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With Nothing Underneath's founder Pip Durell: ‘The Meghan Markle effect? That was crazy’Once a fashion assistant at Tatler making a measly ‘£12,000 a year’, Pip Durell is now the founder and CEO of With Nothing Underneath. Lotte Brundle meets her.
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Sir Tristram Hunt: 'Here is the brilliance, eccentricity, liberty and skill of the English’To celebrate the release of our recent 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is the director of the V&A Sir Tristram Hunt.
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John Simpson: ‘I’d narrowly escaped execution as a British army spy in republican West Belfast'To celebrate the release of our recent 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor.
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Floella, Baroness Benjamin: ‘66 years ago, this new world felt alien and harsh, but I grew to love the English's eccentricities and peculiarities'To celebrate the release of this week's 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is the Trinidadian-British actress and Liberal Democrat peer, Floella Benjamin.
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Sally Phillips: ‘I accidentally lived in a brothel’Lotte Brundle talks to the actor about returning to the stage after 20 years, her frustration at never getting to kiss Colin Firth in the Bridget Jones films and wanting to look like ET.
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Sir John Major: ‘For all its frustrations, England is where I wish to live. I feel blessed to be British'To celebrate the release of this week's 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is former prime minister The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH.
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Tom Parker Bowles: ‘The English art of the witty put down is unmatched’To celebrate this week's 'English Issue', six individuals reflect on what being English means to them. First up: Country Life's very own Tom Parker Bowles.
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Hugo Vickers: 'Wallis Simpson enjoyed being the King’s friend, but in no way did she want to become his wife, or to cause a major constitutional crisis'Why everything we've been told about ‘the woman who stole the King’ is wrong, by toyal biographer Hugo Vickers.
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Few historical figures have sat at such a rich juncture between power, empire and progress than this East London princessWill Hosie celebrates the legacy of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh who campaigned strongly for women's independence.
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Dame Prue Leith: ‘I won't say we were rolling drunk, but we were definitely tight’The former ‘Bake Off’ star tells Lotte Brundle about growing old, her burgeoning friendship with Blake Lively and the advice Mary Berry gave her about Paul Hollywood.
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'She said it was the most haunted place she had known and asked if we’d seen all the ghosts': Alexander Armstrong on his first house in the countryThe actor and comedian Alexander Armstrong fondly remembers his first house in the country, in an Oxfordshire village.
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Cariad Lloyd: ‘What I would like people to get from me is a Moomin vibe’The writer, actor and comedian talks about discussing grief on the toilet, raunchily re-writing Jane Austen and the importance of championing women’s writing with Lotte Brundle.
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Have you considered a dog? A snob's guide to heartbreakSophia Money-Coutts on how to make it through the early days of a break up.
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'I hadn't seen anyone who looked like me moving outdoors': Bethany Handley on nature, access, and going up mountains in a pink wheelchairThe author, poet and campaigner Bethany Handley joins the Country Life Podcast.
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'The builders took the roof off and all the walls fell down': Mary King on her first house in the countryMary King, the six-time Olympian and one of the most decorated riders in the history of eventing, on her first country home.
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Marcus Wareing: ‘I’ve sacrificed more than any other chef’The MasterChef host and celebrity chef talks to Lotte Brundle.
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Hamish Mackie reveals his dream time-travel destination and the artist he'd most like to meetWhere would you go if you could wind back the clock?
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'Audiobooks are closer to how stories used to work before we pretended silence was superior': These are a few of Rankin's favourite thingsAmie Elizabeth White talks to Rankin about air fryers, dogs and time. Illustrations by Bryony Fripp.
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Is the cure for modern life as simple as going for a walk?Annabel Streets, author of 'The Walking Cure', joins the Country Life Podcast.
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Clodagh McKenna on living next door to the real Downton Abbey, meeting her husband at Fortnum & Mason’s and forest bathingLotte Brundle meets the celebrity chef and TV personality.
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The Titanic cruise line baron who revitalised the fortunes of an entire village sold through the pages of Country LifeMelanie Bryan tells the story of James Ismay whose countryside labour of love featured in Country Life multiple times.
