The Oldie Magazine - Thursday 2nd September


 
In the September issue
 
 
What's in this month's Oldie?

P.D. James's pearls of wisdom * A love affair with a tractor * Still With Us: Trevor Bailey * The Eaton Square Conspiracy *  I Once Met Jack Kerouac * Great Bores of Today... and much much more...

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Welcome! The Oldie is Richard Ingrams' humorous monthly magazine, packed with great writers and cartoons - a veritable Private Eye for grown-ups...

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Richard Ingrams in The Independent

The distinguishing mark of modern society, G K Chesterton once wrote, is a hatred of religion. If that was the case more than 100 years ago, you could magnify it 100 times over for today. Hatred is the crucial word. Not apathy or indifference, but a violent reaction of the type that can lead to intemperate, illogical language even from clever people.

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What is The Oldie?


RICHARD INGRAMS WRITES: "After editing Private Eye for over twenty years, I decided in 1992, along with a group of friends (Auberon Waugh, Alexander Chancellor and Stephen Glover), to launch The Oldie. The aim was to produce an antidote to youth culture but, more importantly, a magazine wih emphasis on good writing, humour and quality illustration..."

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The Oldie One-to-One Writing Course

Prize winning authors offer you the chance of personal tuition

Over the last few years we have held a number of one-day writing courses where a group of twenty readers assemble to listen to and engage in a series of writing workshops. However, some of you may well prefer the privacy and individual attention of a tutor all to yourselves. And you may not want to travel to London.

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The Oldie of the Year Awards 2010

Joanna Lumley won this year's Oldie of the Year for her courageous fight for the rights of Ghurkhas while P.D. James was pronounced Handbagger of the Year.

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Unwrecked England

Candida Lycett Green has been writing her Unwrecked England column for The Oldie since its launch in 1992. Her new book gathers together one hundred of her favourite places. She tells us more about the book and why these places are special.

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The Oldie Book of Cartoons

If you enjoy our cartoons you will enjoy The Oldie Cartoon Exhibition at London's Cartoon Museum where a selection of the best cartoons from The Oldie Book of Cartoons 1992-2009 will be on display. You can also buy more than 100 original cartoons just up the road at Abbott and Holder. The exhibition at the Cartoon Museum (35 Little Russell Street) and sale at Abbott and Holder (30 Museum Street, near the British Museum) both run from 1st October to 24th December. We urge you to visit both.
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The Oldie Annual 2010

 This year's Oldie Annual includes some of the very best of The Oldie's wit and wisdom over the last five years and is packed with features, columns and cartoons.



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FOR fifteen years The Oldie has been publishing tales of chance enounters with the famous and infamous – writers, artists, politicians, rogues, murderers and more besides. Browse a selection from our archive here.
 

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