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The Oldie October 2018 3
Features12 Return of the Goodies Harry Mount14 The Harold Pinter I knew Kenneth Cranham16 Haute couture for the clergy Lucy Lethbridge20 The boys who befriended Hollywood’s stars Charlotte Metcalf 22 Chekhov the gardener Sara Wheeler26 Henry VIII’s seventh wife Antonia Fraser 30 My very great grandfather William Sitwell
Regulars5 The Old Un’s Notes8 Olden Life: What was the Elizabethan? Nigel Andrew8 Modern Life: What is the intellectual dark web? Richard Godwin9 Raymond Briggs 10 Media Matters Stephen Glover32 The Way We Live Now Dafydd Jones 34 Grumpy Oldie Man Matthew Norman 35 Anne Robinson
36 Gyles Brandreth’s Diary 38 Postcards from the Edge Mary Kenny40 History David Horspool 42 Town Mouse Tom Hodgkinson43 Country Mouse Giles Wood44 I Once Met… Michael and Lindy Chamberlain44 Memory Lane46 School Days Sophia Waugh 46 Home Front Alice Pitman47 Wilfred De’Ath 49 Getting Dressed: Alexandra Pringle Brigid Keenan51 On The Road: Sheila Hancock Louise Flind52 Reader Course: Ancient London – Walking Tour 53 Rachel Johnson’s Golden Oldies54 Readers’ Letters68 Literary Lunches69 Words and Stuff Johnny Grimond 69 Rant: Firsts 74 Field Guide: Traffic Warden 82 Travel: Rome Matthew Bell 85 Travel: Cathar Country Robert Fox87 Reader Trip: Gardens of the French and Italian Riviera 88 Overlooked Britain Lucinda Lambton
89 Taking a Walk Patrick Barkham90 God Sister Teresa 90 Memorial Service Lord Stewartby James Hughes-Onslow91 Health Liz Hodgkinson92 Digital Life Matthew Webster92 Money Matters Margaret Dibben93 The Doctor’s Surgery Theodore Dalrymple 95 Bird of the Month: Teal John McEwen 97 Crossword Antico 98 Bridge Andrew Robson 98 Competition Tessa Castro106 Ask Virginia Ironside
Books57 Landfill by Tim Dee Charles Foster59 The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour Jaspreet Singh Boparai61 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari Anton Kurz 61 Dear Howard: Tales Told in Letters by David Batterham Frances Wilson
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62 City of Light: The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen Belinda Jack65 Milk of Paradise by Lucy Inglis Joe Brace66 The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Arabella Currie
Arts70 Film Marcus Berkmann71 Theatre Paul Bailey71 Radio Valerie Grove 73 Television Roger Lewis 74 Music Richard Osborne 75 Exhibitions Huon Mallalieu
Pursuits77 Gardening David Wheeler77 Kitchen Garden Simon Courtauld 78 Cookery Elisabeth Luard78 Restaurants James Pembroke79 Drink Bill Knott80 Sport Jim White 80 Motoring Alan Judd
Reader OffersFree ad on Greydar p52
Architecture Course p52 Literary Lunches p68
Come to the Riviera p87
ABC circulation figureJan–June 2018: 45,332
Pinter’s people page 14 Articles of faith page 16 The Sitwells remembered page 30
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