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Publications

New Statesman

Health

Nobody to Call

On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.

Devon Heinen New Statesman Jan 2020 25min Permalink

Movies & TV

The Movie That Doesn’t Exist and the Redditors Who Think It Does

You never watched Shazaam.

Amelia Tait New Statesman Dec 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

Where the Bodies Are Buried

How forensic anthropologist Sue Black does her job.

Helen Lewis New Statesman Jan 2016 30min Permalink

Science

The Alphabet of Months

Life with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

Christian Donlan New Statesman Jun 2015 15min Permalink

World

Miracle of the Tsunami

Ten years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, an Indonesian family is reunited.

Xan Rice New Statesman Dec 2014 30min Permalink

World

From Africa to Kent: Following in the Footsteps of Migrants

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

Daniel Trilling New Statesman Dec 2014 20min Permalink

World Travel

The Long Ride to Riyadh

Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.

Dave Eggers New Statesman May 2014 45min Permalink

Science

Life and Death at His Fingertips

Watching a brain surgeon at work.

Erica Wagner New Statesman Mar 2014 1h Permalink

Business

The Tax Haven in the Heart of Britain

The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”

Nicholas Shaxson New Statesman Feb 2011 10min Permalink

Politics World

The Vagabond King

When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside.

Simon Akam New Statesman Feb 2012 20min Permalink