This month's featured column...new from Jane Thynne



  

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Kim Sengupta talks to political documentary maker Norma Percy about life in the TV frontline.

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Nick Thorpe meets King Michael of Romania

An Epistolary Madness?

Edward Enfield on writing to the great and the good - and not getting much in reply Elwyn Jones reports from inside a Carolina jail, where he is serving a life sentence for murder

Friends of The Oldie bring us their favourite reads of 2011
 

I once met..

Mark Ellen on the nerve-wracking experience of being a celebrity walker to Joan Collins

RANT

Richard Ingrams has a tilt at rail announcements

John Amis meets one of our favourite operatic baritones as he celebrates 40 years with the Royal Opera House

In the Soup

Roger Lewis reports on the benefits and otherwise of empty-nest syndrome
Jamie Douglas-Home laments the money and effort that have been wasted by Prince Charles on Dumfries House - or should that be Dumpfries House?

Travel

James Pettifer reports from Edipsos in Greece, where an ancient thermal spa still functions