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Apr 2025
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Committed: 3. How Does It Feel When They...

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In episode three, Clare and Rivkah find out what it’s like to see your loved ones locked up. How do the Just Stop Oil prisoners’ families make sense of their crimes? When your partner is in prison, how can your relationship survive? And what’s it like to know your fiancée would choose activism over you?

Final episode coming on 2 May.

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