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Letter To My Younger Self

Letter To My Younger Self

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Shappi Khorsandi: ‘I’d tell my 16-year-old self, you have ADHD. That’s why you failed your GCSEs’

Comedian turned author Shappi Khorsandi discusses racism, meeting her hero Billy Connolly and overcoming the odds in her Letter To My Younger Self.

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Books

Dolly Parton, Dave Grohl and Billie Piper feature in Letter To My Younger Self paperback

The updated paperback edition of The Big Issue’s celebrated Letter To My Younger Self book is out now.

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Music

Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing worse than giving in to your own cynicism’

Billy Bragg no longer thinks music can change the world. But he wouldn’t tell his younger self not to try.

Music

Roger Taylor on Elvis, Freddie Mercury’s belief in Queen and his weekend with Bowie

Music

Roger Taylor: ‘I just wish I’d got to say goodbye to Freddie’

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News

Big Issue sellers share words of advice for their younger selves

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News

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton on her journey from homelessness to fire chief – via The Big Issue

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Music

Terry Hall: ‘The Specials have always been about protest’

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Life

Andy Murray on childhood, success and the advice his daughter gave him

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Actor Samuel West: ‘I was a rebellious 33-year-old’

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Paul McGann: ‘Doctor Who couldn’t have worked out better’

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News

‘I had to flee Afghanistan when I was just 12’

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Music

Jackson Browne: ‘The best is always yet to come’

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