Saga Magazine

Saga Magazine is packed full of informative financial features and news from our experts Paul Lewis and Annie Shaw, health tips, inspiring real-life stories, travel, gardening and food. Enjoy in-depth celebrity interviews, our columnists’ wry take on life and our brain-teasing crosswords. Plus coverage of not-to-be-missed events, the arts, music, film, TV, books and much, much more...

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This month's CONTRIBUTORS

Green spaces • Fill your home with fabulous eco-friendly finds that won't cost the earth

Jeremy Paxman • Our columnist considers how all experiences, good and bad, shape our lives – including his unsuccessful attempt to become a spy

Jenni Murray • Filled with love and pride for Concorde, our columnist hopes one day everyone will get to admire this world-beating aircraft

IN MY EXPERIENCE… • The microbiome expert, 65, talks about the health scare that made him overhaul his lifestyle and the secret to his 35-year marriage

This month we talk… pets • Each month our insight team conducts an in-depth poll of Saga customers to find out what you're thinking. This month: do you talk to your animals?

Rock ‘n’ Doll • Country music icon Dolly Parton, 77, talks surgery, crazy rumours and her new rock album – and reveals why her life would have taken a different course if she'd had children

E-whizz! • Electric bikes are the perfect way to get us out of our cars – and keep us fitter, too. Here's everything you need to know to join our European neighbours in the two-wheeled green revolution. This is cycling… but not as you knew it!

‘Turning 80 seems bizarre. I don't feel like an old woman’ • As she takes on the controversial subject of assisted dying for her latest role, actor Sue Johnston talks about getting older, life as a single mum and the joy of grandchildren

Mission possible? • Almost a century since airships were last seen as the future of air travel, a new generation of helium-filled giants could be on the horizon

To the rescue • When Lady Bathurst found out that service dogs and horses lose all funding for veterinary needs once they retire, she set up a charity to take care of them

Meet the man who wants to live forever • Can you turn back time? Multimillionaire Bryan Johnson thinks you can – and believes his gruelling daily routine will reverse the ageing process and lengthen his lifespan to a number never reached before

The queen of green • She won The Great British Bake Off nine years ago, but now it's cleaning not cakes that gets Nancy Birtwhistle up in the morning. At 69 she's become a green guru – with almost half a million fans hanging on her every word

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Why I'm lukewarm on heat pumps (so far) • They're undeniably clever, efficient and green – but is it the right moment to swap your trusty boiler for a heat pump? Our tech columnist investigates

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Spice it up

Tried & tasted • Filled pasta tubes with a béchamel sauce make great comfort food – but which of these brings the most joy?

Naturally better • Whether easing digestion or calming chesty coughs, relieving hangovers or boosting your mood and memory, your garden is the source of many natural remedies. So kick-start your year with a health boost from everyday plants.

6 HERBS FOR WINTER TEAS • Jekka McVicar turns to herbal teas daily as a calming ritual and a targeted remedy. Use just-boiled water over leaves to make your tea, says Jekka, never boiling, as this...