About this episode

Lucy Meggeson interviews actor Janis Dardaris about her career and the Glorious Broads movement.

Send us Fan Mail My guest this week is the fabulous Janis Dardaris. Single and childfree, Janis is an actor with over 40 years experience working on stage, in film and in television. She has appeared in The Sixth Sense, The Chosen, Incendies and Orpheus Descending, to name but a few. Janis is also one of the Glorious Broads, a movement of women age 50 and over who are smashing stereotypes of what it actually means to be a woman of ‘a certain age’. In our conversation, Janis and I talk about b...

People in this episode

Host: Lucy Meggeson

Guest: Janis Dardaris

Topics covered

• acting
• age stereotypes
• single life
• childfree
• women empowerment

Keywords

• Janis Dardaris
• acting career
• Glorious Broads
• women over 50
• single and childfree

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Glorious Broads

Books & works: The Sixth Sense, The Chosen, Incendies, Orpheus Descending

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