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Radio 4,4 mins

Why I wrote an imagined apology from my father after years of sexual abuse

Woman's Hour

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Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues was first performed in 1996 and became a worldwide phenomenon. Her recent book The Apology is an imagined letter from her father apologising to her for a lifetime of devastating sexual, physical and emotional abuse. She tells Jenni Murray on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour why she's written the book from the perspective of her father and why it might provide a blue-print for apologies in the #metoo era.

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