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In the June issue
What's in this month's Oldie?
On the road with John Betjeman • On the door with an oldie bouncer • Coral Browne remembered • Death of the Country pub … and much much more…
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Are there ten or more people in your address book who are dead? Do you save string?…
New stuff
NEW! Literary lunch videos
We have been videoing the speeches at our Literary Lunches. This week: Tony Benn.
Memorialwatch
We list forthcoming memorial services. Want to publicise a service? Email us and we'll add it to the listing.
'OK, so maybe you didn't do it – but surely you've done something that you do deserve to die for?'
The Oldie of the Year Awards
The world's greatest awards ceremony took place on Tuesday 11 March. Who won the much-coveted gongs? Find out here
Richard Ingrams in the Independent
It is unfortunate that Ant and Dec, about whom I wrote last week, should now find themselves involved in yet another unseemly controversy involving their television show.
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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.
