No 3: Appreciate you are not Indispensable
Third in my video series of Advice for Life from a Survivor – Appreciate you are not Indispensable
Advice for Life No 2: Work Out a Way to Get Around an Obstacle
My second video in the series Advice for Life from a Survivor: Work out a Way to Get Around an Obstacle looks at why, when you encounter a problem, you should look for a way around it to achieve your goal.
Advice for Life from a Survivor: Remember what’s important
I am often asked if my experiences since surviving the Paddington train crash has changed my views on life and what, if any, life lessons I have learnt. Of course the answer is ‘yes’ to both so I’ve decided to share my thoughts and advice with you in a series of short videos. This first […]
5 Life Lessons from a Survivor
I have had to learn many lessons over the years but those from my recovery, to me, were some of the most important. Top of these have been the intangible things. Things that I had never considered deeply before but my circumstances gave me lots of time to be introspective and ask ‘how can my […]
Simon Weston OBE reflects on ‘From Behind the Mask’
Pam’s book, From Behind the Mask, for me is not so much about the person Pam was before, even though that is important to understand. This is about the person Pam has become. On the face of it (no pun intended), Pam and I have little in common. What we obviously share is that we […]
Sir Trevor McDonald reviews ‘From Behind the Mask’
One of the things I’ve always thought of as a journalist is how quickly we move from one subject to another in our work, from one major story to another yesterday’s incidents, yesterday’s disasters are soon relegated to the file of things past, always recalled when the occasion demands, but in the main gone from […]
Sir Roger Moore’s review of From Behind the Mask (yes 007!)
I, like many others, vividly remember the news reports and pictures from the site of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash and the later front page images of Pam Warren wearing her mask. Who could forget? But in between and since those headlines there is another story which, until I picked up this book, I knew […]