How Sir Lenny is tuning up his brain

SIR LENNY Henry, who turns 60 this summer, is fight the ageing process by resuming piano lessons.

‘I’m grade four piano and I’m very proud. I started when I was 40 but stopped and I’m about to start again,’ he tells me at a private screening of Unsung Heroines: The Lost World Of Female Composers at Soho House, which airs on BBC4 tomorrow. ‘ People who stop learning things at a certain age, their brains go downhill. I want to be doing something continually that makes me go: what is this?’