Cynthia Erivo

In this week’s wicked edition, Cynthia Erivo delivers a special Letter To My Younger Self. She explains how feeling lost and angry as a teenager helped her soar to unprecedented heights.

Also inside

• New film Lollipop highlights the cruel reality of mothers being released from prison into homelessness and unable to reunite with their children
• How football anthems have become the new folk music
• Director John Maclean on the struggle to get his UK-set samurai film made
• Why the government’s apprenticeship plans could be a gamechanger for young people
• What really happens in Chinese ‘re-education’ camps
• And Bath vendor Justin introduces his two furry friends, Marley and Ginger

Plus much more!

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