We have become such a throwaway society,' Joanna Lumley says as we drive through Dakar, Senegal. The capital is a rough-and-ready place, choked with cars, mopeds, wooden carts and old buses that smother passers-by in black pillows of smoke. The African sun is shining through the window, and Lumley, here as Marks & Spencer's eco and ethical ambassador, is discussing bras. 'Do you remember push-up bras?' she says. 'I don't even wear push-up bras, but I'd got push-up bras anyway. I'd also got every type of sports bra.' In fact she had an 'immense, tightly packed carrier bag full of bras' hidden in the back of her wardrobe. She also had a cache of clothes in completely the wrong colours. 'Every spring the fashion world tries to introduce you to a love affair with orange and lime green. And everyone goes, "Yay! Orange!" And no one can wear it. So we've all got orange and lime-green things which look hateful on our pale northern complexions. Would work here a treat,' she says, leaning forwards at the sight of a girl crossing the road with a basket of oranges on her head.......
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