The Oldie - 1 Jul 2025
Pete & Dud & Me
Review of Books
It was 40 years ago today – Griff Rhys Jones and Mark Ellen on Live Aid
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Joy of Fray Bentos pies – Paul Heiney and Charlie Mortimer
My golden secret – John Humphrys on his perfect builder
‘I think The Oldie these days is simply the best magazine there is – seriously, the best’ – Stephen Fry
MARY KILLEN
I once met Sid Vicious
Darling Julie Christie
Dudley Moore at 90
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The Letters of Frank Loesser, edited by Dominic Broomfield-mchugh and Cliff Eisen
A Shattered Idol: The Lord Chief Justice and His Troublesome Women, by Tom Hughes
The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB, by Gordon Carera
The Cardinal: The Secret Life of Thomas Wolsey, by Alison Weir
Overlooked Britain: Abbey Mills Pumping Station, Newham Lucinda Lambton
Taking a Walk and a Swim: with the dog on the Tyne
A Writer’s Story, by Rachel Billington
Memorial Service: Michael Ancram James Hughes-onslow
Olden Life: What were revolving restaurants?
The Lady in the Park, by David Reynolds
Modern Life: What is looksmaxxing?
Learning to love a stoma bag
Directing Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
Lake Constance, home of the Zeppelins William Cook
Highgate Cemetery open to newcomers
The joy of Fray Bentos pies
On the Road: Michael Crick Louise Flind
I found the perfect builder
In Praise of Love
Who doesn’t enjoy a good flirt?
I Once Met … Sid Vicious
Postcards from the Edge
The Doctor’s Surgery
Long live the novelty act
Bird of the Month: Spoonbill
Travel-writing clichés
Live Aid remembered
Rant: Period dramas
Oldie Man of Letters
Grumpy Oldie Man
Oldie Beauty Day (hosted by Mary Killen)
Town Mouse
Simon Courtauld
James Pembroke
Frances Wilson
Country Mouse
Memory Lane
Darling
Shrinking pains
Matthew Webster
School Days
White lies
Reader trip to Cadiz and Jerez
Neil Collins
Condolences
Living in bed
Competition
David Wheeler
Mary Killen’s Beauty Tips
Mark Ellen
Small World
History
Cookery
Richard Osborne
Gyles Brandreth’s Diary
Decanters
Bridge
Prue’s News
Commonplace Corner
Ask Virginia Ironside
Valerie Grove
Alan Judd
The Old Un’s Notes
God
Readers’ Letters
Jim White
Bill Knott
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
De Niro makes me an offer I can refuse
Where the wild things are? My garden
what were revolving restaurants?
what is looksmaxxing?
PC Smith & PC Jones rock the world
PC Smith & PC Jones rock the world
Thrill of the chaste
Pete & Dud & Me
Pete & Dud & Me
Small change
Nice as pie
Fray Bentos saved my life
Long live the novelty act
My bed of nails
The lying game
Glass half-empty
Sun, sea and clichés
Mark Palmer’s Banned Words in Travel Pieces
Sun, sea and clichés
Burial grounds
My golden secret
Bag for life
Save the girls from the lost boys
Summertime – and the clothing is easy
Beauty DAY
Deep condolences
Living la Dolce Vita in my local shopping centre
My worst fear? Mary and I become silver splitters
Feeding the 450 – a modern miracle
Amanda Barrie
Eleanor Doughty
Paula Byrne
Trollope’s best idea? The Irish Post Office
The Wild West of Cleethorpes
A good election? Is the Pope Catholic?
13th Marquess of Lothian (1945-2024)
CAT scans aren’t the cat’s whiskers
We must remember them
British Empire of the Sun
War bores
Lowry at the Kardomah
Tram dram
Not true, Prue
My Persuaders cravat
‘Come on, Bozo.
‘I got this for a cyber attack…’
Bright Spark
Illiterate King John
The All-bran hymn
Gyles Brandreth’s dates
America the Beautiful
Summer round-up
Books for Summer
LOOKING AFTER
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
38 LONDRES STREET
THE SLEEP ROOM
JOE DUNTHORNE
STARS TO STEER BY
THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK
FREE
IAN LESLIE
YOKO
Following Pope Leo XIV’S recent election, LUCY LETHBRIDGE hunts down good books about the papacy
THE ALIENATION EFFECT
ALLIES AT WAR
THE REBEL EMPRESSES
FULVIA JANE DRAYCOTT
SCOUSE REPUBLIC
CROYDONOPOLIS
MAKING DO
MURDER IN CAIRO
CHRISTOPHER DE BELLAIGUE
KATE LOVEMAN
JOHN WALSH is drawn back to old firm favourites for leisurely reading in the sunshine
TWIST
FLESH
THEFT
NATASHA BROWN
ROOM ON THE SEA
THE HOMEMADE GOD
AUDITION
SARAH MOSS
ALBION
Picks the best new crime novels and thrillers for gripping summer reading
RUPERT CHRISTIANSEN tried to write a novel, but only had the imagination for ‘quite good’ fiction
Art
Art
Art
Current Affairs
Current Affairs
Current Affairs
Miscellaneous
LIZ ANDERSON chooses three new books exploring religion, pilgrimage and spirituality
Natural History
Fighting for the past
I Once Met Sid Vicious
Skeleton in my attic
American song lines
A Longford story
The Domino effect
Commonplace Corner
RANT
SMALL DELIGHTS
HARRY MOUNT
WILLIAM COOK
VALERIE GROVE
FRANCES WILSON
Bob Wilson
RICHARD OSBORNE
MARK ELLEN
HUON MALLALIEU
DAVID WHEELER
SIMON COURTAULD
ELISABETH LUARD
JAMES PEMBROKE
BILL KNOTT
JIM WHITE
ALAN JUDD
Spoonbill
Real life takes place in the flesh
Warren Buffett, the Midas of Wall Street
Webwatch
Join The Oldie in Cadiz and Jerez
Last f lights of the Zeppelin
Queen of Clean Machines
Queen of Clean Machines
The rhino of Fleet Street
Genius crossword 454
Moron crossword 454
Genius 452 solution
Moron 452 answers:
Competition
BRIDGE
Swimming with the dog on the Tyne
Joy of marital sex
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