Radio Oldie

Radio Oldie
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Aug 23, 2025 • 36min

392: Andrew Lownie in conversation with Harry Mount

On Radio Oldie, Prince Andrew's biographer, Andrew Lownie, talks to Harry Mount. His new book Entitled - The Rise and Fall of the House of York is a number one bestseller. It reveals how Prince Andrew, the late Queen's favourite, was disgraced by his greed for money and sex.
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Aug 15, 2025 • 38min

391: Fay Maschler in conversation with Harry Mount

Fay Maschler, the restaurant critic, tells Harry Mount about 53 years of reviewing restaurants. The Evening Standard critic for 48 years, she is now Tatler's critic. She reveals London's greatest restaurant - and explains why 1987 was the year that changed the British eating landscape for ever.
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Jul 31, 2025 • 40min

390: John Lloyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

John Lloyd is a multi-award-winning television and radio producer. He is the creator of Not the Nine O’Clock News, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder,  Spitting Image, QI, The Museum of Curiosity and much more.  In 2011 was awarded a CBE for services to broadcasting.
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Jul 31, 2025 • 31min

389: Rachel Kelly in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

Rachel Kelly is a bestselling author, keynote speaker and mental health advocate, who has just published her new book The Gift of Teenagers, recently serialised in the Daily Mail.  A former Times journalist, Rachel has been named one of the UK’s top five mental health influencers and is an official ambassador for the mental health charities Rethink Mental Illness and SANE.  
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Jul 28, 2025 • 40min

388: Helen Lederer in conversation with Harry Mount

Helen Lederer tells Harry Mount about a life in comedy. A stand-up comedian at the Comedy Store, she has starred with Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ben Elton and the late Rik Mayall, . And she excelled as Catriona, the dim Sloane in Absolutely Fabulous.
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Jul 21, 2025 • 30min

387: Sarah Sands in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

Sarah Sands is a well-known journalist. She edited Readers’ Digest, the Sunday Telegraph and the Evening Standard before becoming editor of Today, BBC Four’s flagship news programme. Recently she abandoned her career in exchange for a quieter, more fluid life and has written three books about monasticism, faith and inner peace.  She also now organises pilgrimages. She talks to Charlotte Metcalf about her time in journalism, the deaths of her father, her brother and her ex-husband, Julian Sands and her quest for a very different way of life. 
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Jul 16, 2025 • 13min

386: Philippa Langley at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Philippa Langley speaking about her new book, The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on July 15th 2025.
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Jul 16, 2025 • 14min

385: David Hepworth at the Oldie Literary Lunch

David Hepworth speaking about his new book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on July 15th 2025.
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Jul 16, 2025 • 12min

384: Lucy Moore at the Oldie Literary Lunch

Lucy Moore speaking about her new book, Christopher Gibbs: His World, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on July 15th 2025.
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Jul 14, 2025 • 50min

383: Mary Kenny in conversation with Harry Mount

Oldie columnist and Irish writer, Mary Kenny, tells Harry Mount about her 60 years in journalism. She salutes her old boss, the novelist Edna O'Brien, and remembers her time leading the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. And she reflects on her biography of Lord Haw-Haw, the Nazi propagandist.

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