Breaking boundaries

A new television series out this autumn is sure to inspire us all. Find out what it’s really like to be in a band during midlife

Laura London, 41, lives in north London and is a professional magician. I saw magic for the first time when I was eight and was instantly obsessed. After that, I spent all my pocket money on tricks. I

Lianne Harrison, 52, had just moved and felt low. Then an impulsive decision changed everything…

AMELIA BULLMORE, LORRAINE ASHBOURNE, ROSALIE CRAIG, JOANNA SCANLAN and TAMSIN GREIG on teaming up to form a punk-rock band

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

SORRY, did I wake you up?” Linda asked. Her bleary-eyed and pyjama-clad flatmate, Pat, had stumbled into their tiny kitchen one summer morning. “It’s five o’clock in the morning, Linda,” Pat moaned, s