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The Listening Project: Sunday Edition - Couples Talking

Sunday Edition - Couples Talking

10/11/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Sunday Edition - Couples Talking

Fi Glover with four conversations between couples about the challenges they face together.

Fi Glover introduces conversations between couples about pregnancy, weight loss, the anxieties of being an army wife and how two different worlds can collide within a marriage.

Fi Glover introduces conversations between four couples about pregnancy, weight loss and marathons, being an army wife, and how two different worlds can collide within a marriage, 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

Producer: Marya Burgess.

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