Maureen Lipman

My Dad was a tailor and he would give my mother housekeeping money each week and call it her 'wages.'

My Dad was a tailor and he would give my mother housekeeping money each week and call it her 'wages.'

It drives me batty that there isn't more equality in my business.

I adored my father because he was dry and witty and funny. He would stand in the door of his shop greeting everybody and chatting to them as they went past.