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Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief.

Alex had been born in London to Jamaican parents, but grew up in care …

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My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery
My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery

Michael Visontay thought he knew everything about his family’s past, but there was one shadowy character he was aching to know more about: his grandf…

1 year ago

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Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 2
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 2

ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

After training, Sue had got a job within the government's prop…

1 year ago

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Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 1
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 1

Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

Sue was a student when she was first recruited as a spy for the Africa…

1 year ago

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Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey
Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey

Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days.

As a young French-Canadian who had overcome her teenage agor…

1 year ago

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The unmaking of a child soldier
The unmaking of a child soldier

As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

Ishmael Beah was just 13 when war reached his village in Sier…

1 year, 1 month ago

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The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her
The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her

In 1942, several years into the Second World War, the British government sent out a series of bulletins requesting any personal photos the public mig…

1 year, 1 month ago

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How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune
How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune

Reggie Nelson grew up on an East London council estate in a British-Ghanaian family that struggled with alcoholism, domestic violence and money worri…

1 year, 1 month ago

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The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing

In April 2010, Cathy Terkanian received a letter that turned her world upside down. It revealed that her daughter, Alexis, whom she’d had to place fo…

1 year, 1 month ago

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My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love
My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love

In 2020, Ellidy Pullin’s life was turned upside down when her partner, Olympic snowboarder Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin, died in a tragic accident. The coupl…

1 year, 1 month ago

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