It was an all-male True Stories last night, which wasn’t policy so much as just the way things worked out. Thanks very much to all our turns, beginning with compere turned raconteur Kerry Shale who was candid enough to tell the story of how as a young actor in London he tried to impress an unimpressable young woman. He was followed by Alex McBride, a criminal barrister whose book “Defending The Guilty”is soon to be Radio Four’s book of the week. Alex described the syntactical device whereby barristers get convicted or get off along with their clients and talked about his first victory in the august surroundings of Northampton Magistrates Court. Our regular musical turn this time was Lyndon Morgans of Songdog who talked about how he grew apart from a close childhood friend and sang “A LIfe Eroding”, the title song from his new record. After the interval Piers Torday explained how he came to be the only cyclist in Los Angeles while Will Hodgkinson described his journey to teach himself the guitar in six months, as detailed in his book “Guitar Man”. If you were there and feel you have a story that needs to be told at a future True Stories event, get in touch.