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

411: Merlin Holland at the Oldie Literary Lunch

November 5, 2025 • 16 mins
Merlin Holland speaking about his new book, After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on November 4th 2025.
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410: Sarah Vine at the Oldie Literary Lunch

November 5, 2025 • 7 mins
Sarah Vine speaking about her new book, How Not to be a Political Wife, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on November 4th 2025.
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409: Ysenda Maxtone-Graham at the Oldie Literary Lunch

November 5, 2025 • 11 mins
Ysenda Maxtone-Graham speaking about her new book, Screams: Shrieks of Horror and Yelps of Pleasure from Modern Life, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on November 4th 2025.
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408: Edward Fox in conversation with Harry Mount

November 3, 2025 • 31 mins
Edward Fox tells Harry Mount about playing Sir Brian Horrocks in A Bridge Too Far and his starring role as Edward VIII in Edward & Mrs Simpson. He details his extraordinary acting bloodline and explains how he approached the melon-shooting scene in The Day of the Jackal.
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407: Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

October 27, 2025 • 34 mins
Daniel Finkelstein is an award-winning political commentator and journalist.  He’s a Times columnist, and author of his 2023 memoir, Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad. Previously he was a politician and political advisor to John Major and William Hague. He was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2013.  

He talks to Charlotte Metcalf about his book and his parents – his mother was sent to Bergen-Belsen, his fat...
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406: Jeremy Hunt in conversation with Harry Mount

October 20, 2025 • 21 mins
Jeremy Hunt, former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, tells Harry Mount about his new book, Can We Be Great Again?: Why a Dangerous World Needs Britain.
He sympathises with Rachel Reeves about the prospect of dealing with a mammoth deficit – and recalls meeting Donald Trump at Chequers.
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405: Gus Christie in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

October 13, 2025 • 24 mins
Gus Christie took Glyndebourne Opera over from his father George in 2000.  He tells us about Glyndebourne’s beginnings when his grandfather John Christie fell in love with and married the soprano Audrey Mildmay and decided to build her an opera house. Gus also reflects on his own decision to step into his father’s shoes, describes his vision and tells us about the upcoming Autumn Festival.

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404: Jonathan Dimbleby at the Oldie Literary Lunch

October 8, 2025 • 13 mins
Jonathan Dimbleby speaking about his new book, Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on October 7th 2025.
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403: Jeremy Hunt at the Oldie Literary Lunch

October 8, 2025 • 11 mins
Jeremy Hunt speaking about his new book, Can We Be Great Again?: Why a Dangerous World Needs Britain, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on October 7th 2025.
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402: Frances Wilson at the Oldie Literary Lunch

October 7, 2025 • 13 mins
Frances Wilson speaking about her new book, Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on October 7th 2025.
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401: Gyles Brandreth in conversation with Harry Mount

October 6, 2025 • 46 mins
Gyles Brandreth tells Harry Mount about his new book about Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne and Gyles’s friend, Christopher Robin Milne. Winnie the Pooh first appeared in print 100 years ago.
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400: A N Wilson at the Dartmouth Literary Festival

September 29, 2025 • 60 mins
A N Wilson in conversation with Harry Mount at this month's Dartmouth Literary Festival, sponsored by The Oldie.

A N Wilson chatted about two of his books, Goethe: His Faustian Life andVictoria: A Life.  In a dazzling talk, he discusses Queen Victoria's hidden child with John Brown and how Goethe discovered evolution before Darwin.
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399: Alexander McCall Smith in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

September 18, 2025 • 29 mins
Alexander McCall Smith is a prolific and fast writer, known mainly for his best-selling series The Number One Ladies Detective Agency in Botswana and featuring his popular heroine Mama Precious Ramotswe. 

The books have been translated into 46 languages and sold millions worldwide. These and his numerous other books, including the Scotland Street series, have earned him a global reputation, a CBE and in 2024 a knighth...
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398: Rachel Johnson in conversation with Harry Mount

September 15, 2025 • 33 mins
Journalist and broadcaster Rachel Johnson tells Harry Mount about her competitive upbringing, her imposter syndrome and the collapse of The Lady magazine. 
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397: Amanda Barrie at the Oldie Literary Lunch

September 9, 2025 • 12 mins
Amanda Barrie speaking about her new book, I'm Still Here: My 90 Years, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on September 9th 2025
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396: Paula Byrne at the Oldie Literary Lunch

September 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Paula Byrne speaking about her new book, Six Weeks by the Sea: The Summer Jane Austen Fell in Love , at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on September 9th 2025.”
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395: Eleanor Doughty at the Oldie Literary Lunch

September 9, 2025 • 12 mins
Eleanor Doughty speaking about her new book, Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, at the Oldie Literary Lunch, held at London’s National Liberal Club, on September 9th 2025.
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394: Harry Mount in conversation with Antonia Fraser

September 8, 2025 • 28 mins
At 93, Antonia Fraser, one of our leading historians, has written her 40th book – The House that Spoke: The History of a Home.

She tells Harry Mount about 70 years of writing, going all the way back to her 1954 debut, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. And she talks about her west London house, where she wrote her 1969 bestseller, Mary, Queen of Scots – and her late husband, Harold Pinter, wrote Betrayal ...
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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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