Hazel on April 28th, 2011

I couldn’t have dreamed up a better precursor for my forthcoming book Saving Sebastian, due out on 1 July. But honestly, I hadn’t so much as whispered in the ear of the BBC. The documentary, So What If My Baby Is Born Like Me?, went out at 9pm on 19 April on BBC Three, but [...]

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Hazel on April 22nd, 2010

I’ve just had a complete stranger contact me to check: Do I exist? Am I really me? Did I actually win a prize in a writing competition as an advert claimed? Now, I’ve lost count of the number of people who’ve told me they’ve seen this photo (top right) in the said advert – for [...]

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Hazel on February 25th, 2010

Thanks to my daughter’s vigilance, I’ve just found an amazing website, tailor made for people like me who don’t get round to noting programmes about ethical issues until it’s too late, or who forget the ones they’ve seen. If you share my obsession about ethics you’ll probably know about it already. But just in case [...]

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