The Oldie, the magazine that dares to be interesting . . .

How would you like a monthly magazine which is…

• Unpredictable and eclectic
• Where Britain’s best writers express themselves freely and passionately
• Where books and the arts are reviewed without mercy
• A sanctuary for all who are irritated by our celebrity-obsessed media and culture
• Full of cartoons and is very funny

…and celebrates the unusual and eccentric?

Edited by ex-Private Eye man Richard Ingrams, The Oldie is emphatically not a magazine about retirement. We recognise that what our readers want more than anything else is good writing and amusing articles on a wide variety of topics. It is for any independent-minded reader.

As well as all the regular book reviews (recent reviewers have included Tony Benn and Colin Dexter), arts and theatre, travel and columns (Virginia Ironside and John Sweeney to name just two), The Oldie has regular interviews with MPs, writers, comedians and those currently in the news. Our "I Once Met" feature is written by our readers, telling of their run-ins with the famous and infamous, while our "Anorak" column is written by a different geek every month (music critic Stuart Maconie recently confessed all). You’ll find a sense of humour an advantage.

Plus! The Oldie Review of Books is our free quarterly supplement which gives you a digest of reviews of the sixty best books of the quarter. We compile not just our own views but those of all the national press and leading magazines to ensure you get the best picture. This is in addition to our renowned book sections and reviewers.

May Issue

• My week with Henry Miller: Jeremy Hornsby tells the tale

• What is 'stepping aside'? Norma Deplume on the BBC

• The repulsive underbelly of Scientology - and its surprising supporters

• Lady Chatterley: the youngest witness

• What was the Caberet Club really like?

May Oldie

• My week with Henry Miller
1961, Juan-les-Pins. Young hack Jeremy Hornsby’s journalistic dream comes true when not only does the chap he has befriended over ping-pong turn out to be Henry Miller, but the normally publicity-shy Miller allows him to write down their conversations for publication. An excited Hornsby sends his scoop to the Daily Express. Find out what happens next on page 42...

•What is ‘stepping aside’?
Oldie regular Norman Deplume confirms our worst fears (in fact it’s worse than we feared) about the parlous state of BBC management in this month’s Modern Life, page 17.

• The repulsive underbelly of Scientology – and its surprising supporters
John Sweeney lifts the lid on the aggressive and unsavoury goings-on under Miscavige’s tenure as cult boss. He also names some of its influential British apologists. See page 24.

• Lady Chatterley: the youngest witness
Psychotherapist and novelist Bernadine Bishop (née Wall) was the youngest person to testify at the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960, and yes, the fresh-faced convent girl just down from Cambridge was familiar with the four-letter words in the book. Bishop talks to Valerie Grove on page 12.

PLUS: 

the British Schindler (p7); Wilfred De’Ath being really rather horrible about his fellow residents (p27); Peter Jay on William Keegan on Gordon Brown (p61); Brian Moore’s Six Nations round-up (p 74); Alice Pitman’s dog-training triumphs (p75)...