Reader's Digest UK Magazine - May 2024

In this issue

• How to get a green(er) thumb: six easy gardening tips to minimise your effort and maximise your joy

• A conversation with the Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn about human resilience, activism, and his new film, Black Flies

• 100-Word-Story Competition: after months of voting and deliberation, we finally reveal the winners

• The Broadway and West End star Lea Salonga looks back on her illustrious career, including Miss Saigon and voicing Disney princesses

• Love Apptually: we speak to three couples who found love online in later life

Jessica Chastain On Feminism, Fame And Fighting The Good Fight

The Oscar-winning actor on championing women's stories, her rebellious youth and dementia in film

7 mins

Jonathan Yeo I REMEMBER...

Jonathan Yeo is one of the world's leading figurative artists. Entirely self-taught, his portrait subjects have included former Prime Minister Tony Blair, American actor Dennis Hopper and members of the Royal Family

6 mins

This is Your Brain Dance

How dance is improving the lives of people with neurocognitive and movement disorders like Parkinson's, MS and brain injury

7 mins

7 Questions About Pees

The two or more litres of urine you pass in a single day can tell you a lot about your health

2 mins

Don't Be A Bystander

The bystander effect sees people simply standing by rather than helping in case of an emergency

2 mins

New Love Lexicon

Do internet terms help or hinder healthy romantic relationships?

2 mins

HOME AT LAST!

A cat missing for ten years, a dog who disappeared during a wildfire, and more heartwarming true stories of pets who were lost then found

10+ mins

Steve Conte: If I Ruled The World

Steve Conte is a musician known for his memorable guitar work as a member of New York Dolls, as well as his collaborations with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno on the soundtracks to several hit anime series

3 mins

Under The GRANDFLUENCE Prince Stash

From aristocratic, eccentric friend of Sixties rockstars to TikTok sensation

3 mins

My Britain: Winterton-on-Sea

WITH A BEAUTIFUL BEACH on one side and the Norfolk Broads on the other, Winterton-on-Sea is a lovely little village with a big heart.

5 mins

BOTANIC GARDENS OF THE WORLD

Tales of extraordinary plants, botanical history and scientific discovery

4 mins

My Great Escape: Rome, The Eternal City

Our reader Barbara Hull takes a Hollywood-inspired trip to Rome and reveals that some wishes really do come true

2 mins

Culinary Grandes Dames

Paola Westbeek celebrates the women who have influenced her journey in gastronomy-from Elizabeth David and Julia Child to Nigella Lawson

3 mins

THIS BACON FAKERY MUST STOP

I WAS RECENTLY given bacon-flavoured dental floss for my birthday. My first question was: who the hell gives dental floss as a gift? My second question was: has bacon gone too far?

2 mins

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