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The Mystery Cat Of Shugborough Hall
The Oldie Magazine

The Mystery Cat Of Shugborough Hall

‘For picturesque grounds and garden furnishings few houses can compete with Shugborough’; no mean praise from Sir Nikolaus Pevsner himself in his The Buildings of England series, covering Staffordshire.

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3 mins  |
June 2017
In His Own Words
The Oldie Magazine

In His Own Words

An extract from Lewis’s Grub Street Irregular.

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4 mins  |
June 2017
My Grandfather Wrote The Princess's Speech
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My Grandfather Wrote The Princess's Speech

Seventy years ago, the Queen made her most famous broadcast to mark her 21st birthday. Charles Utley reveals how it came to be written.

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4 mins  |
June 2017
Britain's Alarm Clock
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Britain's Alarm Clock

The Today programme is a British institution. It has a new editor, and in October turns sixty. Harry Mount got up early to pay a visit.

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6 mins  |
June 2017