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25 years and a day after the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in an attempt to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and other members of the British government, the man who planted that bomb and the daughter of one of those he killed shared a platform in the UK Parliament.


The full transcript of the meeting - jointly hosted by The Forgiveness Project and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues - will be published here shortly. But earlier in the day they gave an extended joint interview to the BBC World Service. Listen here.


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