Martin Sixsmith

Foreword Philomena is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman. Philomena Lee was a naive teenager, whose only sin was to fall pregnant out of wedlock. 'Put away' in a convent by an Irish society dominated by the Roman Catholic Church, she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy For three...

A FUNERAL IN LONDON The afternoon was tinged with the unreal. Riding the Underground to London's Highgate Cemetery, I caught myself reliving Russian funerals from my past. Andrei Sakharov's emotional leave-taking in 1989, when weeping thousands lined the streets of Moscow; the murdered Russian...