Joanna Lumley

Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out review – when Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley cackle, it’s sheer joy

This retrospective on how Jennifer Saunders’s sitcom went from shambles to all-time great has a national treasure gravitas to it – and the juicy anecdotes make the show sing

Rebecca Nicholson

17, Oct, 2024 @10:00 PM

The week in audio: The Wonder of Stevie; Greatest Hits Radio 60s; Archive on 4; Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman – review

The Obamas, Janelle Monáe et al sing the praises of Stevie Wonder’s genius; Ken Bruce and Joanna Lumley are a dream 60s radio team. Plus, assorted horrors nuclear and otherwise

Miranda Sawyer

21, Sep, 2024 @4:00 PM

Rivals to Slow Horses: the must-see TV for autumn 2024

A Jilly Cooper bonkbuster! The successor to Succession! More Gavin and Stacey! Television is going to be incredible this autumn. Here’s a guide to all the unmissable viewing

Alexi Duggins, Kate Abbott and Stuart Heritage

24, Aug, 2024 @10:00 AM

‘The audience just looks at what your genitals are like’: why Joanna Lumley thinks we should axe sex scenes

It’s rude, distracting – and the acting equivalent of having your pants pulled down in a playground. Should we call time on them?

Stuart Heritage

27, Feb, 2024 @2:49 PM

Fool Me Once to The Brothers Sun: the seven best shows to stream this week

Michelle Keegan and Joanna Lumley head up the new Harlan Coben thriller, and Michelle Yeoh stars in a tongue-in-cheek comedy about Taiwanese gangsters in LA

Phil Harrison

29, Dec, 2023 @7:00 AM

Zoos are the opposite of educational: they construct fictions about their captives | Martha Gill

Joanna Lumley’s call to free UK elephants has exposed flaws in conservation claims

Martha Gill

22, Oct, 2023 @5:34 AM

Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure review – a deeply problematic travelogue

The actor is as eccentrically enthusiastic as ever. But do we really want her to visit former colonies riven by genocide to look at the tasty ingredients they produce?

Lucy Mangan

05, Jul, 2023 @9:00 PM

TV tonight: Nora from Queens is back, still dissatisfied and still a delight

Awkwafina’s millennial returns for a third series – and a scolding from her grandma. Plus: Joanna Lumley finds enchantment where there is patently none. Here’s what to watch this evening

Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall, Hannah Verdier and Stuart Heritage

05, Jul, 2023 @5:20 AM

‘We all had to take our tops off’: Joanna Lumley on acting, travel – and her hatred of sex scenes

Born in India to a military family, Lumley found fame as a model and actor in the 1960s. As she begins a new TV travel series, she discusses her ancestral history, single motherhood and the joy of playing Patsy Stone

Emine Saner

21, Jun, 2023 @4:00 AM

Scrappy, surreal and sincere: how Late Night Lycett reinvigorates the British chatshow

Comedian and presenter Joe Lycett has birthed what feels like an instant classic – knowingly modern, goofy and refreshingly hectic

Dylan B Jones

07, Apr, 2023 @2:00 PM

The week in audio: Joanna & the Maestro; Conversations from a Long Marriage; Real Money; Ken Bruce

Joanna Lumley delights in musical exchanges with her real husband, and turns up the comedy with a fictional spouse; the excellent Aleks Krotoski tells the story of cryptocurrency Tether; and Ken Bruce pulls a shocker

Miranda Sawyer

21, Jan, 2023 @5:00 PM