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The Listening Project: Molly and Emma: Just Get Married, Mum!

Molly and Emma: Just Get Married, Mum!

16/11/2012

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Molly and Emma: Just Get Married, Mum!

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between people helped by Children in Need funding.

Fi Glover hears nine-year-old Molly talking to her mum at her after-school club, which Children in Need helps fund. Molly's life would be perfect if her parents would get married.

Fi Glover hears 9 year old Molly talking to her mum at her after-school club at Benchill Community Centre in Wythenshawe, which Children in Need helps to fund. Molly's life would be perfect if only her parents would get married!

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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