Jo Fidgen

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136 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Documentary Podcast · Bonus: Forgiving a killer - from Lives Less Ordinary · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, you said when that happened that you felt your soul leave your body.

When did it come back?

Yes.

And those two little boys.

Yeah.

They survived.

You helped them survive.

You say it's been a very long process, understandably, to find the value in life and the beauty in life again.

What about immediately afterwards?

How does an experience like that settle in your body?

Because of the noise of it?

Given the trauma, what made you, just I think a week after the attack, pick up the manifesto that Breivik had written before he went on his killing expedition?

Why did you want to read that?

I mean, it's an extraordinary response, isn't it?

To sort of take a rational mind to this situation when you're dealing with what you're dealing with.

I mean, you talk about wanting to get back to life as a student.

You went back to the UK, didn't you, to Liverpool to pick up your studies.

How do you make that adjustment to go from the summer you've had to a new term with a bunch of students whose lives have carried on as normal and they're doing all the normal things and having fun?

And how do you fit back into that?

So how soon after this did you go back to university?

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