In the depths of last winter, musician and sonic artist Isobel Anderson found herself alone at an Abba night in a caravan park in Romney Sands. She’d booked a week-long stay in the flat, featureless coastal landscape near Dungeness, to creatively explore the subject of existential grief for a new project, End Times. And it’s fair to say Abba hadn’t featured in her plans.

A childhood passion for fixing things led Prince Tino to build a business that’s helped tens of thousands of South African children become computer literate. Now living in Hastings, he says his mission is far from finished.

Words by Ruth McLeod In 2015, Mark Caffrey’s close friend asked him, out of the blue, to be the celebrant at her wedding. “I didn’t even...