Episodes

  • Oldie Podcast - Kenneth Cranham in conversation with Harry Mount on Elvis

    Oldie Podcast - Kenneth Cranham in conversation with Harry Mount on Elvis
    Jan 6 2025
    Kenneth Cranham CBE is a Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor. His most notable screen roles were in Oliver!, Up Pompeii, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Chocolat, Layer Cake, Gangster No. 1, Hot Fuzz, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.
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    14 mins
  • Oldie Podcast - William Boyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

    Oldie Podcast - William Boyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
    Dec 17 2024
    William Boyd is a British novelist, short story, writer and screenwriter. Between 1980 and 1983, Boyd was a lecturer in English at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981) was published.

    He was also a television critic for the New Statesman between 1981 and 1983. Boyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. William Boyd has written numerous books, screenplays, short stories and plays.

    Charlotte Metcalf is a journalist, editor, award-winning documentary film-maker and was co-presenter of the Break Out Culture podcast. She is Supplements Editor and a frequent contributor at The Oldie.
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    32 mins
  • Oldie Podcast - John Standing in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

    Oldie Podcast - John Standing in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
    Dec 17 2024
    Sir John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet (born 16 August 1934), known professionally as John Standing, is an English actor.

    Standing is best known for roles in the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh, and for leading parts in many plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest and Private Lives with Maggie Smith.

    John Standing has appeared in major roles on television, including: The First Churchills (1969), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), The Choir (1995) and King Solomon's Mines (2004). John Standing is married to Sarah Standing.

    Charlotte Metcalf is a journalist, editor, award-winning documentary film-maker and was co-presenter of the Break Out Culture podcast. She is Supplements Editor and a frequent contributor at The Oldie.
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    32 mins
  • Oldie Podcast – Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount

    Oldie Podcast – Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount
    Dec 16 2024

    Stephen Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. Fry first came to prominence as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. In 1986-1989 Fry starred in Blackadder.


    Odyssey completes his Greek Myths series in marvellous fashion. . . Fry, a born storyteller, succeeds again in making the ancient stories accessible, gently modernising the language and dotting his journey with explanatory and often amusing footnotes.


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    34 mins
  • Oldie Podcast - Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount

    Oldie Podcast - Stephen Fry in conversation with Harry Mount
    Dec 16 2024
    Stephen Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. Fry first came to prominence as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. In 1986-1989 Fry starred in Blackadder.

    Odyssey completes his Greek Myths series in marvellous fashion. . . Fry, a born storyteller, succeeds again in making the ancient stories accessible, gently modernising the language and dotting his journey with explanatory and often amusing footnotes.
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    34 mins
  • Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sam Leith - 10th December 2024

    Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Sam Leith - 10th December 2024
    Dec 12 2024
    Listen to Sam Leith on The Haunted Wood, A History of Childhood Reading.

    Sam was speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on 10th December 2024. Sponsored by Noble Caledonia. Photos by Neil Spence.
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    10 mins
  • Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gyles Brandreth - 10th December 2024

    Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Gyles Brandreth - 10th December 2024
    Dec 12 2024
    Gyles Brandreth: Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries & 7 Secrets of Happiness & Prose & Cons: The English Language in Just a Minute.
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    11 mins
  • Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Stephen Fry

    Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Stephen Fry
    Dec 11 2024
    Stephen Fry speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 10th December on his latest book Odyssey.

    The lunch was sponsored by Noble Caledonia. Photos by Neil Spence.
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    23 mins