Adam Hart

On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE 'Special Duties' airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Pimento, but they were shot down near Annecy in southeast France. Only Frank survived. Though seriously injured, Frank felt it was his duty to get back...

August 1943: Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths is the only survivor of Operation Pimento, a secret World War 2 mission to disrupt supply lines from Italy into Nazi-occupied France. Though seriously injured, Frank embarks on a perilous, 1,200-mile, 108-day escape across France, Switzerland, and Spain. August 2022: Adam Hart retraces his great-grandfather's epic journey, meeting descendants of people who risked...

From army ants to leopards, crocodiles to sharks, leopard seals, ‘killer whales’, lions, eagles and wolves, there seems to be no shortage of species ready and able to eat us. But what do species really think of us as food and how often are we on the menu? In The Deadly Balance, Adam Hart explores the idea of humans as...