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Writer (The Celibate, Easter, Jubilate) talks about his life and work, the falling out of fashion, as he sees it, of novels about Christian faith and his time in the Philippines travelling and researching his latest  book

After the recent announcement that Hull is to be the in 2017, JP Devlin visits the East Yorkshire coast and speaks to some of its inhabitants.   

Joe Glackin was a Catholic  priest who spent 12 years in Liberia working with street children and child soldiers.  He’s now  left the priesthood and  works for an NGO focused on  Sudan. He talks about his time in Liberia, which inspired his first novel A Lone Star Weeps.

Melvyn Evans joined the Coldstream Guards and fought in Aden in the mid 1960’s. A lorry he was travelling in hit a mine and he was invalided out of the army. For 40 years afterwards he was often depressed and unable to talk about his time there. A chance meeting in a pub led to a diagnosis of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and Melvyn had counselling which helped 　him manage a lifelong burden. Melvyn got help through a specialist charity called but there are a number or organisations including the NHS – your GP in the first instance- that help service personnel and others with PTSD and of course if you think you may be suffering with PTSD you need to seek specialist help as soon as you can.

tells us about the peak flow meter and the man who invented it,