Radio Oldie

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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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The podcast currently has 394 episodes available.

Radio Oldie episodes:

January 21, 2025 337: Chris Patten at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Chris Patten speaking about his memoir, The Hong Kong Diaries, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London's National Liberal Club, on January 21st 2025.
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18min
January 20, 2025 336: ‘A 15-Year Suicide Note’ - Robert Bathurst on the genius of Jeff Bernard’s Low Life column
Robert Bathurst, star of Cold Feet and Toast of London, is playing Jeff Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell in Jeff’s old haunt, the Coach & Horses. He tells Harry Mount what a sublime writer Bernard was.
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41min
January 13, 2025 335: Ed Stourton in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
Edward Stourton has worked in broadcasting for over 40 years and was a presenter on Today for many years. He continues to present BBC Radio 4 programmes like Sunday and The World at One. He’s also been a foreign correspondent for Channel Four, ITN and the BBC and has written several books, including his recent memoir, Confessions, is now out in paperback with a new postscript commenting on how presenting news has changed during his career. He was educated at Ampleforth and Cambridge.

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.

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37min
January 06, 2025 Oldie Podcast - Kenneth Cranham in conversation with Harry Mount on Elvis
Kenneth Cranham CBE is a Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor. His most notable screen roles were in Oliver!, Up Pompeii, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Chocolat, Layer Cake, Gangster No. 1, Hot Fuzz, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.
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36min
December 17, 2024 Oldie Podcast - William Boyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
William Boyd is a British novelist, short story, writer and screenwriter. Between 1980 and 1983, Boyd was a lecturer in English at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981) was published.

He was also a television critic for the New Statesman between 1981 and 1983. Boyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. William Boyd has written numerous books, screenplays, short stories and plays.

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.
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32min
December 17, 2024 Oldie Podcast - John Standing in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
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 (1995) and King Solomon's Mines (2004). John Standing is married to Sarah Standing.

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.
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32min
December 16, 2024 Oldie Podcast – Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount
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 footnotes.

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34min
December 16, 2024 Oldie Podcast - Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount
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 footnotes.
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34min
December 12, 2024 Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sam Leith - 10th December 2024
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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10min
December 12, 2024 Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gyles Brandreth - 10th December 2024
Gyles Brandreth: Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries & 7 Secrets of Happiness & Prose & Cons: The English Language in Just a Minute.
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12min

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How many episodes does Radio Oldie have?

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