The Oldie Podcast

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

Lady Antonia Fraser speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 18th July 2023 about her latest book Lady Caroline Lamb: a Free Spirit. At aged 90, Lady Antonia wowed the audience with her compelling account.

Listen to Joshua Levine at The Oldie Literary Lunch on his latest book SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS.

Listen to Angela Levin speaks at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 18th July 2023 about her latest book Camilla: from Outcast to Queen Consort.  Having spent a lot of time with Queen Camilla, Angela gave us a glorious insight into our monarch.

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

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

Sir Anthony Seldon speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 13th June 2023 about his latest book Boris at 10, looking at Boris's career as Prime Minister and what went wrong

Polly Toynbee speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 13th June 2023 about her latest book An Uneasy Inheritance about class and growing up being aware of different classes within the UK

Harry Mount interviews Mary Kenny and A N Wilson at The Agenda Festival at The Hurlingham Club on Monday 22 May 2023

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 explosives in South Africa, as "utter dynamite". This column has now become a book as it was so popular, called Bliss On Toast. It has been selling like hot toast. Prue has also written an autobiography called Relish but her huge fan base in America said "no, that's what you put on hamburgers like jam" so in the USA, her book is called I Will Try Anything Once. Next year, Prue plans to do a one woman show in the spring, touring the UK and then to America. She told The Oldie Readers, "Am I completely mad, I am 82?" Prue's advice to The Oldie Literary Lunch was, "you can still be old and have a good time". In th

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 his book about The Beatles: 150 Glimpses. His next biographical subject is The Queen. Today, he spoke to us about his latest book of journalistic writings, Haywire. Craig Brown explained the meaning of his latest book Haywire, "I think most people in this room have reached the age when they think the world has gone haywire". This realisation came to Craig when he set about writing a literary quiz. He wrote all the obvious categories and then thought, how about middle names of fictitious characters? What was the middle name for James Bond? After all, James Bond went to Eton and all Etonians have odd middle name