Episodes

  • Oldie Podcast - Hugo Vickers in conversation with Harry Mount on Clarissa, Countess of Avon

    Oldie Podcast - Hugo Vickers in conversation with Harry Mount on Clarissa, Countess of Avon
    Nov 14 2024
    Hugo Vickers speaks to Harry Mount about his latest book on Clarissa: Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon.

    Our podcasts are sponsored by Baillie Gifford.
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    30 mins
  • Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Jacqueline Wilson on Think Again

    Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Jacqueline Wilson on Think Again
    Nov 13 2024
    Dame Jacqueline Wilson tells The Oldie Literary Lunch how she wrote her first-ever sex scene. Think Again is her first adult book. The Oldie Literary Lunch took place on 12th November 2024 at The National Liberal Club, sponsored by Kirker Holidays and photos by Neil Spence photography.
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    16 mins
  • Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - John Suchet on Finding Beethoven: A Personal Story

    Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - John Suchet on Finding Beethoven: A Personal Story
    Nov 13 2024
    Beethoven expert John Suchet tells The Oldie why he has written his eighth book on Beethoven and why this story is personal to him.

    The Oldie Literary lunch was held at The National Liberal Club on 12th November 2024, sponsored by Kirker Holidays. Photos by Neil Spence.
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    15 mins
  • Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Bendor Grosvenor on The Invention of British Art

    Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Bendor Grosvenor on The Invention of British Art
    Nov 13 2024
    Listen and watch Bendor Grosvenor talking about The Invention of British Art at The Oldie Literary Lunch 12th November 2024.

    The lunch was sponsored by Kirker Holidays. Photos by Neil Spence Photography.
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    12 mins
  • Oldie Podcast - Craig Brown in conversation with Harry Mount

    Oldie Podcast - Craig Brown in conversation with Harry Mount
    Nov 11 2024
    Craig Brown, the funniest man alive, tells Harry Mount about his latest book A Voyage Around The Queen. Listen here.

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    40 mins
  • Oldie Podcast - Leslie Caron in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

    Oldie Podcast - Leslie Caron in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf
    Oct 30 2024
    Listen to Leslie Caron, aged 93, in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf.

    Multi-award winner Leslie Caron was born in 1931 and is a French and American actress and dancer. Leslie is best known for her role in Gigi.
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    33 mins
  • Oldie Podcast - Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount on meeting JFK

    Oldie Podcast - Antonia Fraser in conversation with Harry Mount on meeting JFK
    Oct 30 2024
    As Americans go to the polls, listen to Antonia Fraser on taking a dip in the White House pool with President Kennedy – in Jackie Kennedy's swimming costume.
    In March 1962, Antonia Fraser and her husband, Conservative MP Hugh Fraser, dropped in on President Kennedy at the White House. They joined him for a dip in the White House pool - and Antonia Fraser borrowed Jackie Kennedy's swimming costume

    Hugh Fraser, my first husband, MP for Stafford and Stone since 1945, was an old friend of Jack Kennedy’s. They were exact contemporaries and first knew each other when Joe Kennedy was American Ambassador to London in 1938.

    In 1962, Hugh was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. On his way back from an official visit to British Guiana, he joined me at the British Embassy in Washington, as guests of another contemporary, David Ormsby-Gore, the new Ambassador. We were invited to swim in the White House pool by the President.

    In my photograph album, I wrote beneath the photo: Probably the most worthwhile photograph I have ever taken. First and foremost, Hugh bathing in the White House pool. Also present the President of the United States. I actually took this photograph myself, never believing it would come out (it was the last one on the reel). Our bathe in the White House pool was really the high point of our stay in Washington – and indeed of my stay in America. I managed to squeeze into Jackie Kennedy’s bathing dress and cavorted in the boiling pool [warmed up to help JFK’s back problems], hoping to catch the Presidential eye, while Hugh buttonholed him about British Guiana.
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    19 mins
  • Oldie Podcast - Griff Rhys Jones in conversation with Harry Mount

    Oldie Podcast - Griff Rhys Jones in conversation with Harry Mount
    Oct 30 2024
    Listen to Griff Rhys Jones in conversation with Harry Mount.

    Regular contributor to The Oldie, Griff Rhys Jones is a Welsh actor, comedian, writer and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith.
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    56 mins