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Alan Johnston, Corn Exchange, Brighton, May 24
4:58pm Monday 26th May 2008
When the BBC's Gaza correspondent was kidnapped by The Army Of Islam last April one of his captors told him three things.
He would survive, he would write a book about his ordeal and he would get married.
While at times during his 114-day living nightmare the journalist feared he would in fact be killed, two of those predictions came true.
Sat in front of a sell-out crowd at the Corn Exchange, Johnston was obviously alive and well and also the author of a new book, Kidnapped.
Johnston shed no light on his captor's final prediction - the marriage - but the lack of a wedding ring gleaming under the stage lights would hint he was wrong on one count.
The softly-spoken journalist, who is now based at the World Service in London (a position he hinted may not last long), movingly described his ordeal against the backdrop of political unrest in Gaza.
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Johnson gave a moving account of his ordeal
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- Glow, Fabrica, Brighton, May 23
- Romeo & Juliet, Dyke Road Rest Garden, Brighton, May 24
- Mark E Smith, The Old Courtroom, Brighton, May 24
- Jarvis Cocker, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, May 23
- Story Of A Rabbit, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, until May 24
- Traces, Theatre Royal, Brighton, until May 24
- The Marriage Of Figaro, Theatre Royal, Brighton, May 14
- Gravity & Levity – Shift, Corn Exchange, Brighton, May 12
- So Close To Home, No 10 Circus Parade, Brighton, until May 25
- Johnny’s Midnight Goggles, Dome Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, May 12
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