Oldie of the Year Awards: Sir Roger Bannister, Michael Buerk, Lord Falconer, Ian Lavender, Bridget Riley and Ken Dodd

Oldie Literary Lunch: Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney

Oldie Literary Lunch: Sarah Wheeler on O, My America!

Oldie Literary Lunch: Terry Waite, The Voyage of the Golden Handshake

Oldie Literary Lunch: Helen Lederer, Losing It

Oldie Literary Lunch: Valerie Grove, The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee

Oldie Literary Lunch: Loyd Grossman Benjamin West on the Struggle to be Modern

Oldie Literary Lunch: Patrick Bishop on The Cooler King

Oldie Literary Lunch: Sir Ian Kershaw on To Hell & Back

Oldie Literary Lunch: Paul Willetts on Renezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms

Oldie of the Year Awards: Olivia de Havilland’s acceptance speech

Oldie Literary Lunch: Bel Mooney on Life Lines

Oldie Literary Lunch: Jeremy Lewis on David Astor

Oldie Literary Lunch: Simon Sebag-Montefiore on the Romanovs

Oldie Literary Lunch: Bob Marshall Andrews on The Lost Diaries of Samuel Pepys

Oldie Literary Lunch: Gary Sheffield on Douglas Haig

Oldie Literary Lunch: Valerie Grove on JB Priestley

Oldie Literary Lunch: Francis Beckett, 1956: The Year That Changed Britain

OLDIE OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2017

Oldie of the Year Awards 2017: Mary Cameron, ‘Mother Knows Best’ award

Oldie Literary Lunch: Chris Mullin, Hinterland

Oldie Literary Lunch The Village News: The Truth Behind England's Idyll by Tom Fort at The Oldie Lunch

Paul Atterbury and Marc Allum, Hugo Vickers and John Tusa at the April 2018 Literary Lunch

3: Angela Levin on Harry: Conversations with the Prince at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Anna Pasternak on Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago

1: D. J. Taylor on Rock and Roll is Life: A Novel at the Oldie Literary Lunch

1: Miles Goslett on An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered up the David Kelly Affair at the Oldie Literary Lunch

4: Giles Wood and Mary Killen on The Diary of Two Nobodies at the Oldie Literary Lunch

16: Look, no wrinkles – Mary Killen on the lazy facelift

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais remember Ronnie Barker, Porridge and The Likely Lads

Prince Albert's Coburg – 'the stud farm of Europe'

21: Adrian Tinniswood on the Queen Mother's steady drinking

22: Sara Lodge on singing Edward Lear

30: David Kynaston and Francis Green on Britain's educational apartheid

Was Maggie Thatcher a prude? asks Charles Moore

34: Gamesmanship and other Potterisms

Troy – the cradle of a thousand heroes and heroines

What were the three traumas of London's history?

A Sparrow's Life as Sweet as Ours

Not the Nine O'Clock News recalled 40 years on

Philip Mansel on King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV

Gyles Brandreth on Dancing by the Light of the Moon

Louis XIV – the king who loved war too much

I loved Kenny with all my everything

Taking a Walk with Patrick Barkham

Rupert Bear – Gyles Brandreth's hero

50 years on Fleet Street – Mary Kenny

Does Homer really matter?

William Wordsworth at 250

The Oldie Podcast: BSO Christmas Crackers Concert is in its 5th decade - Harry Bucknall

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 8

Oldie Literary Lunch: Anthony Sattin, The Young T E Lawrence

Oldie Literary Lunch: Wendy Cope, Life, Love and The Archers

Rye Arts Festival: Harry Mount, In the Footsteps of Odysseus

November 2017 Issue: Peter Cook at 80

March 2018 issue: Hit or miss? It's a fine line

May issue: Back to the Falklands

Extract from the Oldie Computer course with Matthew Webster

An extract from Sam Leith at the Oldie Journalism Course

Antony Beevor on the British obsession with Operation Market Garden

Wiliam Dalrymple – The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 4

Andrew Lownie speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch in Dorset 14th March 2023

Harry Mount speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch in Dorset 14th March 2023

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

Oldie Literary Lunch: Valerie Grove on Lynn Barber’s a Curious Career

Princes Michael of Kent, A Cheetah's Tale at The Oldie Literary Lunch

1: September Issue: Soho's Golden Age

3: Tony Adams on Sober: Football. My Story. My Life. at the Oldie Literary Lunch

13: Lady Colin Campbell on the unbridled masculinity of Prince Philip

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 1

Oldie Literary Lunch: Gyles Brandreth on Wordplay

Oldie of the Year Awards 2017: Glenda Jackson our ‘Oldie of the Year'

January 2018 Issue: Rachel Johnson and Nicky Haslam's ruthless guide to Christmas parties

1: Andrew Gimson on Gimson's Prime Ministers at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 9

Oldie Literary Lunch: David Kynaston, Modernity Britain

Oldie Literary Lunch: Alan Johnson, Please Mister Postman

Oldie Literary Lunch: Andrew Roberts, Napoleon the Great

Oldie Literary Lunch: Mark Lawson and Antonia Fraser in discussion

Oldie Literary Lunch: Ferdinand Mount, The Tears of the Rajas

Rye Arts Festival: Oliver Kamm, Accidence will Happen

Rye Arts Festival: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Lewis Carroll

Oldie Literary Lunch: Blake Morisson on Shingle Street

Oldie Literary Lunch: Stephen Clarke, How the French Won Waterloo

Oldie Literary Lunch: Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher

Oldie Literary Lunch: Piers Paul Read, Scarpia

Oldie Literary Lunch: Flora Fraser, The Washingtons

Oldie Literary Lunch: Tom Holland on the House of Caesar

Oldie Literary Lunch: Barry Cryer and his Parrot Jokes

Oldie Literary Lunch: Jonathan Fenby on Modern France

Oldie Literary Lunch: Jonathan Dimbleby on The Battle of the Atlantic

Oldie Literary Lunch: Humphrey Barton on Menuhin

Oldie Literary Lunch: Adam Sisman on John Le Carré

Oldie of the Year: Gyles Brandreth, Olivia De Havilland, Jeremy Hutchison, Germaine Greer, Timothy West, Prunella Scales and more

Oldie Literary Lunch: Andrew Lownie on Guy Burgess

Oldie Literary Lunch: Quentin Letts on The Speaker’s Wife

Oldie Literary Lunch: Lucy Lethbridge on Spit and Polish

Oldie Literary Lunch: Vince Cable on The World Economy

Oldie Literary Lunch: Barry Cryer on his Comedy Scrapbook

Oldie Literary Lunch: Brigid Keenan, Full Marks for Trying

Oldie Literary Lunch: Philip Eades on Evelyn Waugh

Oldie Literary Lunch: Anna Sebba on Les Parisiennes

Oldie Literary Lunch: Tom Bower on Tony Blair

Oldie Literary Lunch: Elisabeth Luard, Squirrel Pie

Oldie Literary Lunch: John Julius Norwich, Four Princes

Oldie Literary Lunch, Mary & Giles Wood, The Diary of Two Nobodies

December 2017 issue: Tanya Gold's lucky trip to hospital wonderland

December 2017 issue: Sixty seconds that hooked the nation

Donald Trelford, Shouting in the Street The Oldie Literary Lunch

Gyles Brandreth on Christmas at The Oldie Literary Lunch

January 2018 issue: Christmas with Jimi Hendrix

February 2018 issue: Behind the scenes at the British Museum

February 2018 issue: 1940s vs 1970s fashion

March 2018 issue: My Orwellian holidays

Splash! by Stephen Glover at The Oldie Literary Lunch

The Making of the British Landscape by Nicholas Crane at The Oldie Literary Lunch

Matthew Fort on Summer in the Islands, The Oldie Literary Lunch

The Oldie of the Year Awards 2018

April 2018 issue: I wrote a Ladybird book

Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan and Simon Jenkins at the March 2018 Literary Lunch

Spring issue: Those magnificent men of the RAF

July Issue: Hancock's Last Hours

2: Lady Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount at the Oldie Literary Lunch

5: July issue: Roger Lewis looks back on his journalism and books

Christopher Somerville on The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain

Stanley Johnson on Kompromat

An extract from Mary Kenny at the Oldie Journalism Course

1: Leanda de Lisle on The White King: The Untold Story of Charles I at the Oldie Literary Lunch

1: Ferdinand Mount on Prime Movers at the Oldie Literary Lunch

1: September Issue: Ask Virginia

October Issue: Sara Wheeler on Anton Chekov's Gardens

October Issue: Kenneth Cranham on Harold Pinter

2: Filming if...

1: November Issue: Let's Get Real About Food

4: Dan Cruikshank on Skyscrapers at the Oldie Literary Lunch

5: Miranda Seymour on In Bryon's Wake at the Oldie Literary Lunch

6: December Issue: Life was my Uni

December Issue: Blue guides and the Greek islands

7: Mark Mason on The Book of Seconds at the Oldie Literary Lunch

8: Dan Snow on On this day in History at the Oldie Literary Lunch

9: Andrew Morton on Wallis in Love at the Oldie Literary Lunch

10: January Issue: The Icy Thrills of Boxing Day at the Races

10: Miles Goslett on An Inconvenient Death at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Nicholas Parsons turns 95

11: Kenneth Baker on On The Seven Deadly Sins at the Oldie Literary Lunch

12: Robert Hardman on Queen of the World at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Oldie Keep Calm and Carry On Award winner Amanda Barrie on Carry On

14: William Keegan on the relief of decimalisation

15: Why Brian Clough swore at Motty

17: Matthew Sturgis on the celebrity of Oscar Wilde

Hugo Vickers on the unusual girth of the Queen's great-grandmother

Prue Leith on Bake Off, Bomb scares and Explosive Marmalade

19: Robert Hutton on MI5's most secret agent: Jack King

19: Giles Milton on a commando's unexpected encounter with Erwin Rommel

20: Getting through D-Day – Giles Milton talks Eisenhower, Pegasus Bridge and Rommel

24: Rachel Kelly outlines the three things that helped her beat depression

25: July Issue: Barry Cryer on 60 years in comedy

27: Tim Waterstone on how he built his brand

29: Anne de Courcy on Chanel's saucy secrets

29: Douglas Carswell's manifesto for optimism

31: October Issue: Dominic Green's Downton Abbey Suit

32: October Issue: Abbey Road – The Beatles's Best Studio Album?

33: Peter Hitchens: we won the war, or did we?

A N Wilson on the man who saved the Monarchy

Lloyd George nearly lost us the war

Scott of the Antarctic: hero or bungler?

Venus & Aphrodite: History of a Goddess by Bettany Hughes

Victoria Hislop on Those who are loved

Oberammergau – the town that promised God a play

Are criminals responsible for their actions?

Why Trump will win

Lord Tugendhat explains the English origins of Nazism

Dan Cruickshank – a Londoner through and through

Ed West: 'All conservatives are pessimists'

Barry Cryer, Comedy Legend – Oldie Podcast

Craig Brown and Friends – a Hilarious Oldie Podcast

Maureen Lipman, It's Great to Be a Dame - Oldie Podcast

Hunter Davies, the Fleet Street legend with Harry Bucknall - The Oldie Podcast

A toast to brilliant actor Robert Bathurst - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall

Tea for Two - Madeline Smith, The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 2

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 3

The 100th Anniversary of The Royal British Legion - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 6

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 7

Mary Churchill's diaries with her daughter Emma Soames - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall

The Right Honourable Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, 158th Speaker of the House of Commons - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 10

The Oldie Gang Show with Andrew Lownie, David Starkey and Dame Eileen Atkins

ALL SPEAKERS at The Oldie Literary Lunch Nov 15th: Lucy Lethbridge, Peter Snow and A N Wilson

Lucy Lethbridge speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch Nov 15th about Tourists

Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan speak about their latest book Kings & Queens

A N Wilson speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his autobiography Confessions

Simon Heffer speaking about Chips Channon at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Dec

Craig Brown on Haywire at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th December 2022

Prue Leith on Bliss on Toast at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th December 2022

Giles and Mary speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch Hastings

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

Craig Brown has everyone in stitches at The Oldie Literary Lunch in Hastings on 26th April 2023

Oldie Literary Lunch: Andy McNab, State of Emergency

Oldie Literary Lunch: Kwasi Kwarteng on Thatcher’s Trial

Oldie Literary Lunch: Alison Weir on The Lost Tudor

Oldie Literary Lunch: Nicholas Parsons, Welcome to Just a Minute

Oldie Literary Lunch: Juliet Nicolson on A House Full of Daughters

Oldie Literary Lunch: Founder & Editor Tom Hodgkinson on The Idler

Oldie Literary Lunch: Anna Pavord on Landskipping

Oldie Literary Lunch: Francis Beckett, Fascist in the Family

The Oldie Literary Lunch: Mark Mason on Question Time

April 2018 issue: Paddy the Great, king of Greece

Spring 2018 issue: Fat pride is fat-headed

May issue: Tom Hodgkinson on being idle

4: Charles Duff on Charley's Woods at the Oldie Literary Lunch

August Issue: Rules Britannia

1: Dame Jenni Murray on A History of Britain in 21 Women at the Oldie Literary Lunch

1: November Issue: I Once Kissed Roger Moore

Andrew Roberts on Churchill: Walking with Destiny at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Adam Zamoyski on Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Gyles Brandreth on Have You Eaten Grandma? at the Oldie Literary Lunch

18: Christopher Howse on the angriest landlord in London

23: Chris Mullin on the prescience of A Very British Coup

25: Why did Lord Carrington hate Boris Johnson?

26: Anna Pasternak speaks about the kindhearted Wallis Simpson

28: August Issue: Granny, I hardly knew you

September Issue: Toffs vs Servants in Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey

Who will be the Democratic candidate for President?

Sinclair McKay describes the horror of the Dresden firebombing

Harry Bucknall with BSO Hollywood Classics conductor Pete Harrison - The Oldie Podcast

Loyd Grossman, Renaissance man - Oldie Podcast

Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount – Episode 5

Jeffrey Archer - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall

The Oldie of The Year Awards 2022 presented by Gyles Brandreth

Henry Dimbleby & Jemima Lewis about their new book Ravenous

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

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

Harry Mount interviews Mary Kenny and A N Wilson at The Agenda Festival

Polly Toynbee speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 13th June 2023

Sir Anthony Seldon speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 13th June 2023

Listen to Edward Stourton speaking about Confessions at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th June 2023

Listen here to Glenda Jackson who sadly died today aged 87 at The Oldie of The Year Awards in 2017

Listen to Angela Levin speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 18th July 2023

Listen to Joshua Levine at The Oldie Literary Lunch 18 July 2023

Listen to Lady Antonia Fraser speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch 18th July 2023

Alan Judd speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest spy thrilled Queen & Country

Listen to Sir Ferdinand Mount speaking about his latest book on leaders called Big Caesars and Little Caesars

Listen to Frederic Raphael speaking about his latest book Last Post at The Oldie Literary Lunch 1st August 2023

Cleo Watson at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept about her latest novel Whips

Jane Ridley speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept about her latest book on George V: Never A Dull Moment

Michael Crick at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 5th Sept on his latest book on Nigel Farage: One Party After Another

Don McCullin speaks about his latest book Journeys across Roman Asia Minor at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October 2023

Listen to Timothy West and his wife Prunella Scales on his latest book Pru and Me: A Love Story, at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October 2023

Simon Heffer delights audiences on his latest history book Sing As We Go: Britain Between The Wars

Bob Cryer at The Oldie's Nov 2023 Literary Lunch on his father Barry Cryer

Michael Palin speaks at The Oldie Nov Literary Lunch about his latest book Great Uncle Harry

Jilly Cooper on her latest bonkbuster Tackle at The Oldie's November Literary Lunch 2023

The Duke of Beaufort on his memoir The Unlikely Duke at The Oldie Literary Lunch 12 Dec 2023

Mary Beard delights The Oldie Literary Lunch on her latest book Emperor of Rome

Gyles Brandreth on Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait

Andrew Roberts speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch 23 Jan on his latest book Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Robert Hardman talking at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

Roger Lewis on his latest book Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

Ysenda Maxtone-Graham on Jobs For The Girls at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Feb

Henry Jefferies at The Oldie Literary Lunch 13th Feb on Vines In a Cold Climate

David Kynaston at The Oldie Literary Lunch on A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-1965

Join Huon Mallalieu and Kirsty Fergusson for a Festive Tour of the Low Countries 9th - 14th December, 2024

Charles Glass on Soldiers Don't Go Mad at The Oldie Literary Lunch 5th March 2024

Tom Hodgkinson on 30 Years of The Idler at The Oldie Literary Lunch 5th March 2024

Michael Mansfield KC speaking about Power In The People

Harry Mount about Oldie Tours interviewed by Tom Assheton

Harry Bucknall Podcast on the 80th Anniversary of Patrick Leigh-Femor capturing General Kreipe

The Great Escape - Oldie Podcast with Tom Assheton and James Jackson

A Very Private School. Charles Spencer speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 9th April 2024

'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

Sinclair McKay reveals Winston Churchill's encounters at The Oldie Literary Lunch on April 9th 2024

Twentieth Century Heroines - Podcast by Tom Assheton & James Jackson

The Irony for Lady Anne Somerset speaking about Queen Victoria at The National Liberal Club

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Nicholas Shakespeare's favourite magazine? The Oldie, of course! Nicholas on Fleming: The Complete Man

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Jane Tippett on Edward VIII - he was a "truly modern monarch" 14th May 2024

Oldie Podcast - Charlotte Metcalf in conversation with Prue Leith for The Oldie

Oldie Podcast - John Humphrys in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Doctor Daisy Dunn on The Missing Thread

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Bloody Panico: Whatever Happened To The Tory Party

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gill Johnson on Love From Venice, her first book written aged 90 plus

Oldie Podcast - Mary Killen in conversation with Tom Assheton

Oldie Podcast - Edward Burtynsky in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

Oldie Podcast - Rebecca Hossack in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Katie Hickman on Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Linda McDougall on Marcia Williams: The Life of Lady Falkender

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Richard Coles on Murder at the Monastery

Oldie Podcast - Pattie Boyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Helen McGinn, aka The Knackered Mother on Island of Dreams

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Ingrid Seward on My Mother & I: King Charles III

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Dame Zandra Rhodes on Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Helen Lederer on Not That I'm Bitter

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Mr Chelsea aka Paul Davis

Oldie Literary Recording - Philippa Forester on Wild Woman

The Oldie Literary Lunch Recording 10th September 2024

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - William Dalrymple on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sonia Purnell on Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Patrick Bishop: Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory

Oldie Podcast - Anne Robinson in conversation with Harry Mount

Oldie Podcast - Lady Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount

Giles and Mary in conversation Harry Mount at The Dorchester Literary Festival

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording- Bill Wyman sheds a tear in an emotional recount of Billy In The Wars

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Henry Blofeld on Sharing My Love of Cricket

Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Pam Ayres on Doggedly Onward