Helen Mirren says being naked on the screen gets easier with age, and next year she’s about to start work in a brothel. The Times finds the perennial pin-up bent on mischief

A devoted mother of six, with a dark and driven side. But Angelina Jolie is also willing to put her life on the line.

Zeynep Fadillioglu is one member of a team of interior designers and architects overseeing the construction of the Sakirin Mosque. It is Fadillioglu's first mosque. "I think I don't know of any other person — a woman — who has designed a mosque before," she says.

Cyndi Lauper talks about her new album, Bring Ya to the Brink.

Emma Thompson talks to Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her new film Brideshead Revisited.

I heard this interview on NPR last weekend and it was fascinating. Doris Lessing's new book, Alfred and Emily, takes a look at the lives of her parents and mixes memories and historical fiction. It sounds intriguing and the NPR interview is truly worth a listen.

Cherie Blair's memoir, Speaking for Myself, is published in the US in October. Vanity Fair takes a look at the controversial Prime Minister's wife.