"We were taken off the plane and bundled into cars. Hoods were pulled over my parents' heads. Libyans forced my mother, sister and I into one car, my brothers and father another. The convoy drove to a secret prison outside Tripoli, where I was certain we were all going to be executed." The CIA must tell the truth about my rendition at 12 years old, says Khadija al-Saadi on Gawker.
Londonist explains how London rivers got their names.
"On a summer’s afternoon, the scrubland hums and buzzes with the sounds of insects: crickets and grasshoppers hidden within plain sight, bees flitting between one cerise crown of buddleia to another, fish in their hundreds flirting close to the surface of the Irwell – their gleaming backs in the dark expanse below like stars in the night." Hayley Flinn visits Pomona, the lost island of Manchester, for the Guardian.
Episode 37 of A Podcast to the Curious looks at M.R. James's ghost story "Wailing Well" - and casts some light on the genesis of that Glee Club favourite "Woad".
The Downstairs Lounge on the 1962 performance that revived Frankie Howerd's career.
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