The Oldie - 30 Apr 2025
VE Day – 80 years on
Carry On Crying – Roger Lewis on the tragicomic films
NICKY HASLAM ON THE FIRST LADY OF FLEET STREET
The last days of Guy Burgess – Iain Pears
When Hitler met Freud – Maurice Gran
F Scott Fitzgerald’s New York
Wild Irish horses
80 years on: VE Day
Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso, by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi
God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England, by Bijan Omrani
When the Carry On Stopped, by Dave Ainsworth
Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer, by Paul Lamb
Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power, by Harriet Cullen
The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain, by Anna Whitelock
Remembering VE Day, 80 years on Major General
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Funeral Service: James Fawcett
Overlooked Britain: Wotton House, Surrey
Olden Life: What was Call My Bluff?
Theatre: North by Northwest
Modern Life: What is a bop?
Guy Burgess’s final birthday party
What the Huguenots did for us
I Once Met … Derek Fowlds
Sycamore Gap at Hadrian’s Wall
Tea for 200 years in Assam
Christopher Gibbs, King of Aesthetes
Mick Jagger on 60 years of Satisfaction
On the Road: Wayne Sleep
Rant: Consumer helplines
The Doctor’s Surgery
Postcards from the Edge
Bird of the Month: Reed bunting
The last Kardomah Café
When Hitler met Freud
So long, Old New York
Memory Lane
The joy of protection
Oldie Man of Letters
Grumpy Oldie Man
Digital Life
Town Mouse
Kitchen Garden
Restaurants
Film: The Return
The axing of Alex
Cookery
Money Matters
Gardening
Reader trip to Granada and Malaga
Exhibitions
School Days
Country Mouse
Television
Competition
Golden Oldies
Mary Killen’s Beauty Tips
Small World
History
Music
Gyles Brandreth’s Diary
Prue’s News
Bridge
Drink
Commonplace Corner
Ask Virginia Ironside
Radio
Motoring
The Old Un’s Notes
God
Boisdale wine lunch
Sport
Readers’ Letters
Literary lunch
Crossword
The Old Un’s Notes
Among this month’s contributors
Important stories you may have missed
NEW! Tune into Radio Oldie
P G Wodehouse’s Plum Lines
My love affair with Donna Tartt
The art of the racing certainty
what was Call My Bluff ?
what is a bop?
A day to remember The British Army is still shaped by WWII, 80 years after VE Day.
A day to remember The British Army is still shaped by WWII, 80 years after VE Day.
Sixty years of Satisfaction
When Hitler met Freud
So long, old New York
So long, old New York
Cream of café society
A very English traitor
Alex is axed
What a Dumbo! I lied about Walt Disney
My rubbery day’s work Ping! The phalli would swing up into the air
French polish
The Hip History Man
The Hip History Man
The big squeezy
Soaring cost of top doctors
Why can’t my son talk proper?
Free at last – from waiting in Waitrose for Mary
I’m a teacher – not a prison guard
Hot dogs, the Beano and grief
Cheapside Hoard wasn’t so cheap
Who wants to drive for ever? Oldies do
Beware the green-eyed, deadly sin
James Fawcett (1964-2025)
Lifetime risk of death? 100 per cent
Derek Fowlds
Deadly VE Day in Tunbridge Wells
Patrick Moore spins in grave
Preposterous presents
Bamber’s gas coin
Lockdown NHS saved me
Pain of school fees
Dissolution of the Rectories
Canadian Trump fan
Travelling light
Cary Grant in Cornwall
Finger-stingin’ good
Olden Life answers
Carry On Crying Hawtrey filled a carrier bag with leftovers and pilfered Pinewood’s toilet rolls
Carry On Crying Hawtrey filled a carrier bag with leftovers and pilfered Pinewood’s toilet rolls
First Lady of Fleet St
Hedge fun
And did those feet...
Sacred monster
Shakespeare’s King
Commonplace Corner
SMALL DELIGHTS
HARRY MOUNT
WILLIAM COOK
FRANCES WILSON
VALERIE GROVE
RICHARD OSBORNE
MARK ELLEN
HUON MALLALIEU
DAVID WHEELER
SIMON COURTAULD
ELISABETH LUARD
JAMES PEMBROKE
BILL KNOTT
Wine
JIM WHITE
ALAN JUDD
Watch out, there’s a troll about
Trump’s nemesis? The stock market
Webwatch
The palaces and gardens of Granada and Malaga
HOW TO BOOK:
Reed bunting
Tea for two hundred years
Tea for two hundred years
John Evelyn’s menagerie
John Evelyn’s menagerie
Lord of the Dance
EL SERENO
Moron crossword 452
Genius 450 solution
Moron 450 answers:
TESSA CASTRO
BRIDGE
Elegy for the Hadrian’s Wall sycamore
Inheritance tactics
Sister’s ugly behaviour
My jury trial
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