
28m
October Issue: Kenneth Cranham on Harold Pinter
Ten years after Harold Pinter's death – and on the eve of a new season of his plays – actor Kenneth Cranham remembers his friend's advice on how to understand and act in his works
33m Sep 03, 2018
33m
October Issue: Sara Wheeler on Anton Chekov's Gardens
Our Digital Editor, Annabel Sampson, talks to Sara Wheeler about Anton Chekhov’s Russian garden, that has been copied in Devon after a blooming debut at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Chekhov’s work as a doctor was invigorated by a deep sympathy with the natural world. Listen here.
18m Aug 28, 2018
18m
1: September Issue: Ask Virginia
The Oldie’s Agony Aunt, the stand-up, novelist and columnist Virginia Ironside, opens up about solving reader conundrums, something she has done now for nearly 40 years. She airs her mixed feelings about celebrity agony aunts and the unreadable prose of some of her contemporaries. Our Digital Editor goes to her house in West London, to see Virginia and meet her cat.
27m Aug 08, 2018
27m
1: Dame Jenni Murray on A History of Britain in 21 Women at the Oldie Literary Lunch
They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. Jenni Murray presents the history of Britain as you've never seen it before, through the lives of twenty-one women who refused to succumb to the established laws of society, whose lives embodied hope and change, and who still have the power...
13m Aug 07, 2018
13m
1: Andrew Gimson on Gimson's Prime Ministers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Who is your favourite prime minister? Gimson has written a vivid account of the lives of PMs from Walpole to May. The former parliamentary sketchwriter for the Telegraph and biographer of Boris Johnson, Gimson is the dream guide to our First Lords of the Treasury. This talk was recorded at an Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpson's-in-the-Strand on July 17th 2018.
13m Aug 07, 2018
13m
1: Ferdinand Mount on Prime Movers at the Oldie Literary Lunch
The former head of Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit and former editor of the TLS will talk about his latest book, Prime Movers. It examines the political ideas of twelve great thinkers across the centuries, including Pericles, Jesus Christ and Edmund Burke. This talk was recorded at an Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpson's-in-the-Strand on July 17th 2018.
20m Aug 07, 2018
20m
1: September Issue: Soho's Golden Age
Christopher Howse recalls the heyday of London’s boozy artistic bohemia – from the Forties to the Eighties. In conversation with Harry Mount.
22m Aug 07, 2018
22m
1: Miles Goslett on An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered up the David Kelly Affair at the Oldie Literary Lunch
From the man who exposed the Jimmy Savile scandal – in The Oldie – comes a book on the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly in 2003. It remains one of the most shadowy episodes in recent British political history. This talk was recorded at an Oldie Literary Lunch as part of Buxton International Festival on July 7th 2018.
14m Aug 07, 2018
14m
1: Leanda de Lisle on The White King: The Untold Story of Charles I at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Drawing on lost royal letters from a closed archive, The White King introduces us to Charles I as the monarch at the heart of an epic tale: of populist politicians, the fall of the mighty, religious hatreds, civil war, the power of a new media, and a maligned queen. This talk was recorded at an Oldie Literary Lunch as part of Buxton International Festival on July 7th 2018.
13m Aug 07, 2018
13m
1: D. J. Taylor on Rock and Roll is Life: A Novel at the Oldie Literary Lunch
'Rock and Roll is Life' is a vastly entertaining, picaresque and touching novel inspired by the excess and trajectories of the great '60s and '70s supergroups, and of the tales brought back from the front line by a very special breed of Englishmen who made it big in the States as the alchemists and enablers, as well as the old making way for the new in the era of the baby boomers. At its heart ...
11m Aug 07, 2018
11m
An extract from Sam Leith at the Oldie Journalism Course
Sam Leith, literary editor of the Spectator, talks about 'How to Write a Book Review' and proffers wisdom on how to make a review 'really sing on the page' and why you should read a book armed with a pen.
7m Jul 10, 2018
7m
An extract from Mary Kenny at the Oldie Journalism Course
Mary enlightens course-goers, telling them that 'only a blockhead goes into journalism for money' in her session on 'How to Write a Column' – something she has been doing now, for the best part of 50 years.
8m Jul 10, 2018
8m
August Issue: Rules Britannia
Sophia Money-Coutts on modern manners: drinks at 6.30, dinner at 8.30 – and get married by 30. The former features director of Tatler talks tongue-in-cheek about the world of the magazine, and her new book The Plus One which is published on 9th August.
22m Jul 10, 2018
22m
Stanley Johnson on Kompromat
The father of our ‘Golden Oldies’ columnist, Rachel Johnson, has written a political thriller – an account of the skulduggery that might have gone on behind the scenes in the run-up to the EU referendum. Described as a ‘unique peek under the dirty doormat of politics’. He talks at Chichester Cathedral, an Oldie lunch in partnership with the Literary festival.
16m Jul 10, 2018
16m
Christopher Somerville on The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
A year of walks, inspired by a song – Dave Goulder’s The January Man. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks many of the 140,000 miles of footpaths across the British Isles. He talks at Chichester Cathedral, an Oldie lunch in partnership with the Literary festival.
9m Jul 10, 2018
9m