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Joanna Lumley

February 2024

  • Joanna Lumley poses for a photo sitting on a couch in a sitting room with a marble fire place and fancy looking lamp.

    ‘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?

December 2023

  • Fool Me Once.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    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

October 2023

  • Martha Gill

    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

July 2023

  • Joanna Lumley on boat

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

  • Dave Lee (guest star Ken Jeong) and Nora (Awkwafina) in Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

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

June 2023

  • Joanna Lumley … ‘I was a clown and a fool and an entertainer.’

    ‘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

April 2023

  • Joe Lycett on Late Night Lycett

    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

January 2023

  • Joanna Lumley and her husband, the conductor Stephen Barlow.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    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

December 2022

  • Emma John

    I understand why Joanna Lumley says women must be tougher. The thing is, they already are

    Emma John
    Calling out sexual harassment is not soft or ‘being a victim’, whatever the actress may claim

April 2022

  • My family and other animals … (From left) Jude Morgan-Collie, Mica Ricketts, Alison Steadman, Freya Parks, Jim Howick, Tom Basden, Katherine Parkinson.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Alison Steadman is an interfering grandma in new BBC sitcom

    Katherine Parkinson also navigates life’s everyday mundanities in Here We Go. Plus: Not Going Out heads to the woods in search of drugs. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2022

  • Joanna Lumley in Rome in Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Joanna Lumley is whisked away to Rome by a handsome stranger

  • Steve Jones, Perfect House, Secret Location

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Steve Jones launches a property show with a twist

November 2021

  • Joanna Lumley and Sacha Dench with Dench’s electric paramotor in Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan, ITV.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Joanna Lumley takes to the sky with the human swan

    Lumley takes to the skies with conservationist Sacha Dench. Plus: making a 60s house energy efficient in Save Money. Here’s what to watch this evening

October 2021

  • Joanna Lumley has long campaigned against single-use plastic.

    Joanna Lumley says wartime-style rationing could help solve climate crisis

    Actor proposes system under which people would have limited points to spend on holidays and luxury items

July 2021

  • Actor and activist Joanna Lumley

    Joanna Lumley and Jason Momoa join prominent group backing Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’ listing

    Exclusive: Stars, activists, conservationists and Prince Albert of Monaco unite in support of Unesco’s recommendation to world heritage committee

April 2021

  • Joanna Lumley<br>SPECIAL PRICE. APPROVAL REQUIRED British actress and TV personality Joanna Lumley.

    This much I know
    Joanna Lumley: ‘I love Patsy because we’re such polar opposites…’

    The actor, 74, on Ab Fab, recycling, President Clinton and why you can’t be happy all the time

March 2021

  • Fionn Whitehead as Dorian Gray.

    Lockdown culture
    The Picture of Dorian Gray review – the ugly face of social media

  • ‘I’m anxious about young people’ ... Joanna Lumley as Lady Narborough in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

    Lockdown culture
    Joanna Lumley on The Picture of Dorian Gray: 'Obsession with beauty is so relevant today'

February 2021

  • Joanna Lumley

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Joanna Lumley urges PM to stop detonation of bombs that deafen whales

    Boris Johnson told exploding wartime ordnance to clear way for windfarms can harm marine life

July 2020

  • Zoe Williams

    I spotted Joanna Lumley in the local supermarket – her Bolly trolley made my day

    Zoe Williams
    From Lumley in Sainsbury’s to Kevin Keegan buying socks in Primark, it turns out there are few small collective pleasures greater than celebrity-shopping-spotting, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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