The photographs of Tom Hurndall, killed by an Israeli soldier in Gaza, reveal his bravery and talent, writes Sunita Rappai

TWO years ago, as the world watched and waited in anticipation of war in the Gulf, a slight young man on the cusp of his photographic career flew out to the Middle East.
Tom Hurndall, a 21-year-old student from Tufnell Park, had photographed the anti-war march in London and was determined to travel to Baghdad to cover the conflict and Saddam’s human shields.
For the dedicated photography student at Manchester Metropolitan University, it was in effect his first ever assignment.
“He was determined to bring back the best photo,” says his mother, Jocelyn Hurndall, who lives in Burghley Road. “He had become interested in photography about four years before and photojournalism was a natural choice for him. He had tremendous courage and an insistence on finding out the truth.”

Primo Levi’s classic personal account of the Holocaust has always been deemed ‘unstageable’, until now, writes Jane Wright

THERE will be absolutely no striped pyjamas in evidence over the next three weeks as theatrical knight Sir Antony Sher brings “the unstageable” horrors of Auschwitz to Hampstead Theatre.
As well as performing his monologue Primo, Sir Antony also abridged it himself from the concentration camp memoir If This is a Man by the Italian Holocaust survivor Primo Levi.

The insatiable sexual appetite of artist Daphne Charlton created a thriving community, writes Peter Gruner

SEX was not invented in 1963 – as the late Philip Larkin wrote – they were at it feverishly in New End Square, Hampstead, way back in the 1930s.
At least Daphne Charlton was, with as many partners as she could entice into her studio home, although, sadly for him, none of them included her too docile artist husband George.