“she wasn’t like other people’s mums ”

WHEN doing research for her latest novel, actor-turned-writer Eliza Morton went further than most – 2,500 feet further, to be exact! When she was looking into history of World War II and the Women’s A

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9.00pm Channel 4

Talking Pictures TV has a deserved reputation for unearthing lesser-known British films, and for breathing new life into British television drama and comedy series of the 1950s to 1970s. One of the se

The “only one in the world” is what the Los Angeles Times said about Bessie Coleman a century ago. It launched me on a quest to trace the breathtaking moxie of an adventurous, brave, black woman who’d