BBC Radio 4 is a radio station that I have a love/hate relationship with.
This morning it broadcast one of those programmes that make paying the licence fee seem like a small price indeed for the quality and originality of what it provides.
The Choice is a show in which Michael Buerk interviews people who have made life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole process, from the original dilemma to living with the consequences.
In today's programme he talks to a convicted paedophile and to his wife, who helped her husband seek treatment after he sexually abused their child.
It was one of the most challenging, thought-provoking and much needed discussions I have ever heard on the radio.
Michael Buerk is a measured, intelligent broadcaster and he handles the subject matter brilliantly.
The widespread sexual abuse of children by adults is one of those horrible realities that we as a society can't seem to comprehend.
It is still being swept under the carpet and children are often not heard.
Doing the work I do, I see how this abuse has a devastating impact on an individuals' development and can impact on their whole life.
Be warned- this programme is not comfortable listening but it opens up a space to discuss what is going wrong- how abuse happens- and gives some hope that is possible to help paedophiles break through their denial, come to terms with their actions and change behaviour.
The Choice's homepage has some very good links for people who have been affected by the issues raised.
A blog about identity and difference: the path to discover who I am, understand my addictions and the madness of the years Out There. A blog with a good heart that will seek to educate, inform and entertain (a bit like the BBC but not so straight).
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