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Making Amends: Alyssa

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By Nick Walker. Alyssa flies to Athens to make peace with her ex-partner, Bruce.

By Nick Walker. Alyssa combines a trip to Athens with making her peace with her ex-partner, Bruce.

Five wry stories on the nature of and need for apology, by Nick Walker, the writer of Annika Stranded.

Making Amends is a therapeutic process that encourages people to recognise behaviour in their past which, because of addiction problems, goes against their values and standards. But the need to make amends and apologise for lapses of behaviour is not just confined to the addicted.

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Alyssa combines a trip to Athens with making her peace with her ex-partner, Bruce.

Nick Walker is the writer of Annika Stranded, which ran for six seasons on BBC Radio 4 between 2013 and 2020. Annika - a TV version - will be broadcast in 2021. He has also written two critically-acclaimed novels , Blackbox and Helloland. His plays and other short stories for radio include The First King of Mars, Life Coach and Stormchasers.

Writer: Nick Walker
Reader: Rosie Cavaliero
Sound Design: Jon Calver
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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