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The Listening Project: Marsha and Cali - Keeping Mum?

10/05/2013

Marsha and Cali - Keeping Mum?

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Marsha and Cali, both recovering addicts, consider their relationship with their children.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two mothers who have both been addicted to drugs, and who now reflect on how they will talk to their own children about drug abuse.

Fi Glover presents a conversation between two mothers who have both been addicted to drugs and who now reflect on how they will talk to their own children about drug abuse, proving once again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen.

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. Most of the unedited 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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