“I’m not an extraordinary person, but something extraordinary happened to me,” says Frome resident Jo Berry. After her father was killed in the Brighton bomb of 1984, Jo reached out to the ex-IRA combatant Patrick Magee who had planted it. Determined to avoid bitterness and blame, she’s been in an unprecedented dialogue with Patrick for the past 24 years, and has travelled to places of conflict all over the world sharing her experience of how kindness and forgiveness can lead to understanding and peace. At a time of increasing polarization and demonization, join us for a fascinating exploration of what it takes to challenge our assumptions, certainties and judgments, and of how we also can develop empathy for people we label the ‘other’.