By Alice Maxwell Every two weeks or so I take a walk to the post box in Murray Crescent and post a letter to America. I try to include a funny anecdote, a silly poem (Spike Milligan perhaps), or a photo of my garden along with a bit of British history. I want to give …

LifeLines – Writing to Prisoners on Death Row By Alice Maxwell In the late 1980s the BBC screened a documentary called “Fourteen Days in May” which followed the last fourteen days of the life of Edward Earl Johnson before he was executed in a Mississippi prison. Amongst the horrified audience was one Jan Ariens, who …