Kim Cattrall; Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales; Anti-Gang Education

Kim Cattrall is best known for playing the infamous Samantha Jones in the award winning American TV series Sex and the City. Kim is now staring in the black comedy Sensitive Skin. Her character, Davina Jackson, is a former model and actress dealing with a midlife crisis. After recently portraying a fading Hollywood legend on stage in Tennessee William’s Sweet Bird of Youth, Kim talks to Jane about why she is keen to tackle the subject of ageing in her work, playing against herself as the ‘Other’ Davina, and the legacy of Sex and the City.

The Green Party’s first election poster of this year asked “what are you afraid of boys?” protesting the Green Party’s initial exclusion from the TV leader debates, debates that its leader Natalie Bennett will now be joining. She has said that her party is enjoying a “Green surge” and they now claim more members than the Lib Dems and UKIP. Jane talks to Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Amongst the recommendations in a recent Home Affairs Committee report on Gangs and Youth Crime, was support for expanding anti-gang education to primary schools to include seven year olds. Jane is joined by Anne Longfield, the new Children’s Commissioner, and ex-offender and gang member, Junior Smart, founder of SOS Project and SOS+, who works with young offenders and already goes into primary schools to work with children at risk of becoming involved with gangs.