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The Listening Project: Noel and Roy: Too Late to Say 'Thanks Mum'

Noel and Roy: Too Late to Say 'Thanks Mum'

26/10/2012

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Noel and Roy: Too Late to Say 'Thanks Mum'

Roy and Noel wish they could have their mother back to thank her for buying 'Yakety Yak'.

Fi Glover hears from identical twins Roy and Noel, who wish they could have their mother back to say thanks for buying them 'Yakety Yak', even if it was only a cover version.

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. Identical twins Roy and Noel, from County Down, wish they could have their mother back to say thank you for the buying them Yakety Yak, even if it was only a cover version.

The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a 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 and used 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 

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