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her contemporaries who complain that work dries up when they get older, actress Geraldine James has been too busy filming to do what she loves best — sing. ‘i am very disappointed as i love singing, but just haven’t been able to make the Battersea Choral Society rehearsals for elijah, which they are singing in March,’ the 68-year-old tells me after filming Downton Abbey the movie and a new comedy series for BBC3, called Back To life. i caught up with the Jewel in The Crown star packing for the snowy wilds of Canada, where she is due to film a third series of the award-winning netflix drama Anne With An e, based on Anne Of Green Gables.