Stories
Nick Bollinger
“Dad talked to me from the moment I opened my eyes, and I can remember conversations all through those sixteen years with him.”
Nick Bollinger’s dad was known to many as a wise and kind man before he died when Nick was sixteen. The writer and broadcaster reckons he’d still be doing what he does had his father lived, but he would have found his way much sooner.
David Lawrence
“The worst thing in my life was also responsible for some of the best things in my life.”
David Lawrence found so much comfort in Shakespeare’s Hamlet after his father died when he was fifteen that he made theatre his life, creating a lasting connection to his theatre-loving dad.