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Oberammergau – the town that promised God a play
Jan 16, 202022 min
I loved Kenny with all my everything
Jan 3, 202026 min
Louis XIV – the king who loved war too much
Jan 2, 202028 min
Gyles Brandreth on Dancing by the Light of the Moon
Dec 5, 201919 min
Victoria Hislop on Those who are loved
Dec 5, 201916 min
Philip Mansel on King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
Dec 5, 201911 min
Not the Nine O'Clock News recalled 40 years on
Dec 5, 201946 min
Venus & Aphrodite: History of a Goddess by Bettany Hughes
Nov 25, 201916 min
Scott of the Antarctic: hero or bungler?
Nov 19, 201930 min
Lloyd George nearly lost us the war
Nov 7, 201913 min
A Sparrow's Life as Sweet as Ours
Nov 7, 201912 min
What were the three traumas of London's history?
Nov 7, 201917 min
Troy – the cradle of a thousand heroes and heroines
Oct 23, 201921 min
34: Gamesmanship and other Potterisms
Oct 16, 201915 min
Wiliam Dalrymple – The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Oct 10, 201949 min
Was Maggie Thatcher a prude? asks Charles Moore
Oct 10, 201916 min
A N Wilson on the man who saved the Monarchy
Oct 10, 20198 min
33: Peter Hitchens: we won the war, or did we?
Sep 20, 201937 min
32: October Issue: Abbey Road – The Beatles's Best Studio Album?
Sep 12, 201931 min
31: October Issue: Dominic Green's Downton Abbey Suit
Sep 10, 201912 min
September Issue: Toffs vs Servants in Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
Aug 20, 201913 min
30: David Kynaston and Francis Green on Britain's educational apartheid
Aug 16, 201913 min
29: Douglas Carswell's manifesto for optimism
Aug 16, 201911 min
29: Anne de Courcy on Chanel's saucy secrets
Aug 16, 201911 min
28: August Issue: Granny, I hardly knew you
Jul 12, 201915 min
27: Tim Waterstone on how he built his brand
Jul 12, 201912 min
Antony Beevor on the British obsession with Operation Market Garden
Jul 12, 201914 min
26: Anna Pasternak speaks about the kindhearted Wallis Simpson
Jul 12, 201912 min
25: July Issue: Barry Cryer on 60 years in comedy
Jun 11, 201928 min
25: Why did Lord Carrington hate Boris Johnson?
Jun 11, 201910 min
24: Rachel Kelly outlines the three things that helped her beat depression
Jun 11, 201911 min
23: Chris Mullin on the prescience of A Very British Coup
Jun 11, 201910 min
22: Sara Lodge on singing Edward Lear
May 22, 201911 min
21: Adrian Tinniswood on the Queen Mother's steady drinking
May 22, 201912 min
20: Getting through D-Day – Giles Milton talks Eisenhower, Pegasus Bridge and Rommel
May 14, 201921 min
19: Giles Milton on a commando's unexpected encounter with Erwin Rommel
May 9, 201912 min
19: Robert Hutton on MI5's most secret agent: Jack King
May 9, 201910 min
18: Christopher Howse on the angriest landlord in London
May 9, 201916 min
Prince Albert's Coburg – 'the stud farm of Europe'
Apr 15, 201927 min
Prue Leith on Bake Off, Bomb scares and Explosive Marmalade
Apr 4, 201911 min
Hugo Vickers on the unusual girth of the Queen's great-grandmother
Apr 4, 20198 min
17: Matthew Sturgis on the celebrity of Oscar Wilde
Apr 4, 201913 min
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais remember Ronnie Barker, Porridge and The Likely Lads
Mar 14, 201939 min
16: Look, no wrinkles – Mary Killen on the lazy facelift
Feb 19, 201912 min
15: Why Brian Clough swore at Motty
Feb 12, 201917 min
14: William Keegan on the relief of decimalisation
Feb 12, 201910 min
13: Lady Colin Campbell on the unbridled masculinity of Prince Philip
Feb 12, 201910 min
Oldie Keep Calm and Carry On Award winner Amanda Barrie on Carry On
Jan 30, 201939 min
12: Robert Hardman on Queen of the World at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Dec 14, 201812 min
11: Kenneth Baker on On The Seven Deadly Sins at the Oldie Literary Lunch
Dec 14, 201813 min