The Oldie Magazine - June 2020
The Oldie Magazine - June 2020
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In this issue
● The Oldie has been dubbed ‘Private Eye for grown-ups’ and is read by intelligent people who are fed up with the formulaic nature of the celebrity-obsessed national press
● As well as having a lively reviews section, The Oldie is packed with the very best cartoons
● The Oldie is published every four weeks and has 92–122 pages. Every quarter we publish The Oldie Review of Books with the main magazine, as well as a foreign travel supplement in January, a UK travel supplement in March, a Christmas Gift Guide in November and a cartoon calendar
She's a Lady!
I first became a Lady in 1961.
2 mins
Hammer glamour girl recalls the horror!
When ailing Hammer Films needed a boost 50 years ago, budding actress Madeline Smith discovered nudity was a must
5 mins
The best of times...
The great novelist died 150 years ago, on 9th June 1870, aged 58. Four writers tell Simon Hemelryk their favourite Dickens moment
6 mins
Eyes and the needle
After cancer surgery, Lucy Deedes thought she was tough as old boots – and then she faced the agony of a cataract op
4 mins
The awkward art of acting English
Diffidence, restraint, over-politeness... Robert Bathurst, the modern master of playing Englishmen, salutes the craft of his heroes
5 mins
Farewell to the garden of a lifetime
Christian Lamb helped plan D-Day. Now, as she turns 100, she leaves a beloved garden
5 mins
Treasured island
Tamsin Calidas left London for a Hebridean crofter’s life. She found heartache, rejection by locals – and redemption through swimming
5 mins
Las Vegas, Yorkshire
In the late Sixties, a miners’ club near Leeds hosted stars from Louis Armstrong to Eartha Kitt, discovers Reverend Steve Morris
5 mins
My Canterbury tale
850 years after Thomas à Becket’s murder, Ferdie Rous revisits his Kent school, the oldest in the world, and exorcises his bullies’ ghosts
5 mins
More eccentricity, vicar?- LUCINDA LAMBTON
The Rev Stephen Hawker designed his own Cornish vicarage, was friends with Tennyson – and liked dressing up as a mermaid
6 mins
The Oldie Magazine Description:
Publisher: Oldie Publications Ltd
Category: Culture
Language: English
Frequency: 13 Issues/Year
The idea for the Oldie was conceived by Richard Ingrams, who was the editor for 22 years, and Alexander Chancellor.
● The Oldie is 23 years old this year. It is not a retirement magazine but an irreverent humorous magazine packed with great writing. 92% of our readers state ‘reading’ as their number one hobby
● The Oldie has been dubbed ‘Private Eye for grown-ups’ and is read by intelligent people who are fed up with the formulaic nature of the celebrity-obsessed national press
● As well as having a lively reviews section, The Oldie is packed with the very best cartoons
● The Oldie is published every four weeks and has 92–122 pages. Every quarter we publish The Oldie Review of Books with the main magazine, as well as a foreign travel supplement in January, a UK travel supplement in March, a Christmas Gift Guide in November and a cartoon calendar
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