"If [music] had anything but piano and organ, like if it had electric guitar or drums, it was considered Satanic or bad," he says, highlighting the extremism of his parents' beliefs. "We weren't allowed to go to movie theaters, we weren't allowed to watch movies, we didn't have TV. All the girls in our house had to wear skirts ... even to bed, I had to wear skirts."
"Everything seemed to come full circle - and then some. I stepped onto the field at Yankee Stadium as an out gay man and in an environment that encapsulates the mix of my passions for baseball and my identity."
Chef Gearóid Lynch’s journey with motor neurone disease (MND) underscores that a diagnosis can hold different meanings, and there can be hope beyond the expected.
"I felt like this country gave me so much, I really fell in love with it. A way to give back through food was to educate people about the country and their cuisine and the history, because it's all so intertwined."
But everyone we approached told us there was absolutely no chance of getting planning permission to build on our agricultural land - it was so frustrating.
Kingma's collaboration on The Power of Choice allowed him to confront his fear of death and provided a unique insight into the lives of those who chose assisted dying.