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Emma Kennedy is quite possibly the most multi-talented podcast guest I’ve interviewed. The 55-year-old is an accomplished author, producer, playwright, TV scriptwriter, she wrote The Kenn...
Good news! American sculptor Ruth Asawa has her first European retrospective at Modern Art Oxford.
With several decades experience designing for big name fashion brands, in her early 50s, Justine Tabak decided to launch her eponymous label. Having worked for some of the best-known British fa...
On a sunny, midweek morning, Sevenoaks Bookshop is buzzing with customers, helpful friendly staff and a busy coffee shop. Like a miniature version of Parnassus Books, there’s even a bookshop dog...
Nicky Hirst transforms found objects into works of art. The 59-year-old artist says her practise ‘sits between sculpture and installation.
My gold sandals have taken on a mythic quality. My husband says I have cupboards full, but he exaggerates.
Plants and fashion have been linked for millennia. Plants give us natural fibres for fabrics: cotton, bamboo, linen from flax are obvious examples – less obvious is the nettle family, which g...
Author Julie Owen-Moylan has just published her first book, That Green-Eyed Girl, at 61. She’s been writing all her life but only in her 50s did she consider it might become a career; finally se...
When I recorded the podcast episode with Lucinda Chambers she was incredibly gracious and warm and welcomed us into her home. Chez Chambers is as super-chic and stripey as you would imagine; an...
Walking is absolutely the most accessible activity for most people, wherever you are, with no kit needed, and more of us did it during lockdown. During 2020 the number of miles walked pe...
In a week when I’ve been feeling quite despondent about how women are viewed, and how our success in the world is measured (prompted largely by the goings-on in parliament…), Booker...
Textile and print designer Molly Mahon is on a mission to infuse our homes with colour. Working from a studio at the bottom of her garden, in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, the 46-year-old uses...