Author: Steve Humphries

Sue Elliott is the author of the bestselling memoir and history of adoption Love Child (Vermilion, 2005) and The Children Who Fought Hitler (John Murray, 2009), which relates the Second World War exploits of former pupils of the British Memorial School in Ypres. She was a researcher on the BBC4 documentary of the same name made by Testimony.Steve Humphries, described by Broadcast magazine as “the king of oral history”, is a former history and sociology lecturer at the University of Essex. After working as a producer at London Weekend Television, where he made landmark series such as The Making of Modern London (for which he also co-wrote the accompanying four books), he set up Testimony Films in Bristol in 1992. Since then, Testimony has made over 60 single documentaries and series for all the public service broadcasters and for specialist digital channels.