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Lady Glenconner speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 9th May 2023 about her latest book "Whatever Next?"

Chris Mullin speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch 9th May about his latest book "Didn't You Used To Be Chris Mullen?"

Husband and wife team Henry Dimbleby and Jemima Lewis speak about their latest book Ravenous. Henry of Leon Restaurant fame talks about changing our eating and farming habits to save our planet for future generations.

The Oldie hosted a road show tour of Literary Lunches this year. Fairlight Hall in Hastings hosted a charity lunch in aid of the Conquest Hospital. Listen to Craig Brown's hilarious account of his latest book Haywire. 

Harry Mount speaking about his latest book Et Tu, Brute? at Fairlight Hall, Hastings The Oldie Literary Lunch

Giles and Mary speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch Hastings about their latest book - A Diary Of Two Nobodies

Sasha Swire speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch about her book Diary of an MP's Wife Tuesday 14th March

Harry Mount speaks about his book Et Tu, Brute: The Best Latin Lines Ever at The Oldie Literary Lunch in Dorset 14th March 2023

Andrew Lownie speaking about his book Traitor King at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 14th March 2023

PRUE LEITH ON HER LATEST RECIPE BOOK BLISS ON TOAST Our final speaker at The Oldie Literary Lunch was Prue Leith on her new cookery book, Bliss on Toast . Prue Leith is best known for The Great British Bake Off, but her greatest achievement in the room at The Oldie Literary Lunch, said Editor, Harry Mount, was for "writing a column for The Oldie Magazine". Harry introduced Prue, whose father made...

CRAIG BROWN ON HIS LATEST BOOK HAYWIRE Barry Humphries, Oldie columnist, described Craig Brown as an "extremely funny writer". Craig was the leading satirist for The Daily Telegraph, Mail and Mail on Sunday and the spoof diarist for Private Eye. He has then had an incredibly interesting second life writing biographical books: Ma'am Darling - a hilarious royal biography about Princess Margaret. and...

PROFESSOR SIMON HEFFER ON CHIPS CHANNON Our first speaker was Professor Simon Heffer, who has written biographies on, amongst others, Thomas Carlisle, Vaughan Williams, Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and as "most of us spent lockdown staring at the ceiling and avoiding people on walks", Simon achieved an extraordinary historical feat of a mammoth 3 volume collection of the political diaries of C...

A N WILSON delivered a startlingly honest and characteristically witty memoir of his youth entitled Confessions . His first autobiography is populated by a rich cast of characters from royalty to Oxford dons to journalists, and his speech provided the guests at the lunch with much humour

Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan speak about their latest book Kings & Queens at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Nov 15th at The National Liberal Club

The Oldie Literary Lunch took place on 15th November at The National Liberal Club. LUCY LETHBRIDGE gave a fascinating talk about her latest book Tourists defining the way the English went abroad to find themselves.  Holidaying was a new phenomena of the past two centuries and one which initially applied to the working classes. As Evelyn Waugh once said “Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved...

Harry Mount hosts the Oldie Gang Show with guests Andrew Lownie, David Starkey and Dame Eileen Atkins. Andrew Lownie reveals the true nature of the Duke of Windsor, the subject of his book, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . Historian and broadcaster, David Starkey, paints a dynamic portrayal of Henry VIII as the both pivotal to British history and the progenit...

​In this latest edition of the Oldie Podcast, Harry Bucknall talks to that master of story telling himself, Jeffrey Archer, about his new novel, Over My Dead Body which is a story of murder, revenge and betrayal; the fourth in the William Warwick series and another case for investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s rising star, who made his first appearance in Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles...

Prompted by the sad death of Richard Rogers, Giles and Mary discuss modern architecture, foreign versus domestic holidays and their Christmas plans @gilesandmary1 @oldiemagazine #podcast 

In this edition of The Oldie Podcast, Harry Bucknall talks to The Right Honourable Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, 158th Speaker of the House of Commons, whose role is delivering the daily business of politics. It is he who has to restore the reputation and  traditional values expected of those we elect to represent us and it is he who has to ensure that MPs can go about their daily business unhindered, saf...

In this week's discussion of the news headlines, Giles and Mary discuss lying, Patricia Highsmith's murder theory and the robin's territorial wars @gilesandmary1 @oldiemagazine #podcast 

​ Mary Churchill’s War, the Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughte r, were published at the end of September.  In the diaries, the self effacing Mary Soames described herself as " a discontented served-up fat ATS officer who compared unfavourably with Hitler’s Rhine maidens " – anything could be further from the truth, as those fortunate to meet her will bear testament to her warmth, grea...

In this week's broadcast, Giles and Mary discuss Meghan Markle, snogging and the overuse of the word 'crisis' @maryandgiles1 @oldiemagazine #podcast

In this week's Newsround, Giles and Mary discuss Jeremy Clarkson's new beer, the slanting shadows of winter sunlight and the difference between omicron and omega @oldiemagazine @gilesandmary1