Nicky Campbell

Nicky Campbell, the well-known TV and radio presenter was brought up in a comfortable Scottish home by his adoptive parents. As an adult he traced his birth-mother, and found out that he had a sister and that his father was a committed Irish Republican. Campbell examines this clash of cultures, and re-evaluates his own life and actions.

Raw, honest and courageous in One of the Family, Nicky opens up about how being adopted has made him always feel like an outsider; the guilt he has carried towards his Mum and Dad for needing to trace his birth mother, and the crushing disappointment he felt when he finally met her. And for the first time, he writes about his emotional breakdown and how he has learned to live with a late diagnosis of bipolar.

Through it all his passion for dogs and animals has been a lifeline. It is Maxwell's magic, a lesson from a Labrador in simple unconditional friendship, that has allowed him to see all the good in his life.