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“Tennis parents have taken some bad raps over the way they’ve handled their talented offspring,” says Richard Evans, who’s been writing about tennis since the days


of Rod Laver in the 1960s. “You get an idea of the do’s and don’ts by talking to Toni Nadal and Richard Williams.”


“When I arrived in Britain 40 years ago I fell in love with it and promised myself I’d never leave,” says London- based journalist Monica Porter. “I kept that promise,


but it saddens me that we seem to have lost the very Britishness that drew me here in the first place.”


Brian Cathcart is a freelance writer and professor of journalism at Kingston University in London. He has been reporting on the deaths at Deepcut army


training barracks since 2003—and actually figured as a character in the successful play Deep Cut by Philip Ralph.


“A fan told me I was like a cat who’s used up six of his nine lives,” says serial adventurer Benedict Allen. “It made me wonder how many times I really had died—I think it’s


more like nine times, give or take the odd mishap. But in the end, it’s all about how many times we’ve lived.”


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