Duncan Leatherdale

Duncan is an experienced newspaper and online journalist working in the North East of England. He has a degree in Journalism with English Literature from the University of Sunderland and had been working for the regional press for seven years before joining the BBC in August 2014\. 'Life of a Teenager in Wartime London' is his first book.

Bunty was born and raised in London, one of two children to baker Alfred and his wife Gertrude. After the war she married the navigator of a Lancaster bomber and the pair had two sons. She worked as a physiotherapist and now, having retired some years ago, lives in Bradford-on-Avon near Bath. Despite having a new hip and being 91, she still drives and enjoys walks and feeding the badgers who visit her garden each night.