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Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line

How do you survive and restore your life when something truly appalling is done to you? Journalist Marina Cantacuzino hears five gripping stories.

Radio 4,15 episodes

Episodes

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5. Lejla
Lejla Damon was born as a result of sexual violence in war. Is forgiveness possible?
07 Nov 2025,14 mins
4. Gethin
Gethin Jones had a hard childhood and a life of crime. Who to blame and who to forgive?
06 Nov 2025,14 mins
3. Marie
How can Marie Johnson forgive the man who killed her mother and step father?
05 Nov 2025,14 mins
2. Lis
Lis Cashin had to wait many years to forgive herself for a tragic teenage accident.
04 Nov 2025,14 mins
1. Magen
Marina Cantacuzino begins by talking to an Israeli man whose parents were killed by Hamas.
03 Nov 2025,14 mins
Trevor
Trevor's student daughter took her own life. Can he forgive the system that failed her?
09 Feb 2024,14 mins
Jayne
Jayne's story is of childhood sexual abuse. Can she forgive her father now he's dying?
08 Feb 2024,14 mins
Mathew
Can Mathew forgive his father for the conversion therapy he suffered as a gay teenager?
07 Feb 2024,14 mins
Marian
Marian's sister Lucy was murdered by Fred and Rosemary West. Could there be forgiveness?
06 Feb 2024,14 mins
Paul
Paul was brutally attacked in his own home. Could he forgive his imprisoned assailant?
05 Feb 2024,14 mins
Ivan
Ivan Humble looks back on his past as an organiser for the racist English Defence League.
01 Jul 2022,14 mins
Father Lapsley
Father Michael Lapsley lost his hands and one eye in a bomb attack. Can he forgive?
30 Jun 2022,14 mins
Salimata
Salimata Badji Knight is a survivor of female genital mutilation.
29 Jun 2022,14 mins
Jude
Jude Whyte’s mother was killed in a bomb attack in Belfast. He talks to Marina Cantacuzino
28 Jun 2022,14 mins
Rosalyn
Rape survivor Rosalyn on meeting her attacker.
27 Jun 2022,14 mins