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Sunday Times Magazine March 8th 2009
DID YOU KNOW? – Three intriguing snippets: the real-life inspiration behind Gone with the Wind’s Scarlett O’Hara; the forgotten artist who taught Rolf Harris to paint: and did Charles Manson nearly join the Monkees?
RELATIVE VALUES – Charles Darwin’s great-great-granddaughter Ruth Padel, poet, and her daughter, Gwen, Cambridge student
OPEN MINDS – One-night stands, chain- smoking at funerals, and painting friends on their deathbeds: the artist Maggi Hambling reveals why she lives by her own rules
ONE YEAR ON – He lost an arm and a leg when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan, but the fighting spirit of the 21-year-old marine Ben McBean made him Prince Harry’s hero. Now, after months of gruelling rehabilitation, he talks about a year of pain-but no regrets
HEIGHTS OF PASSAGE – Described as “more like a suicide than a sport”, base jumping is the ultimate fix for adrenaline junkies. And two men have just pulled off one of its biggest coups
A LESSON HE’LL NEVER FORGET – At a New Jersey high school, a gym teacher took sex education a little too far, seducing several students. Then one of her conquests cracked up-and set off a disturbing chain of events
A LIFE IN THE DAY – Ellie Simmonds MBE, the 14-year-old paralympic swimmer who won two gold medals and met the Queen
COVER – A 16-page special featuring the greatest and most outrageous rock’n’roll images of all time, including the Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Tina Turner. Plus: a chance to win one of 25 limited- edition fine-art prints of Elton John, signed by the acclaimed photographer Terry O’Neill
THE TOXIC SEA – Our oceans are the latest casualty of environmental damage as acidified water kills off marine creatures in droves. Can anything be done to breathe life back into these watery graves?
SHORT STORY – A FRIENDSHIP – In Alexei Sayle’s surreal tale of revenge. two old men who really should know better take things to unbelievable extremes
64 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age
