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Jonathan Fenby talks at The Oldie Literary Lunch about his latest book which explores the tempestuous history of modern France. For more than a decade Jonathan was head of Reuters in Paris.

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Gyles Brandeth the star performer talks at The Oldie Literary Lunch. He is someone who would entertain even if he simply read from the Yellow Pages. Gyles reveals why he is such a scream on BBC Radio 4's Just A Minute: prepare yourself for a linguistic frenzy of palindromes, mnemonics and acronyms.

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Ian Kershaw talks at the enowned Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpsons on the Stand, London W1. Kershaw is the leading expert on Hitler and Nazi Germany. His latest work focuses on the consequences for Europe of being plunged into two World Wars.

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Barry Cryer, comedian and writer makes up for Jonathan Miller not turning up to the renowned Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpsons on the Stand, by telling some of his eponymous parrot jokes.

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Classicist and historian Tom Holland talks at the renowned Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpsons on the Stand, London W1. Dynasty - The Rise & Fall of the House of Caesar is a prequel to Persian Fire and Rubicon. The book provides an exuberant portrait of Rome's first imperial Dynasty.

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The renowned Oldie Literary lunch held in Brighton welcomes Flora Fraser, granddaughter of Elizabeth Longford and daughter of Antonia Fraser. Flora describes the marriage of The Washingtons, George and Martha, and the struggle for independence in the US.

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The biggest selling Historian in the UK Alison Weir talks about The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox at a renowned Oldie Literary lunch. Her latest book looks at the life of scandal, imprisonment, drama and tragedy of this relatively unknown royal Tudor.

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The Oldie Lunch Recordings presents Piers Paul Read's latest novel reimagines the life of Vitellio Scarpia, the villain of Puccini's Tosca. With a backdrop of 18th Century Rome, we follow him from disgrace and penury to his fatal clinch with Tosca who he ruined.

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Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants Volume Two: talks at the renowned Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpsons on the Stand, London W1. Moore returns to Simpson's to talk about his much awaited Volume Two of his highly praised biography.

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Patrick Bishop Author of The Cooler Kings talks at the renowned Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpsons on the Stand, London W1. Bishop has spent 26 years covering conflicts around the world and has reported from the front line of almost every major war of our era. Author of The Fighter Boys, his new work tells us the story of Canadian Spitfire pilot William Ash who defied the Nazis by trying to escape from a succession of PoW camps.

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