The Oldie - 1 Jan 2026
Christmas Special!
Philip Larkin, my kind, gloomy friend – A N Wilson
Auntie in trouble – John Humphrys on the BBC
The joy of Flanders and Swann – Simon Berry
1976: James Hunt’s hot year
Brando v Sinatra
Grandpa: Somerset Maugham
Give The Oldie for £3.50 an issue
A Short History of America: From Tea Party to Trump, by Simon Jenkins
OUTNOW! Theoldie Annual2026
Overlooked Britain: statue of canine hero Bamse, Montrose
Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones, by Robert Ross
Attention: Writing on Art, Life and the World, by Anne Enright
We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir, by Anthony Hopkins
Dianarama: The Betrayal of Princess Diana, by Andy Webb
Taking a Walk: north Norfolk in the footsteps of Boadicea
I Once Met … Alastair Sim and Stanley Holloway
Remarkable Renaissance Books, by John Boardley
Thanksgiving Service: Hilary Weston
Modern Life: What is the Lunch Club?
Theatre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
I’m a Christmas-party addict
World’s oldest model-railway club
Olden Life: What were periodicals?
Joy of Flanders and Swann
Great drought, 50 years on
Reader trips to Puglia and the Bordeaux region’s Right Bank
My grandpa, Somerset Maugham
On the Road: Maggie Steed
Rant: Modern technology
Film:wake Up Dead Man
Postcards from the Edge
The Doctor’s Surgery
Year of Living Grumpily
Bookseller priest
Bird of the Month: Firecrest
Guys and Dolls at 70
Oldie Man of Letters
Grumpy Oldie Man
The clean meanies
Town Mouse
Digital Life
Kitchen Garden
Restaurants
BBC at war
Bridge
History
Television
Country Mouse
School Days
Golden Oldies
Small World
Exhibitions
Prue’s News
Money Matters
Competition
Gardening
Mary Killen’s Beauty Tips
Memory Lane
Cookery
Music
Gyles Brandreth’s Diary
Commonplace Corner
Radio
Motoring
The Old Un’s Notes
God
Readers’ Letters
Reader trip to Corfu
Sport
Drink
Literary lunch
Crossword
The Old Un’s Notes
Among this month’s contributors
NOT MANY DEAD
Important stories you may have missed
NEW! Tune into Radio Oldie
GREAT BORES OF TODAY – MODERN CHRISTMASH
P G Wodehouse’s Plum Lines
Iain Macleod, my dream Christmas elf
Show me Farage as a schoolboy...
WHAT WERE periodicals?
WHAT IS the Lunch Club?
Brando vs Sinatra
Year of living grumpily
Year of living grumpily
The swan song of Michael Flanders
The swan song of Michael Flanders
Confessions of a party animal
First-class ticket to heaven
We’re doomed!
We’re doomed!
Hot date
Grandpa’s long shadow
Don’t get the hump
Let them bake cake
G K Chesterton’s Tips for an Old-fashioned Xmas
My winter’s tale? A bumper harvest of fruit ’n’ nuts
Moscow’s useful – and generous – idiot
Father’s in love with the postman
The shepherds’ Christmas message
The fall and rise of heart attacks
Philip Larkin was gloomy – and wonderful
Alastair Sim and Stanley Holloway
The Great Manure Race
Search for the Holy Grail
Long live facecloths
RIP the Christmas pig
Julie Burchill’s kiss of life
John Logie Baird’s dummy
Class warfare
Feztive Tommy Cooper
Chaos of John Bayley
Save Tracey Emin’s bed
The two-bob pint
Memo to self – pay attention in class
UNCLE SAM WANTSYOU
Among the contributors
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Homeric home in Kardamyli
Happy Birthday, USA Jonathan Ray and James Fletcher on the 250th anniversary party
Dream guides? Ronnie Biggs and Bruce Chatwin
Shamed in Baden-baden
Golden oldie travel tip
Inside Hitler’s bunker
Forgotten armies
Brits on the piste
Mugged in Rio
Salve, Naples!
From a British colony...
...to a free America
See Naples before you die
Inside Hitler’s bunker
The Baden-baden Baddie
The Bruce Chatwin & Ronnie Biggs Guide to Latin America
Brits on the piste
All at sea
Wheels of fortune
The Forgotten Armies
Home from Homer
Behind the scenes at your local museum
Commonplace Corner
Modern technology
SMALL DELIGHTS
The full Monty
The full Monty
America express
Hannibal’s lecture
Renaissance writers
The great noticer
Diana’s bloodhounds
HARRY MOUNT
WILLIAM COOK
FRANCES WILSON
VALERIE GROVE
FRANCES WILSON
RICHARD OSBORNE
MARK ELLEN
HUON MALLALIEU
DAVID WHEELER
SIMON COURTAULD
ELISABETH LUARD
JAMES PEMBROKE
JIM WHITE
ALAN JUDD
BILL KNOTT
New digital sensation? Bin lorries
Unilever fever
Webwatch
Exploring Corfu in the footsteps of the Durrells
Firecrest
Bamse, a great dog of war
Bamse, a great dog of war
Boadicea’s Guide to North Norfolk
Genius crossword 460
Moron crossword 460
Genius 458 solution
Moron 458 answers:
Competition
BRIDGE
Two original reader trips
HOW TO BOOK:
From Eastenders to Rivals
Cleanliness is next to tastelessness
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