Second in a series of interviews with people working the night shift, Cordelia Fellowes speaks to Ben, who was a radio presenter for 10 years. He gained weight, developed IBS and has been a light sleeper ever since…
journalism
Work Life
“I was constipated, on anti-depressants and had several colonoscopies. My skin was almost grey, I had a perpetual low mood and my hair would often fall out.” Juliette Rainer tells Cordelia Fellowes the dark truth about how damaging night shifts can be…
Family
“The first conversation went: ‘oh my god, I’m fucking pregnant’. We’d been married two years.” Guardian columnist Tim Dowling on an unplanned pregnancy and the mind-numbing tedium of young children…
Family
Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead fell in love with a crack-smoking, drug-dealing ex-con. He quit the criminal underworld for her, got a degree and they had two sons. But devastatingly, while on holiday in Jamaica, Tony drowned. Today, Decca tells us about this unlikely union…