Old wave pensioner
A 100-year-old dementia sufferer brims with delight as she goes for a swim – for the first time in 35 YEARS. Great-grandmother Sadie Knight thought she would never go for a dip again after givin ...
LIFESTYLE
A remarkable man’s diaries are turned into an enlightening, but rather less remarkable, documentary
Joyce Glasser reviews Notes on Blindness (July 1, 2016) The late theologian John Hall suffered from degenerative eye failure all his life and went completely blind in 1983 at the age of 45. He had ma ...
“To mix classical and modern is my wish,” says Russian ballerina Natalia Osipova
Robert Tanitch reviews Natalia Osipova at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 Natalia Osipova, a classical ballerina and international star, 29-years-old, is at the top of her profession. It is natural she wou ...
Five ways water changes everything
When WaterAid helps a community dig a well or install a tapstand, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s the start of something life-changing. Start with access to safe, clean water and it’ ...