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The Listening Project: Sunday Edition - Family Support

Sunday Edition - Family Support

20/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Sunday Edition - Family Support

Fi Glover focuses on the support supplied by grandparents, mothers and daughters.

Fi Glover introduces three conversations between grandparents, a grandchild, and a mother and daughter; the strength of their relationships and enduring support shines through.

Fi Glover introduces conversations between grandparents, a grandchild, and a mother and daughter
in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The strength of their relationships and their enduring support shines through all three.

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

Producer: Marya Burgess.

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