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Stanley J. Browne. Actor: Rough Cut. Born on December 15th 1970 at The Mothers' Hospital, Hackney, East London, Stanley is the second child of four and grew up in the care system as a young boy from the age of five.
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Jun 24, 2022 · 24th June 2022. Written by: Joel Campbell. ‘Little Big Man’, by Stanley J. Browne will have you gripped. After a turbulent upbringing, Browne trained at the Anna Scher Theatre in North...
Jun 21, 2022 · Actor Stanley J Browne grew up in London in a Jamaican family and recalls his Caribbean culture being a huge part of his childhood in the 1970s. He was born and brought up in Hackney, East London and says his childhood was filled with love and happiness, until he was put into foster care.
Jul 14, 2022 · COVER REVEAL: Little Big Man. Jacaranda Books have revealed the final cover for Little Big Man, the gripping upcoming memoir from actor Stanley J. Browne. Featuring a young Stanley posing for a family photograph, the cover channels the 1970s backdrop against which this powerful story begins.
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Antiques expert “My care experience was lifesaving,” says Antiques Roadshow expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan, who recently published a memoir called Would It Surprise You to Know?. “My home situation was dire. My mother had schizophrenia, I had a stepfather who was very violent to my mother and to me. I wanted to be in care to get out of that situation....
Author and music writer When Paolo Hewitt was researching his care memoir, The Looked After Kid, in his early 40s, he went back to Burbank children’s home in Woking, where he lived from 10 to 18, and realised that “it was actually a great experience”, especially compared with the dismal years in foster care that preceded it. “I learned a lot about ...
Award-winning writer Alex Wheatle grew up in care in the notorious Shirley Oaks children’s home in Croydon – “a very lonely existence,” he says. As depicted in Steve McQueen’s TV series Small Axe, he was sent to live in Brixton, where his involvement in the 1981 uprisings led to his incarceration aged 18. “In prison I became an avid reader,” he say...
Actor, singer-songwriter and author In and out of care from the age of five, Stanley J Browne says his “horror story” began aged eight, when he was separated from his siblings and fostered off to Nottingham. He rebelled against the system and later ended up in detention centres and prisons, dealing with drug addiction. His autobiography, Little Big...
Lecturer at Westminster Kingsway college A decade ago, Clare Gorham was “very much pro” transracial adoption. “I would have said that the only thing a child needs is love,” she says, reflecting on her own experience of being happily adopted by her white family in Wimbledon in 1966. “Now my mindset is slightly different. I still think love is the mo...
Artist, activist and academic researcher “There are at least two kinds of narratives about being in care,” says Sylvan Baker. “One is piteous, the other heroic. What happens if you want to be neither? If you just want to be?” Baker was transracially fostered from 11 days old. “I know I was lucky, I was loved,” he says. “But I felt different. I was ...
Lord mayor of the City of Manchester Donna Ludford applied to become lord mayor of the City of Manchester “to raise aspirations for young people in the care system”. She had a deeply unsettled childhood, moving between foster families and children’s homes from the age of six months, after her parents were badly injured in a motorcycle accident. Lud...
Artist Zarina Bhimji was taken into a children’s home at 14, then a foster family. The experience was marked by contradictions relating to her race and religion: “I remember I had chickenpox and I couldn’t go to the mosque, but we were allowed to go and see the Queen as she was visiting the town.” Encouragement from teachers spurred her on to becom...
Novelist and professor Adopted as a baby, Jeanette Winterson grew up in a strict Pentecostalist family in Lancashire. She left home at 16 after coming out as gay – an experience depicted in her 2011 memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Author, broadcaster, chancellor of the University of Manchester Born in Wigan to an Ethiopian mother, Lemn Sissay was placed in foster care as a baby, and sent aged 12 to the first of a series of children’s homes. Later, while piecing together his origins, he discovered that his mother had pleaded for his return and been denied by social services. ...
Jul 8, 2022 · On The Table Read, author, musician and artist Stanley J. Browne talks to JJ Barnes about his life and being inspired to write his new book, Little Big Man.
Oct 14, 2022 · Hardcover – October 14, 2022. by Stanley J. Browne (Author) 5.0 6 ratings. See all formats and editions. AS SEEN IN THE OBSERVER. Stanley J. Browne is an actor, and he has been an actor all his life. Born to a Jamaican mother in a London suburb, he began rehearsing for the role of survivor from an early age.
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