The Oldie - 1 Dez 2024
Fairest of them all
Waynetta Slob v Nancy Mitford
Steamy Puccini
John Humphrys and his bees
Radio ldie
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Film: Super/man: The Christopher Reeve Story
The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape, by Thomas Pakenham
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir, by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
Henry VIII’S prettiest wife
The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1814-1945, by N A M Rodger
My Pembrokeshire inspiration
Revenge of the Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
Killing Time, by Alan Bennett
Overlooked Britain: Waddesdon Manor Aviary, Bucks
Taking a Walk: Titterstone Clee Hill, Shropshire
Gardening
Bradley’s Railway Guide, by Simon Bradley
Memorial Service: Julia Rausing
Unleashed, by Boris Johnson
Modern Life: what is the Red Book?
The Old Un’s Notes
I Once Met … Audrey Hepburn
Olden Life: Dagenham Girl Pipers
On the Road: Carlos Acosta
Attack of the thriller bees
The Doctor’s Surgery
Postcards from the Edge
Theatre: Dr Strangelove
Say it before it’s too late
Bird of the Month: Tree sparrow
Rant: Bl**dy asterisks
How not to be boring
Oldie Man of Letters
The joy of skinheads
Literary lunch
Grumpy Oldie Man
Saved by Leonardo
Lady Avon on Suez
Puccini centenary
Town Mouse
Digital Life
Kitchen Garden
Restaurants
Bridge
Television
Exhibitions
Country Mouse
Money Matters
Golden Oldies
Competition
Small World
School Days
Memory Lane
Mary Killen’s Beauty Tips
History
Music
Gyles Brandreth’s Diary
Prue’s News
Commonplace Corner
Ask Virginia Ironside
Radio
Motoring
God
Best ever insults
Readers’ Letters
Sport
Drink
Crossword
Among this month’s contributors
The Old Un’s Notes
Important stories you may have missed
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There is nothing like Dame Judi
Welcome to the DIY NHS
The Red Book?
The Dagenham Girl Pipers?
Fairest of them all
In history, everyone was beautiful or ugly according to very different standards
Skinhead hunter
Attack of the thriller bees
Warning! Bore alert
The Avon lady on Suez
Take that!
Steamy Puccini
A poet’s best career move? Die young
Harper Lee’s reading lesson
Audrey Hepburn
A bohemian banker in Soho
How U are you?
Closing time for overpriced pubs
Requiem for my atheist mother
Churchill’s painted lady
Don’t carry on, nurse!
Commonplace Corner
RANT
SMALL DELIGHTS
Too late to say goodbye
The bloody truth of country life
Inside job
Winter round-up of the reviews
A Festive Miscellany
POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
CHRISTMAS BOOKS
MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
CRIME & THRILLERS
COUNTRYSIDE & ENVIRONMENT
CLASSICS
MISCELLANEOUS
SHORT STORIES
MUSIC MEMOIR
FICTION
HISTORY
KINGMAKER
THE ISLAND W H AUDEN AND THE LAST OF ENGLISHNESS
CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE SERPENT QUEEN
SONNY BOY: A MEMOIR
MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS CHRONICLE OF A YEAR BY THE SEA
IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN A PERSONAL JOURNEY
TCHAIKOVSKY’S EMPIRE A NEW LIFE OF RUSSIA’S GREATEST COMPOSER
CELLO A JOURNEY THROUGH SILENCE TO SOUND
STREET-LEVEL SUPERSTAR
AND THE ROOTS OF RHYTHM REMAIN
EARTH TO MOON
HENRY V
THE GOLDEN ROAD
THE EAGLE AND THE HART
ARNHEM
THE WAGNER GROUP
HITLER’S PEOPLE
SAM LEITH on the books that delighted him as a child
BILLIONAIRE, NERD, SAVIOUR, KING
TRUSS AT 10
WAR
THE ABANDONERS OF MOTHERS AND MONSTERS
MOTHER STATE
ALL THE RAGE
MONEY
MAKING THE WEATHER
ELAINE
INTERMEZZO
PLAYGROUND
MUNICHS
THE ECHOES
MR GEOGRAPHY
SHY CREATURES
PEGGY
RARE SINGLES
SMALL RAIN
ANNIHILATION
SAFE ENOUGH
THE HOTEL
MODERATE TO POOR, OCCASIONALLY GOOD
LUCY LETHBRIDGE seeks out the best new editions of loved classics in time for Christmas
THE BURNING EARTH
THE POWER AND THE GLORY
ON THE ROOF
MICHAEL BARBER rounds up thrillers and crime fiction to keep you gripped this winter
WANT
NEXUS
ROGUES AND SCHOLARS
AN ATLAS OF ENDANGERED ALPHABETS
THE PLACE OF TIDES
THE GENETIC BOOK OF THE DEAD
THE STORY OF A HEART
THE VIRAGO BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP
LIFE, DEATH AND GETTING DRESSED
OCEAN
THE PENALTY KICK
My Orcadian Arcadia
Julia Rausing (1961- 2024)
Pros and cons of prostate treatment
RIP Ed Mclachlan
A breath of fresh Ayres
Safe in taxis
I haven’t met Gyles
Irish Sea dog
He sank the Bismarck
I didn’t help Lucan
Sir Les’s ghost in Adelaide
Map-reading lesson
See it, say it....
Bennett’s swansong?
Kings of the forest
Top trainspotter
An American tragedy
Tipping Point II
Sea changes
Bertie Wooster of No 10
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY (12A)
DR STRANGELOVE
FRANCES WILSON
VALERIE GROVE
FRANCES WILSON
GABRIEL FAURÉ
RIP AUTOGRAPHS
LEIGHTON AND LANDSCAPE
JOY OF HOUSE PLANTS
MACE
STIR-UP SUNDAY
LUNCH ON THE PRODIGAL SON
HOLIDAY HOOCH
Wine
HOY – THE REAL MCCOY
BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO EVS
Beware of Radio Musk
Webwatch
Patrick Sergeant, King of the City pages
Tree sparrow
The Wild West
Feed the birds, Rothschild-style
Feed the birds, Rothschild-style
Housman’s ode to unwrecked Shropshire
Genius crossword 446
Moron crossword 446
Genius 444 solution
Competition
BRIDGE
Cuba’s Lord of the Dance
My Polish Renaissance
Ask Virginia
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