MIKE ANDERSON & NEIL HANSON

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THE TICKET COLLECTOR FROM BELARUS
MIKE ANDERSON & NEIL HANSON

The Ticket Collector from Belarus: a ‘heart-rending tale’

In Review - THE WEEK

The ticket Collector in The Week

Anderson and Hanson deserve praise for their “sensitive” account of a “heart-rending tale”.

Reviewed by The Week Staff

 

“On 21 March 1996, the residents of a south London council estate were startled to see police cars outside the home of an elderly resident,” said Kathryn Hughes in The Sunday Times. They were there to question Anthony Sawoniuk, a 75-year-old known as “Tony the Pole” who had “spent his working life at British Rail, mostly as a ticket collector at London Bridge”.

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