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The Oldie January 2021 3
Features13 She has overcome – Joan Baez turns 80 Simon Hemelryk15 Dreaming of a dry Christmas Mary Killen16 Burt’s amateur performance Nick Newman18 Holy Hitch Alice Cockerell19 The end of National Service Charles Pasternak20 My gaudy nights Oswyn Murray22 Christmas commonplaces Harry Mount24 The Archers turns 70 Gill Powell28 How to write a memoir Frances Wilson30 Still living with my parents at the age of 50 Jeremy Clarke31 Guests from hell Tanya Gold32 My brainy pin-ups Bel Mooney 34 Swell party-givers Charlotte Metcalf35 Jeremy Lewis Prize: the winner35 Panto in Iraq Janet Lawrence36 Yorkshire Ripper’s lawyer Duncan Campbell37 The best book titles Rachel Johnson
Regulars5 The Old Un’s Notes7 Bliss on Toast Prue Leith
9 Gyles Brandreth’s Diary10 Grumpy Oldie Man Matthew Norman 12 Olden Life: What was a serinette? Deborah Nash12 Modern Life: What is K-pop? Richard Godwin38 Town Mouse Tom Hodgkinson39 Country Mouse Giles Wood40 Postcards from the Edge Mary Kenny42 Letter from America Dominic Green43 Profitable Wonders James Le Fanu44 School Days Sophia Waugh44 The I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue story Barry Cryer45 Home Front Alice Pitman46 God Sister Teresa 46 Memorial Service: Colonel John Waddy, OBE James Hughes-Onslow 47 The Doctor’s Surgery Theodore Dalrymple 48 Readers’ Letters50 I Once Met… Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas and Jack Palance Piers Pottinger50 Memory Lane65 Media Matters Stephen Glover 67 History David Horspool69 Words and Stuff Johnny Grimond
69 Rant: Modern job titles Adam Burgess97 Crossword99 Bridge Andrew Robson99 Competition Tessa Castro106 Ask Virginia Ironside
Books53 A Promised Land, by Barack Obama Ivo Dawnay 55 Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, by Dolly Parton and Robert K Oermann Tanya Gold57 Types and Shadows: The Roy Strong Diaries 2004-2015, by Roy Strong Nicola Shulman57 The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain, by Ian Mortimer Kate Hubbard59 News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World, by Alan Rusbridger Matthew Norman61 Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology, edited by Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan Hamish Robinson63 Collected Stories, by Shirley Hazzard Cressida Connolly
Travel88 King of the Purbeck Stone Age Treleven Haysom
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90 Joe O’Biden’s Irish home Dea Birkett 92 Taking a Walk: Covehithe, Suffolk Patrick Barkham93 On the Road: Emma Bridgewater Louise Flind
Arts70 My brilliant year Dame Edna Everage71 Netflix: The Crown & Diana: In Her Own Words Harry Mount71 Radio Valerie Grove 72 Television Roger Lewis 73 Music Richard Osborne74 Golden Oldies Rachel Johnson 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 Judd82 Digital Life Matthew Webster 82 Money Matters Margaret Dibben 85 Getting Dressed: Keeping up appearances Liz Hodgkinson 87 Bird of the Month: Goldcrest John McEwen
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Burt Reynolds does am-dram page 16 Christmas guests from Hell page 31 Hold back the years with style page 85
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