‘make your miles count!’

Meanderings we couldn’t fit into the issue, but which seemed terribly important at the time...

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

Moments enjoyed, lessons learned, handy advice, weird stuff that happened: welcome to the little bits and pieces that don’t make big stories, but do make all the difference.

Yes, you can!

I must extend my huge thanks to Jon Winder for his excellent article Swings and Roundabouts (July). I am currently scribbling notes which I hope to turn into a memoir of my childhood, and one chapter

I left drama school in the spring of 1969. I probably learned more in the first month of being a professional actor about what it was to be one than I expected would be necessary after three years of