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In the Summer issue

What's in this month's Oldie?

Tony Benn shares his invention • Raymond Briggs rants • Zenga Longmore on dog discrimination • Daemienne Sheehan interviews granny trannies … and much much more…

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New stuff
NEW! Literary lunch videos

We have been videoing the speeches at our Literary Lunches. This week: Tony Benn.

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Memorialwatch

We list forthcoming memorial services. Want to publicise a service? Email us and we'll add it to the listing.

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NEW! Cartoon caption competition

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Richard Ingrams in the Independent

WE'RE NOT looking for anyone else. That used to be the traditional police response when a convicted murderer was proved innocent and shown to have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

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The Oldie Cover Prints

 
The Oldie’s classic cover images by illustrators such as Posy Simmonds and Quentin Blake are now available to buy either as prints, with the option of framing, or on canvas. To see the full range of Oldie covers click here.

 

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.