Playing with knives, navigating the ‘Dad Race’ at Sports Day, and getting a ‘backstreet assessment’ for dyslexia are on the conversational menu as comedians Tom Price and Stuart Goldsmith reunite with fellow father Olly Mann to discuss the pleasures and p

Paul Watson realised he would never play football for England - so attempted,instead, to be recruited by the worst international team in the world. His quest lead him to Pohnpei, Micronesia;and, although he never realised his dream of becoming an intern

Peter McCormack, Bedfords budget Ryan Reynolds, is on a mission to take his local team all the way to the Premier League When he bought Bedford FC in 2021, they were in the tenth tier, and unknown outside the town.After rebranding them as Real B

In the wake of the Brexit referendum in 2017, Wes Streeting had only been an MP for two years... and had won two elections in as many years. In this month's Playback, we take you back to that time - away from the election spin of 2024 - to understand the

Sex scenes are a feature of modern filmmaking, yet require meticulous planning and sensitive handling in a post-#MeToo world.Enter intimacy coordinator Lucy Fennell - whose credits include True Detective, All Of Us Strangers, and Queen Charlotte: A Brid

Whats it like when the person youre closest to in the world isn't who you think they are?Elizabeth* spent a year dating a man who provided only sketchy details about his life, but ingratiated himself into her friendship circle, her family and her home.

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Patricia never knew her birth parents. And she didnt care to: adopted by a white family in Toronto, she felt awkward and embarrassed when people perceived her as Korean.But, in her twenties, at the insistence of family and friends, she began a journey o

Smuggling marijuana from Thailand to Alaska; trading illicit fuel in Nigeria; evading the law in France - Robert Stone did it all.From one small fishing boat in the Bahamas he built up a veritable fleet of vessels - including a 6000-tonne oil tanker - de

Stu Otten was raised on a tough Liverpool estate, where drug-taking was rife, and established crime families enacted violent retribution.Aged 17, he became a bar-room bouncer - and soon found himself dealing drugs, protecting human traffickers, and defe