The Fundraiser
With several successful ventures behind him, Bob Gould doesn’t need to endure the blood, sweat and tears of building up a new business, but he can’t think of anything he’d rather do.
The Serial Entrepreneur
With several successful ventures behind him, Bob Gould doesn’t need to endure the blood, sweat and tears of building up a new business, but he can’t think of anything he’d rather do.
The Campaigner
After a broadcasting career spanning several decades, Joan Bakewell was made a working peer and the Voice of Older People in the House of Lords.
Restless Creative
Arthur Taussig has a master’s degree in biochemistry and a doctorate in biophysics from UCLA. In the early 1960s, he went on to teach film and photography at Orange Coast College, a community college in California. When he retired in 2001, at the age of 60, his life’s work really began.
Digital Diva
After a career in marketing in the beauty industry, Angela Laws came out of retirement to become marketing and social-media manager for TrustedHousesitters, a global digital business that matches house and pet-sitters. With no digital marketing skills, she had to learn how to create online content and manage digital communities.
An Artist's Impression
Fresh from high school, Floyd Norman began his career as an in-betweener at Walt Disney studios. The first African-American artist to work at Disney, he has successfully spanned the worlds of hand-drawn and computer animation. Floyd Norman was the subject of the 2016 documentary, “An Animated Life.”
The Bard's Bluestocking
Retired journalist and author of six books, Joy has completed five degrees and is putting the finishing touches to her PHD on Elizabethan literature at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Not content with scholarship alone, she has directed several plays for the Institute’s theatre group.