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Radio Oldie

The Oldie magazine’s podcast featuring discussion and debate around the lead features in the latest magazine, plus live recordings from our famous Literary Lunches. Presented by Harry Mount.

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31:59

Oldie Podcast - John Standing in conversation with...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/17

Sir John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet (born 16 August 1934), known professionally as John Standing, is an English actor. Standing is best known for roles in the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh, and for leading parts in many plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest and Private Lives with Maggie Smith. John Standing has appeared in major roles on television, including: The First Churchills (1969), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), The Choir

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33:55

Oldie Podcast – Stephen Fry in conversation with...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/16

Stephen Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. Fry first came to prominence as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. In 1986-1989 Fry starred in Blackadder. Odyssey completes his Greek Myths series in marvellous fashion. . . Fry, a born storyteller, succeeds again in making the ancient stories accessible, gently modernising the language and dotting his journey with explanatory and often amusing

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33:55

Oldie Podcast - Stephen Fry in conversation with...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/16

Stephen Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. Fry first came to prominence as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. In 1986-1989 Fry starred in Blackadder. Odyssey completes his Greek Myths series in marvellous fashion. . . Fry, a born storyteller, succeeds again in making the ancient stories accessible, gently modernising the language and dotting his journey with explanatory and often amusing

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9:41

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sam Leith - 10th...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/12

Listen to Sam Leith on The Haunted Wood, A History of Childhood Reading.Sam was speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 10th December 2024. Sponsored by Noble Caledonia. Photos by Neil Spence.

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11:01

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gyles Brandreth -...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/12

Gyles Brandreth: Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries & 7 Secrets of Happiness & Prose & Cons: The English Language in Just a Minute.

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22:57

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Stephen Fry

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/11

Stephen Fry speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 10th December on his latest book Odyssey. The lunch was sponsored by Noble Caledonia. Photos by Neil Spence.

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17:49

Thomas Pakenham on the Daredevil Tree-Hunters

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/09

Thomas Pakenham, 91, tells Harry Mount about his new book, The Tree Hunters. From the 17th century to the 19th century, British daredevils headed across the world to bring back seeds for arboretums back home. Among them was David Douglas, who brought back the Douglas Fir - and was gored to death by a wild bull in Hawaii in 1834. Thomas also recalls his own tree-hunting expeditions to bring back seeds from Tibet to his house, Tullynally, in County Westmeath, Ireland.

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32:12

Oldie Podcast - John Suchet in conversation with...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/12/02

John Suchet is an English author, television news journalist and presenter of classical music on Classic FM. He is a huge fan of Beethoven, writing 8 books on the composer. Suchet's journalistic career began when he worked as a graduate trainee at the Reuters news agency in 1967 and later joined the BBC News a sub-editor for the Nine O'Clock News from 1970 to 1971. Suchet worked at ITN as a scriptwriter/sub-editor from 1972 and was a newsreader and reporter until his retirement from ITN in 2004

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30:00

Oldie Podcast - Don Black in conversation with...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/25

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.Don Black is one of England's best-known lyricists, famous for Diamonds Are Forever and other James Bond theme tunes that he wrote with John Barry. Don was born in 1938 in Hackney, the youngest of five children from Jewish-born immigrants from the Ukraine. Black has worked in the music industry for

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6:04

The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Mac accepts his...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/21

Stan ‘Mac’ McMurtry – Oldie Lead in his Pencil Award. By Quentin Letts Cartoonist Stan ‘Mac’ McMurtry says that, during his decades on Fleet Street, his duty has been to make news pages brighter ‘by putting in a laugh’. Ever-modest Mac, 88, undersells his genius. His drawings in the Daily Sketch, Daily Mail and, to this day, the Mail on Sunday have always done more than that. Since the 1960s they have humanised the news, reminding us that after every thermonuclear disaster there will be some

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8:02

The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024- Nanette Newman &...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/21

Nanette: "I had my 90th a few weeks ago. I woke up one morning and I didn’t feel 90 at all... I felt more like 104! It was one of those awful mornings with bills and all those terrible things that come in the mail. One of the other things in the mail was a letter from Gyles saying I was going to get this award. I was thrilled. I’m a big fan of the magazine. How should I say thank you… I thought of all those acceptance speeches on TV. People who say they have nothing prepared and then bring out 10

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3:11

The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Manette Baillie,...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/21

Manette Baillie, Oldie Flying Angel of the Year By Harry Mount This summer, Manette Baillie parachuted her way into the nation’s hearts as Britain’s oldest skydiver. At 102, Manette made her first ever jump, plunging from 13,000 feet up in the air over Beccles Airfield, Suffolk. Having served as a Wren in World War II, plucky feats of derring do were nothing new to Manette, of Benhall, Suffolk. “It was a bit scary. I must admit I just shut my eyes firmly – very firmly,” she said of the jump,

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3:07

The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Golden Oldie of...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/21

"Short speech. Short script. Act 1. Old. Act 2. Old fart. Act 3. Dead. Somewhere lurking between the acts The Oldie magazine, these awards... What an honour, thank you. I’m really overwhelmed. It’s great. Cut." Sponsored by Baillie Gifford Photos by Neil Spence Photography

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4:03

The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Christian Lamb,...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/21

"I just want to say thank you for the remarkable account of what I’ve done and so on and so forth and how marvellous are all the people here." Sponsored by Baillie Gifford Photo by Neil Spence Photography

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6:37

The Oldie of The Year Awards 2024 - Bill Wyman - The...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/21

"I’ve got a little thing written down... I feel very embarrassed. I’m very honoured to receive this but it's also strange to me to be here, as a poor working class kid from South London. I can only thank my grandma. She taught me everything. She taught me to write a diary, to scrapbook, the art of collecting things, to say the alphabet backwards. Anyone else? Someone’s nodding over there... (at the request of a wayward heckle Wyman does prove he can still say the alphabet backwards much to our

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29:37

Oldie Podcast - Hugo Vickers in conversation with...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/14

Hugo Vickers speaks to Harry Mount about his latest book on Clarissa: Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon.Our podcasts are sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

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15:53

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Jacqueline Wilson on...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/13

Dame Jacqueline Wilson tells The Oldie Literary Lunch how she wrote her first-ever sex scene. Think Again is her first adult book. The Oldie Literary Lunch took place on 12th November 2024 at The National Liberal Club, sponsored by Kirker Holidays and photos by Neil Spence photography.

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14:35

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - John Suchet on...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/13

Beethoven expert John Suchet tells The Oldie why he has written his eighth book on Beethoven and why this story is personal to him. The Oldie Literary lunch was held at The National Liberal Club on 12th November 2024, sponsored by Kirker Holidays. Photos by Neil Spence.

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11:34

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Bendor Grosvenor on...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/13

Listen and watch Bendor Grosvenor talking about The Invention of British Art at The Oldie Literary Lunch 12th November 2024. The lunch was sponsored by Kirker Holidays. Photos by Neil Spence Photography.

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39:31

Oldie Podcast - Craig Brown in conversation with...

Radio Oldie ·

2024/11/11

Craig Brown, the funniest man alive, tells Harry Mount about his latest book A Voyage Around The Queen. Listen here. The Oldie podcast is sponsored by Baillie Gifford

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