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Rachel and Mandy - Losing a Child

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Rachel and Mandy - Losing a Child

Fi Glover listens in on a friendship that has grown closer through tragedy.

After Rachel lost her 19-year-old daughter to septicaemia, her friendship with Mandy became even closer. Fi Glover listens in on their conversation.

After Rachel lost her 19 year old daughter to septicaemia, her friendship with Mandy became even closer.

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 learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess.

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