Author: |Posted: 5:07 pm on 17/11/09
Category: Snowblog
A rare thing happened yesterday. My “day job” collided with my volunteer project. Actually, in 20 years on Channel 4 News I don’t think it’s ever happened before.
But after the outing of Belle de Jour – the PhD-wielding academic with an intriguing money-generating enterprise on the side – I felt we should put the other side of the coin. We should talk to some of those who have no choice in the matter and who work at the exploited, grubby end of prostitution.
Author: |Posted: 10:07 am on 29/05/09
Category: Snowblog
The item on the rarest Dinky toy in the world on last night’s Channel 4 News gave me a pang of nostalgia as I glimpsed my beloved Dinky car transporter (not the actual one, but the model) on the right of screen in Nick Glass’s report.
When I was seven years old my mum and dad put me in for a choral scholarship to become a chorister at Winchester Cathedral. read more
Author: |Posted: 4:19 pm on 06/04/09
Category: Snowblog
I take a lunch break at the New Horizon Youth Centre – it’s a day centre for homeless teenagers in King’s Cross where I work as chair of the management council. Conveniently, it is only 10 minutes from where I work.
We have two new workers who I have come to meet on the first day of their induction. I’ve been involved here one way or another ever since I worked here as director 35 years ago.
