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Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Which British education system struggles with 50% illiteracy? Where do teetotal Muslims attend AA meetings? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service, a c...

When Matt McAllester's mother died unexpectedly of a heart attack, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent was pole-axed by grief. In the wake of her passing, he found himself looking through her collection of much-loved cookbooks, and in 'Bittersweet' he describes the healing power of c...

It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was the only survivor: David Bain. Since then, the countr...

When Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper asking for all those interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to contact a P.O. box, Detective Stallworth does his job and responds with interest,...

Historian and broadcaster Tessa Dunlop tells the story of the women of Bletchley Park, through exclusive and unprecedented access to the women themselves.

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding the Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extrao...

In June 2004, Frank Gardner & his cameraman were in a suburb of Riyadh, fact finding for a piece on Al Qaeda, when they were attacked by Islamic terrorists. This work tells the story of the agonising journey Frank has taken from being left for dead.

Based on cutting-edge research, Sykes talks about a DNA research programme, which tested over 10,000 DNA samples from across the UK with the aim of answering questions such as: What is the DNA make-up of the UK? Did the Vikings rape and pillage their way throughout Britain? What of the Normans, t...

This is the story of the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty. It is a fiery history of queens, the perils of power and of how the Wars of the Roses were ended - not by knights in battle, but the sinewy political skills of women.

Tom Reynolds is an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a blog of his daily working life since 2003 & his writing is, by turns, moving, cynical, funny, heart-rending & compassionate.