Behind these Doors: As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week

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The men I have worked with and the staff I’ve worked alongside over the last ten years in prison have taught me strength, compassion, courage, and fundamentally, the need to talk, the need to share and the need to tell these stories. These are the stories of lives lived, lost and taken, behind walls so high we can pretend they hide another world entirely. But at what cost?

I'm A Celeb's Grace Dent admits her heart is broken as she thanks tearful campmates for 'holding her up' in emotional goodbye letter after leaving show A true, compassionate and honest account of what it is to work in our prisons.’ Dr Gwen Adshead, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Devil You Know Amongst various activities, she is a Trustee of Allegra’s Ambition, a small family run grant giving trust supporting young, disadvantaged people through sport and nature.

At the same time entire prison wings, he added, were being closed because there were too few officers to “run a regime safely.” In short, the service had moved from dysfunctional to failing.

Tommy Fury fails to mention fiancée Molly-Mae Hague as he pays tribute to their daughter Bambi on return to the UK after partying in Abu Dhabi Women shouldn't be police officers," a colleague told Alex South mid-shift. South's gender is a central feature of her new book Behind These Doors, which tells of her 10 years working as a prison officer in HM Prison Service. But despite her size making her diminutive in comparison to many of the extremely dangerous men she spent her time looking after, she also discovered her being a woman afforded her unique chances to connect with inmates and intervene in situations that could easily escalate, if left to the devices of hyper-masculine etiquette, and rigid notions of honour and respect. Love Island's Olivia Bowen displays her curves in a patterned skin-tight maxi dress as she attends the star-studded Beauty Awards

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean show off their incredible skating skills as Winter Olympics winners rehearse aheadof Dancing On Ice Kim Kardashian's fans go wild over what she does with her tongue in pouty selfies to plug SKIMS: 'A bit X-rated Kimmy!' Instead, many of them go quietly crazy with the things they have to do. Now, the older, experienced men (perhaps guessing what is to come) are leaving and, as she warns: 'A storm is coming'. The opening and closing recordings made in a UK prison are used with kind permission of the Prison Radio Association. Find out more here : https://prison.radio