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HM the Queen has saluted the 2021 Oldies of the Year, declaring that 'Her Majesty believes you are as old as you feel.'
@RoyalFamily
@ClarenceHouse
@TheSavoyLondon
#youareasoldasyoufeel
sponsored by
@BaillieGifford
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The Duchess of Cornwall has laid out her aims for the future in a ground-breaking speech at an Oldie lunch.
@ClarenceHouse
@nlclondon
Here is her speech in full:
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HRH Duke of Kent and royal correspondent Hugo Vickers at The Oldie of the Year Awards 2022 where HRH Duke of Kent was awarded The Oldie First-time Author of the Year Award
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Happy 100th birthday, Rupert Bear!
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Peter Firmin did more to influence British children in the late 20th century than anyone else. Together with Oliver Postgate, he created Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog and the Clangers; he also co-created Basil Brush, one of our 2018 Oldies of the Year
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RIP Doris Day (1992-2019). One of the greats and also one of the wise...
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children – Doris Day
#DorisDay
#ripdorisday
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A very happy birthday to one of our best loved columnists, Gyles Brandreth!
Many happy returns,
@GylesB1
!
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'You are as old as you feel' - HM the Queen salutes the Oldies of the Year -
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Oldie favourite Nicholas Parsons will be awarded the Harvey Lee Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting by
@BPGPressGuild
on Friday! A richly deserved win for the
#JustAMinute
chair
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'I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.' Groucho Marx
#WorldBookDay
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Photo of Barry Humphries
@Barry_Humphries
legendary writer for The Oldie. We will miss him very much. Rest in peace.
@neilspencephoto
@OldieMagazine
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In 2015, Sir
#KenDodd
was our Oldie of the Year. Craig Brown, a lifelong fan, wrote an appreciation – 'He aims to crack six jokes a minute, or roughly 360 an hour. He delivers them so fast that you are generally laughing at the last joke but three.'
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Love Island stars have used the word 'like' 76 times in 5 minutes. Gyles Brandreth (
@GylesB1
) is not best pleased
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The great Leslie Phillips who has died today at 98. He gave his last interview to The Oldie Magazine…
#lesliephillips
#oldiemagazine
#oldieoftheyearawards
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It was arguably the greatest TV sitcom, and for one young actor, it was the greatest experience of his life.
#IanLavender
tells the inside story of Dad’s Army in the April Oldie
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During these difficult times, the great Barry Cryer, who's just turned 85, will be telling a daily joke to Oldie readers
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Leslie Phillips turns 95 today. Alice Pitman speaks to him about his colourful and varied, which has been so much more than a few ‘Ding dongs’...
#CarryOn
#LesliePhillips
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Amanda 'Cleopatra' Barrie accepts the Keep Calm and Carry On Award for the entire Carry On team.
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'I’m going to quote Bernard Shaw as he said about Ellen Terry – "she never seemed old to me." Well, nor you to me.'
#DameJudiDench
giving the award for Palmer d’Or Oldie of the Year to Geoffrey Palmer
#TOOTY
@GylesB1
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'I'm not really gluten intolerant, I just enjoy annoying people'
@nikscottglobal
#toonoftheday
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Three years after Bobby Ball died, Tommy Cannon, his bereft comedy partner, is back on stage. He talks to William Cook
#cannonandball
#newissue
#OutNow
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‘The trouble with naked dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops…’ Gyles Brandreth recalls reactions to Oh, Calcutta!
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'Yes, but Daddy may not feel like laughing when he comes round from his operation'
#toonoftheday
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In 2014, Nicholas Parsons won The Oldie's Dorian Gray Award.
On winning, he noted that a fuchsia had recently been named after him.
The notes on the plant's label read:
'Nicholas Parsons will do well in any bed. Feed well and you will have amazing results.'
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Pru & Me: A Love Story photo by
@neilspencephoto
of Timothy West CBE and Prunella Scales at The Oldie Literary Lunch
@TimothyWestNews
@oldiemagazine
#Prunella
#Alzheimers
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Desert islands will never be the same again. Thanks KJ Lamb for
@OldieMagazine
#toonoftheday
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The philosopher Roger Scruton has died, aged 75. Nine years ago, when
@david_oldbolt
was 21, he wrote him a letter and they became fast friends
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'What's mansplaining? Well, it's when one explains to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronising...'
#toonoftheday
#FridayThoughts
#cartoon
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'Tell me something about yourself that I don't already know from the internet'
#toonoftheday
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'This is Roger. Roger works at a call centre. He's busy at the moment, and will be with you shortly'
#tooonoftheday
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'You rang, texted, emailed, Instagrammed, tweeted and Facetimed, M'Lord?'
@KJLambcartoons
#toonoftheday
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‘Our great comedies are about people who are trapped.’ Barry Cryer on his friend Tony Hancock, who died 50 years ago. July Oldie
#comedy
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And in this month’s issue of
@OldieMagazine
we celebrate Jeremy Brett who died 25 years ago remembered by Damian Thompson. Greatest of all actors to play the role?
There’s been an amusing correspondence in
@Telegraph
about “the definitive” Sherlock Holmes, with Jeremy Brett, Douglas Wilmer & Basil Rathbone the front runners so far ... Another nominee appears today:
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This Sunday, lost episodes of Dad’s Army, filmed with new actors, will be shown on Gold. Gyles Brandreth (
@GylesB1
) loves them
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The Cartoon Museum has moved from Bloomsbury to a new madcap home near Oxford Street. Its splendid collection opens next week, writes Harry Mount
@Cartoonmuseumuk
#cartoon
#cartoonist
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Timothy West, Harry Mount and Prunella Scales at The Oldie Literary Lunch on Tuesday 17th October 2023
@neilspencephoto
@timothywest
@prunellascales
@mounth
@OldieMagazine
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Felicity Owen, who has died aged 92, introduced the hamburger to Britain. Sixty years ago, she opened a Wimpy Bar in Reading, one of the first in Britain. At the time, they were the height of glamour
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The London Cartoon Show is on at Charing Cross Library until 1st September. Organised by
@procartoonists
and sponsored by
@mayorsfund
, the collection is a delight, says
@Ferdie_Rous
#TheLondonCartoonShow
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Our Xmas bird - the Goldcrest courtesy of
@carry_akroyd
in this month’s
@OldieMagazine
for you all
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On receiving her award as Oldie Silver Screen Star of the Year, Sheila Hancock said how weird it was playing a leading lady, in Edie, at the age of 85.
#oldieoftheyearawards
#Oldies
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The great cartoonist, Hector Breeze, has died.
#RIP
Here is one of his best toons!
#HectorBreeze
#cartoonist
#Cartoon
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'Thank you for holding for twenty minutes. Press 7 if you still believe your call is important to us'
#toonoftheday
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'I said we need to update our Equality and Diversity profile, you deaf old bat'
#toonoftheday
#WednesdayWisdom
#cartoonist
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On June 28th,
@TalkingPicsTV
is dedicating a day to Stanley Baker. Roger Lewis salutes his fellow Welshman – and a fine actor
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