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October 27, 2021 Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 2
In this week's Oldie Newsround, Giles and Mary reveal the best way to turn down a party invitation and how to build the perfect fire.
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20 min
October 18, 2021 Giles and Mary's Oldie Newsround with Harry Mount - Episode 1
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's agony aunt. This week, they discuss the Queen'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.
25 min
September 01, 2021 Tea for Two - Madeline Smith, The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
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 and screen, the late Sir Alec Guinness who many will remember as Colonel Nicholson in David Lean’s Bridge over the River Kwai, or for his portrayal of John le Carre’s George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and latterly as Obe Wan Kenobi in George Lucas’s l Star Wars trilogy. We began in bed with Sir Roger Moore.
Photo credit: Steve Ball

29 min
July 05, 2021 A toast to brilliant actor Robert Bathurst - The Oldie Podcast with Harry Bucknall
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 "Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell", and Noel Coward’s "Blithe Spirit", Robert Is no stranger to theatre. In this month’s podcast, he talks to Harry Bucknall, about Toast of London, his love of national hunt racing and his latest piece in the June issue of the Oldie titled Dying on stage - a survivor's guide.

34 min
April 15, 2021 Loyd Grossman, Renaissance man - Oldie Podcast
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…
45 min
March 11, 2021 Harry Bucknall with BSO Hollywood Classics conductor Pete Harrison - The Oldie Podcast
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.

Full programme details at BSOlive.com

Hollywood Classics is available as a digital livestream for 30 days and tickets can be purchased for £9 per household from BSOlive.com
25 min
February 14, 2021 Hunter Davies, the Fleet Street legend with Harry Bucknall - The Oldie Podcast
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!
39 min
January 12, 2021 Maureen Lipman, It's Great to Be a Dame - Oldie Podcast
Harry Bucknall covers Maureen'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.
34 min
December 10, 2020 The Oldie Podcast: BSO Christmas Crackers Concert is in its 5th decade - Harry Bucknall
Pete Harrison, guest conductor for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's Christmas Crackers concert tells Harry Bucknall that the show will go on. BSO will welcome audiences to the December 19 Christmas concert which will be streamed live and available for download to enjoy at any time. Singer Laura Tebbutt is thrilled to return to the stage with for the first time since 1st March.

For tickets to attend, download or stream the BSO’s Christmas Crackers Concert at the Poole Lighthouse on Saturday 19th December visit www.bsolive.com

26 min
November 20, 2020 Craig Brown and Friends – a Hilarious Oldie Podcast
Britain's funniest writer, Craig Brown, has asked his pals to record some of his greatest hits. Starring Richard Ingrams as Prince Philip, Eleanor Bron as Jilly Cooper, AN Wilson as Alan Titchmarsh, Craig Brown and Tallulah Brown as Downton Abbey's Lord and Lady Grantham, and Paul Bailey as John Gielgud
56 min

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