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The Listening Project: Sunday Omnibus

22/04/2012

Sunday Omnibus

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Sunday Omnibus

Fi Glover presents conversations from Belfast, Oxfordshire and Humberside.

Fi Glover presents the series that captures the nation in conversation. Featuring stories from Belfast, Oxfordshire and Humberside.

Fi Glover presents the Sunday Omnibus edition of Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation: today Barbara talks to her best friend Becky about her compulsive disorder and how it's affected her life; Humberside transsexual Michelle discusses living as a woman with her friend Cilla; Bob talks to his son-in-law James about his life of crime and Jim and Joan from Northern Ireland share an intimate moment of conversation about growing old together and the end of life.

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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