Emma De Lucca is a former social worker that for more than thirty years worked with the elderly and who after retiring remains very active.  A persevering single mother who made an impact on the lives of several, especially elderly persons, throughout her long career.

Emma De Lucca

Gloria is a mother who dedicated her life to her son with special needs, who is now 38 years old.  A mother who remains positive despite all that life threw at her. She keeps contributing to people with special needs and remains highly active within her community.

Gloria Callus

John Pisani led a very long career in the world of journalism.  We have read several of his stories, watched footage he shot and photos he took; in this episode, we will get to know the hand, the brains and the person behind this work. For several years, John was one of the first persons on the scene of the events we eventually followed on the news. In this episode, we will learn about his perspective and how these events impacted his life.

John Pisani

Charles Agius is a former international football referee and one of the most successful. At the peak of his career, he suffered a medical condition that brought his career to a halt, a medical condition that sent him to hospital and kept him from walking.

Charles Agius

Carmen Galea is a determined mother of six from Valletta.  From Carmen we learnt how the kids of Valletta used to spend their time during their childhood, a veritable window on the recent past.

Carmen Galea

Veneranda’s nephews and their children know her as Aunty Ven.  Her story is like a time machine that takes us back to times that we will hopefully never live through again, World War II.  Despite all, Veneranda sheds light on the perseverance and the human spirit that helped her family and thousands of families carry on with their lives despite everything.

Veneranda Bugeja

Joyce Bugelli contracted polio at the tender age of eleven months.  There were no vaccines back then and she had to suffer the consequences till today.  Even though Joyce didn’t enjoy the same opportunities as her peers, she remained positive.  She didn’t allow her disability to keep her back.

Joyce Bugelli

Alfred Cauchi is a former dry-docks employee and a craftsman with a passion. Alfred’s story takes us back to 1995 when he learnt that nine of his friends lost their lives. The ship they were working on at the dry docks, the *Um El Faroud* blew up during the night when even he was supposed to be at work. Alfred Cauchi, who for years worked with the same passion on gigantic ships and minuscule chandeliers, that has a melodic singing voice, uses his various talents to bring a smile to those around him.

Alfred Cauchi

Margareth found the love of her life in Ġorġ, now her husband, and left her mother’s home to go live with him.  Margareth recounts how her life changed overnight after her husband suffered a stroke, of which he still suffers the consequences.  In this episode, we learn how she persevered and lived the wedding rite to the full, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, in love and honour throughout all the days of her life.

Margareth Mangion

Carmen Spiteri is known as the seamstress and for some reason. Sewing was and still is one of the main cornerstones of her life.  She still remembers periods of great poverty, the lack of education opportunities and the war.  She takes us back in time to let us realise that what we take for granted today and what we expect with a certain sense of entitlement was not always there.

Carmen Spiteri

Henry Rota still practices sports, loves adventure, challenges and dangers, despite his age, eighty-odd years. He had a somewhat disadvantaged childhood that made him arrogant and successful in business until he suffered a medical condition that made him realise what the important things in life are. In this episode, we discover how he learned to look at life from a different perspective.

Henry Rota

Sonia Young is a familiar voice on RTK radio. In this episode, she tells the story of how she had to leave the job she loved because she got married. She recounts the story of a young woman she met, who had to abandon her daughter in an orphanage because she had her out of wedlock.

Sonia worked at RTK, a religious institution, for years, despite her more liberal thought. She is a person of faith yet banks on science and pragmatism. A few contrasting elements that form and mould a person, away from the stereotypes.


Sonia Young

Mary Portelli is the mother of five kids, the grandmother of nine and the great-grandmother of six.  In this episode, she recounts how, when pregnant with her first child, her husband, a soldier with the British Navy lived abroad.

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