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Interview: Gene Wilder
by Mavis Nicholson

Hollywood's comic genius talks to Mavis Nicholson about heaven, hell, life, death, and why he discourages people from becoming actors…

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Enfield Snr
Gardening with guns

I looked out to see two squirrels eating corn meant for the birds. So I got my gun and I shot one...

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Do Nothing to Change Your Life
by Stephen Cottrell

There is power in sitting still and doing nothing, says the Bishop of Reading

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The Columns
What are The Oldie's regular writers talking about this month?

SUPERBYWAYS, by Webster. The Great Firewall of China

DR STUTTAFORD'S SURGERY
Potency, prostates and skin changes

VIRGINIA IRONSIDE: GRANNY ANNEXE
In with the old, out with the new

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ENFIELD SNR
City life – hock, stock and who's making barrels of dosh?
AN ORTHODOX VOICE: John Michell
Germany, a summer idyll

GOD... with Melanie McDonagh
On inter-faith dialogue

MAMMON... with Margaret Dibben
On travel insurance and discrimination

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
Diarmaid O Muirithe – Stock, gorse, wiglice and Evil Eye

UNWRECKED ENGLAND
Candida Lycett Green on the UK's unspoilt places. This month: Southwell, Nottinghamshire

ROVING REPORTER, by John Sweeney
A tribute to the veteran foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler