What does it really mean to forgive?
A new BBC Radio 4 series variously frames forgiveness as difficult, healing, a tool to regain power and an act of “healthy selfishness”.
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Anna Leszkiewicz
Anna Leszkiewicz is associate editor, culture and interviews, at the New Statesman.
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