Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line

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Forgiveness: Stories from the Frontline

Gripping stories from people who've had to struggle with forgiveness in order to be free.

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

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Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line: Trevor

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Trevor's student daughter took her own life. Can he forgive the system that failed her?

Trevor Steven's daughter Tobi took her own life while a student in Norwich. Trevor talks to presenter Marina Cantacuzino about forgiveness in the context of institutional failure.

Trevor Steven's most treasured possession is a photograph album made for him on his 60th birthday by his daughter Tobi . It contains shots of many of the happy times they spent together.  

While Trevor and his wife were aware that Tobi had problems with her mental health, they were unaware that the seriousness of her illness would lead to suicide.  As a student in Norwich, she was failed by the mental health services that should have saved her as she repeatedly overdosed and threatened to take her own life.    

How does forgiveness work when it's an organisation rather than an individual that has fallen short and caused such grief and pain?  Marina Cantacuzino, founder of the charity The Forgiveness Project,  is in conversation with Trevor for this moving story. 

Presented by Marina Cantacuzino
Produced by Susan Marling
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