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Sara Wheeler rereads fifty years of diaries and ponders lessons learned.

Sara Wheeler ponders how diaries might enable us to reshape the present as we’re living it.

Sara Wheeler rereads her youthful diaries and ponders lessons learned. 

'Discarding perished rubber bands that once sheaved the slim volumes,' Sara writes, 'I read the story of my own life.'

She wonders if accepting and understanding the past can help us escape 'the three rs of lived experience - regret, remorse and recrimination.' 

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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