Radio Oldie

Radio Oldie

The Oldie magazine’s podcast featuring discussion and debate around the lead features in the latest magazine, plus live recordings from our famous Literary Lunches. Presented by Harry Mount.

Episodes

393: Joshua Levine in conversation with Harry Mount

September 2, 2025 • 24 mins
Joshua Levine, one of our leading Second World War historians, talks to Harry Mount about the 85th anniversary of the Blitz - which began on September 7 1940.
Levine's book The Secret History of the Blitz led to him advising film director Steve McQueen for his 2024 film Blitz. 
His book Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk inspired Christopher Nolan to make Dunkirk (2017), for which Levine was the historical advisor.
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392: Andrew Lownie in conversation with Harry Mount

August 23, 2025 • 35 mins
On Radio Oldie, Prince Andrew's biographer, Andrew Lownie, talks to Harry Mount. His new book Entitled - The Rise and Fall of the House of York is a number one bestseller. It reveals how Prince Andrew, the late Queen's favourite, was disgraced by his greed for money and sex.
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391: Fay Maschler in conversation with Harry Mount

August 15, 2025 • 37 mins
Fay Maschler, the restaurant critic, tells Harry Mount about 53 years of reviewing restaurants. The Evening Standard critic for 48 years, she is now Tatler's critic. She reveals London's greatest restaurant - and explains why 1987 was the year that changed the British eating landscape for ever.
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390: John Lloyd in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

July 31, 2025 • 40 mins
John Lloyd is a multi-award-winning television and radio producer. He is the creator of Not the Nine O’Clock News, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder,  Spitting Image, QI, The Museum of Curiosity and much more.  In 2011 was awarded a CBE for services to broadcasting.

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389: Rachel Kelly in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

July 31, 2025 • 30 mins
Rachel Kelly is a bestselling author, keynote speaker and mental health advocate, who has just published her new book The Gift of Teenagers, recently serialised in the Daily Mail.  A former Times journalist, Rachel has been named one of the UK’s top five mental health influencers and is an official ambassador for the mental health charities Rethink Mental Illness and SANE.  

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388: Helen Lederer in conversation with Harry Mount

July 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Helen Lederer tells Harry Mount about a life in comedy.
A stand-up comedian at the Comedy Store, she has starred with Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ben Elton and the late Rik Mayall, . And she excelled as Catriona, the dim Sloane in Absolutely Fabulous.
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387: Sarah Sands in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

July 21, 2025 • 30 mins
Sarah Sands is a well-known journalist. She edited Readers’ Digest, the Sunday Telegraph and the Evening Standard before becoming editor of Today, BBC Four’s flagship news programme. Recently she abandoned her career in exchange for a quieter, more fluid life and has written three books about monasticism, faith and inner peace.  She also now organises pilgrimages. She talks to Charlotte Metcalf about her time in journalism, th...
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386: Philippa Langley at the Oldie Literary Lunch

July 16, 2025 • 13 mins
Philippa Langley speaking about her new book, The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on July 15th 2025.
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385: David Hepworth at the Oldie Literary Lunch

July 16, 2025 • 13 mins
David Hepworth speaking about his new book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on July 15th 2025.
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384: Lucy Moore at the Oldie Literary Lunch

July 16, 2025 • 11 mins
Lucy Moore speaking about her new book, Christopher Gibbs: His World, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on July 15th 2025.
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383: Mary Kenny in conversation with Harry Mount

July 14, 2025 • 49 mins
Oldie columnist and Irish writer, Mary Kenny, tells Harry Mount about her 60 years in journalism. She salutes her old boss, the novelist Edna O'Brien, and remembers her time leading the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. And she reflects on her biography of Lord Haw-Haw, the Nazi propagandist.
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382: Nicky Haslam in conversation with Harry Mount

July 7, 2025 • 37 mins
On Radio Oldie, writer, designer and singer Nicky Haslam does a perfect Truman Capote impression. He recalls meeting Marilyn Monroe and Cole Porter. He reveals Diana Cooper's recipe for a good party – 'Too much to drink and a chocolate pudding.' And he explains why the Sistine Chapel is common.
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381: Mark Ellen in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
As we head towards the 40th anniversary of Live Aid on 13th July, Charlotte Metcalf talks to the writer and broadcaster Mark Ellen, then a hugely successful editor of magazines like New Musical Express and Time Out, Mark was plucked from The Old Grey Whistle Test to be one of the main television anchors on the concert.  He looks back at a phenomenal event and how it changed our attitudes to rock music and its role forever.
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380: Tracy Chevalier at the Oldie Literary Lunch

June 26, 2025 • 14 mins
Tracy Chevalier speaking about her new book, The Glassmaker, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on June 24th 2025.
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379: Sinclair McKay at the Oldie Literary Lunch

June 26, 2025 • 10 mins
Sinclair McKay speaking about his new book, Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice & Redemption in the City that Defied Hitler, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on June 24th 2025.
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378: Anne Sebba at the Oldie Literary Lunch

June 26, 2025 • 13 mins
Anne Sebba speaking about her new book, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on June 24th 2025.
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377: Emma, the Duchess of Rutland, in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

June 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Emma, the Duchess of Rutland, has lived at Belvoir Castle for nearly 25 years, transforming it into a going commercial concern and a comfortable home for her five children. On the eve of her oldest daughter’s wedding, she talks to Charlotte Metcalf about her book, The Accidental Duchess, her podcast and her sense of duty and commitment to keeping Belvoir a thriving concern for the next generation.

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376: James Holland in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

June 16, 2025 • 34 mins
James Holland is an eminent historian who specialises in the Second World War and has numerous books, television programmes and a podcast to his name.  He talks to Charlotte Metcalf about the forthcoming Chalke History Festival, which he co-founded in 2011, originally to raise money for a cricket pavilion.  Chalke is now the biggest history festival in the world and James tells us what to expect from this year’s exciting line-...
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375: Bruce Beresford in conversation with Harry Mount

June 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Bruce Beresford, director of Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy, tells Harry Mount why films have got too long - and what made his great friend Barry Humphries such a comic genius
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374: Nicholas Coleridge in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

June 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Nicholas Coleridge, awarded a Knighthood in 2022 for services to Museums, Publishing and the Creative Industries, has had a long career at the helm of Condé Nast, followed by ten years at the Victoria and Albert Musuem. Recently installed as Provost of Eton, Charlotte Metcalf talks to him about his new role and they look back over his extraordinary career in fashion, publishing and journalism during the golden era of magazines...
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