Mary Ann Sieghart led a succession of programmes showing just why men need to wise up, talk less and listen a lot moreSpeak Up (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsWoman’s Hour (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsThe Spark (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsThis Union: The Ghost Kingdoms of En…
How Joshua Coombes became hairdresser to the homeless and example to us all
The 34-year-old has given free haircuts on the street since 2015, and has put the stories of some of those he has helped in a bookOne evening in spring 2015, Joshua Coombes did something that changed his life for ever. He was walking to a friend’s hous…
The big picture: vodka and sunshine in southern Siberia, 1993
Bertien van Manen snaps five young Russians enjoying a brief escape from the seismic shift in their country’s fortunesIn the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen travelled through some of th…
The RNLI deserves better than Nigel Farage’s contempt | Tim Adams
The rescue service has a long and glorious history of saving the lives of people, wherever they come fromA couple of weeks ago, I was at Lizard Point in Cornwall. The old lifeboat station below Britain’s most southerly cliffs has long since been replac…