The organiser of a domestic abuse awareness course for men claims it has been successful in changing their behaviour towards their partners.
Charitable tendency
Johnny Marr talks exclusively to Kelly Mattison about the release of his single in aid of homeless charity Centrepoint.
Children need more protection from porn
The Bailey report on the sexualisation of children published last week does not go far enough to protect young people from the easy availability of pornography, warns Tanith Carey, a parenting author and journalist.
In a solicitor’s office in Wigan, Alison Hull is having a huge chunk of her hair cut out from her scalp. A pathologist is carrying out this procedure with what Hull describes as a large pair of wallpaper scissors. After he has finished Hull cries and the solicitor witnessing the act has tears in her eyes. “I had long blonde hair down my back,” Hull says. “I’ve had to have it cut short now because of the bald patch it left.”
Calum Best: what it’s like to grow up with an alcoholic parent
“Doing this documentary hasn’t really helped me put closure on anything,” said Calum Best with admirable honesty. “What it has helped me with is figuring out that if I need to cope with things and work out why I feel certain things then I need to talk to somebody about it.”
‘There was nothing to prepare us for it’
Former Coronation Street actor Bruce Jones was among the celebrities who slept rough for ten nights in a BBC documentary
Out of steps
Kevin Edward Turner nearly lost his family and a promising career in dance when he suffered a severe mental breakdown and was sectioned. Instead he’s used his family’s experiences of it to create a new show.
Darren has been in prison for five years. Until 12 months ago he couldn’t read. “I just blagged my way through this reading thing.”
The control freakery of domestic abuse
The Freedom Programme is allowing me to understand how and why my partner abused me, and it is setting me free, says Kelly Mattison.
In the shadow of terrorism
“People in the west have absolutely no idea what terrorism is. We have a 9/11 or 7/7 if not every day then every second day in Pakistan,” says Tahir Malik, a retired army major whose wife was killed in a suicide bomb attack.
‘If they close this place down I will go back to prison’
So scared of life on the outside was Andrew Monahan that he would drive up to police officers and tell them he had no driving license in order to be sent back behind bars.
‘I was in a supportive, loving and disciplined environment’
Singer-songwriter Ashley John-Baptiste’s moving documentary about being fostered reveals how it helped him build strong relationships and develop a positive outlook.
‘I’d make sure children in poverty were getting enough money’
Kayleigh was one of five young people in the recent documentary Poor Kids whose moving and eloquent accounts moved child poverty up the political agenda.
Acts of random kindness
Acts of random kindness make the world a slightly better place. Now one entrepreneur is helping people look good while they perform them.
Body of evidence
Body dysmorphic disorder sufferers become worry so obsessively about their appearance that some try to kill themselves. And it affects men as well as women.
Mental Health Media awards for three men brave enough to talk in powerful documentary about the sexual abuse that blighted their lives.