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A new start after 60: 'I almost died of cancer. Then I became an actor " at 63!' by Paula Cocozza

Julian Bird was a psychiatrist when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer " and began daydreaming about being an actor. Seventeen years later, he is playing the lead at a London theatre When Julian Bird was 60, he was diagnosed with cancer of the bladder. He had a series of operations, "all very unpleasant", and learned that he "was likely to die pretty soon". After 34 years as a psychiatrist, in that intense state of…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM on January 10, 2022

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