XRATS is a blend of social history and a Whodunit. The protagonist behind this site has lived an ordinary if somewhat varied life. It is this variety rather the uniqueness of his experiences that has given him a raft of insights into other people's worlds. It is not an autobiography like "Serious" or "My Side," which, by their authors' supremacy in their sport, makes them engaging for the fans but perhaps a little one-dimensional for others, it is an investigation into a life that has been partly successful, sometimes disastrous, occasionally scandalous but always colourful.

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The biographers (and producers) of XRATS.co.uk are media students from a higher education college. The life of the protagonist is explored by them through a series of live interviews. They will attempt to test the protagonist on what is absolute fact and what is just good story telling getting in the way of the truth.

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The audience, the visitors to the site, are invited to participate by downloading the interviews (audio and visual), posing their own questions, or even trying to discriminate what is fact and what is fiction. The tale weaves its way from Strawberry Hill and Eel Pie Island via The Great Australian Bight, Malarial Africa, and Arctic Russia to the minefields of Houston, Texas. So, for the price of a pint (1/3d), find out how the story would never have unfolded if a Polish cargo ship had not stopped to pick up survivors from British a troop ship sunk by U-172, or if a Territorial Army nurse had ended up in Singapore rather than Poona (now Pune), India.

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If you are even a little intrigued, please browse the site and see if you can tease out fact from fiction.

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Good luck, and enjoy!