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The Oldie Magazine - Thursday 11th March
In the April issue
What's in this month's Oldie?
Jane Gardam's wooden hat mystery * Top Dump: Notting Hill * Oldie of the Year Award Winners * A.N. Wilson: Me and My Blueberries * Jean, Stewart and Me * Patrick Reyntiens.. and much much more...
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Literary lunch videos
We have been videoing the speeches at our Literary Lunches. This week: Tony Benn.
Memorialwatch
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Cartoon caption competition
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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...
| “Oh come on, all I did was forget the milk, I don't need a flippin' lecture” |
| “I'm afraid I can't discuss individual cases” |
| “What ever happened to 'you can't take it with you'?” |
| “We are gathered here today more in celebration of his life than in sadness at his death” |
| “Pay attention or I'll sack the lot of you” |
| “And we are also meeting out target for reducing armed robbery from post office branches” |
| “Dawkins must be stopped from calling us 'primitive'. Get me a wax doll and some pins...” |
| “Sorry Darling, I ran out of things to burn” |
| “Paul, can I bounce a few ideas off you?” |
| “Quick! One of this lot is about to have their hopes and dreams blown apart!” |
| “It's like 'The Sorrow and The Pity', but funny” |
| “If you want your steak well-done, there's a five pound gas supplement” |
| “Before we put you under, you need to sign your death warrant” |
| “Anything else I can help you with?” |
| “Your ideas are outstanding, Beresford. I'm glad I thought of them.” |
| “He's trying to kick-start the housing market” |
| “Your son has head-lice. Unfortunately, they belong to a protected species” |
| “Don't mention his head” |
| “If you have been affected by the issues raised by the video of our holiday in Norfolk, you can call this number...” |
| “I suffer from a nut allergy - I only have to see a picture of Muhammed Al Fayed and I feel queasy” |
| “I'm not sure if he's a born-again Christian or a smack-head” |
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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.Click here for more details
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.Click here to read the full article
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.Click here for Richard Ingrams' thoughts on Oldie cartoons
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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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Richard Ingrams in The Independent
One of the many good things about Michael Foot, who died this week aged 96, was his refusal to accept honours. With his many achievements as a politician and a writer he could have had anything he chose - Sir Michael, Lord Foot of Hampstead Heath, the Companion of Honour, even the Order of Merit. But he went to his grave as plain Michael Foot, an example to us all.
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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..."
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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