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The Listening Project: Coming out: Rikki and Monica

Coming out: Rikki and Monica

13/04/2012

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Coming out: Rikki and Monica

Jamaican-born Monica talks to her son Rikki about being gay and about having a gay son.

Jamaican-born Monica talks to her son Rikki about being gay, coming out and about having a gay son.

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation. Jamaican-born Monica talks to her son Rikki about being gay, coming out and about having a gay son. And you can hear an omnibus edition of all today's conversations, plus an extra encounter, on Sunday at 2.45pm.

The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Many of the long conversations are being archived by the British Library which they will use to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject 

Producer Simon Elmes.

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