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Jeffrey Archer, 80
Jeffrey is a former politician, life peer and best-selling novelist. Bolder met him at his London penthouse. “I didn’t start writing until I was about 38 years old. I had to leave the House of Commons facing bankruptcy and it’s not easy to get a job after something like that. So I sat down and […]
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Ben Jakober, 90
Ben is the co-founder of the Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, a gallery and sculpture park in northern Mallorca. He is also an artist and sculptor. “I was born in Vienna in 1930, but after a few years things got a bit difficult, because we were Jews. I remember my father taking me to the […]
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Elaine Kingett, 70
Elaine runs weekly writing and mindfulness meditation workshops in North London and writing, walking and meditation retreats in Andalucia. She is also a journalist “My parents used to hit me and told me I was mad from a young age. That’s why I started writing in a notebook, because it was a way of saying how […]
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Cleo Sylvestre, 74
Cleo is an actress in film, stage and television. Most recently, she starred in Alan Bennett’s play Allelujah! at the Bridge Theatre. She also performs the Blues as Honey B Mama. “For as long as I can remember, I wanted to act. One of my godfathers was Constant Lambert, a conductor at Sadler’s Wells and […]
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Esther Rantzen, 79
Esther is a television presenter and journalist. She also launched Childline and more recently The Silver Line, a telephone support service for older people in the UK. She is a trustee of the NSPCC, a patron for 19 charities and has a damehood for services to children and older people. “I lived with my grandmother […]
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Zandra Rhodes, 79
Zandra is a British fashion designer whose brand turns 50 this year. She is also the founder of London’s Fashion Textile Museum. “My mother taught dressmaking in an art college and I used to love wearing her pretty little dresses on a Sunday to visit my granny. The local kids would laugh at me and […]
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Dominique Afacan, 39, Helen Cathcart, 38
A blog? A website? A movement? When we started Bolder back in 2015, we weren’t entirely sure how to label it. We just knew we had to do something to change the conversations we kept hearing about ageing. The negativity was rubbing off on us. We were both in our mid-thirties, and yet we were […]
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Alberto Portugheis, 78
Alberto is an award-winning pianist, born in Argentina to parents of Russian and Romanian descent. His career takes him all over the world, but he lives in London, where he also works as a piano teacher. “I discovered music thanks to our neighbours in Argentina. I would be on the street playing with my friends […]
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