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The Listening Project: Roger and Cal - Leaving Home for the Circus

Roger and Cal - Leaving Home for the Circus

04/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Roger and Cal - Leaving Home for the Circus

Fi Glover introduces a father and son talking about leaving home for the circus.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation about leaving home. Cal will be saying goodbye to his father Roger when he sets off for Bristol to study circus arts. From October 2013.

Fi Glover presents a timely conversation about leaving home for college. Cal will be leaving his father Roger in County Down when he sets off for Bristol; the same thing is happening all over the nation. But Cal's course is less common: he'll be studying circus arts, 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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