'We all had to take our tops off': Joanna Lumley on acting, travel – and her hatred of sex scenes

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'I can't bear places where you can't open the windows," says Joanna Lumley, sitting next to me on a sofa. She has just tried and failed to open the windows of the hotel room in which we meet. "And I can't bear the thought of a year without a suitcase." Lumley has become almost as known for her travel programmes as for her acting roles - though nothing, of course, will ever eclipse her gloriously awful Patsy Stone in the 90s comedy Absolutely Fabulous - and recently has been off again. This time she journeys from Indonesia to Jordan, via…

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