Radio Oldie
Radio Oldie
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.
Episodes
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Jan 20, 2015 • 14min
Oldie Literary Lunch: Valerie Grove on Lynn Barber’s a Curious Career
Valerie Grove steps in for Lynn Barber, five-time British Press Award winner and interviewer extraordinaire, to talk about Barber's new book, Curious Career, at the Oldie Literary Lunches at Simpson's-in-the-Strand.
Jan 20, 2015 • 17min
Oldie Literary Lunch: Alan Johnson, Please Mister Postman
The former home secretary and one of our top speakers of 2013 returns to the Oldie Literary Lunch at Simpson's-in-the-Strand to talk about the second volume of his memoirs. It charts Johnson's life from age eighteen to his mid-thirties - the time he worked for both the Post Office and its trade union.
Jan 20, 2015 • 13min
Oldie Literary Lunch: David Kynaston, Modernity Britain
David Kynaston returns, to the Oldie Literary Lunches at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, with another volume of insights into the inner workings of inter-generational post-war Britain. Lessons learned from a fading decade are subsumed into the dawn of the oncoming one - an insightful, detailed portrait of a nation in flux.
