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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 …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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