Older and Bolder: My A-Z of surviving almost everything

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It’s because there isn’t enough appropriate housing for them so that they can go home from hospital and stay safe. I have lost the friend I always used to go for walks with, the friend I used to go to the theatre with, and of course my husband and my parents.

Lotte began her writing career age 70 and has since written more than 20 children’s books, including the best-selling Lotte’s War. My darling husband bought a half share in a helicopter which I thought was extraordinary given that neither of us were pilots! in this life-affirming book, she looks back from her ninth decade, and shares her most significant memories, from meeting Princess Diana to creating a national outrage with a short film about a driving dog, and reflects with candour and humour on the lessons she's learnt, revealing the hints, hacks and personal philosophies that have been her secrets of surviving almost everything.We used to sing around the piano as a family twice a week and there was a picture on it of my mother’s cousin, a commander in the Australian navy. One of my tasks was to produce the sound of a falling body and unfortunately, the best way to do that is to fall over.

Los Angeles-based skydivers Pat and Alicia both hold multiple skydiving world records and between them have made almost 10,000 jumps. Multi-award-winning broadcaster, founder of Childline and The Silver Line, campaigner, mother, grandmother and joyous trailblazer of our times, Dame Esther Rantzen dazzles in the glory of getting older and ever bolder. But she has flourished and thrived, professionally as a journalist, broadcaster and campaigner, in her personal life as a happy widow and grandmother, and recently embracing the lifestyle changes imposed upon her during Covid. At their age, I was so very fortunate to shadow Esther Rantzen from her green room to live broadcast on BBC That’s Life and Hearts of Gold. It’s quite fun having children later in life – you’ve got your work ambitions out of the way and you don’t wish you could go out to dinner more often – you’ve done all of that.There’s a terrific definition of it, which definitely applied to me after I lost my husband Desmond. He recently joined Leap, a San Francisco-based tech start-up which has just released a conversation app, set to transform the way people socialise online.