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The Listening Project: Sunday Omnibus - Christine and Adam

26/10/2014

Sunday Omnibus - Christine and Adam

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Sunday Omnibus - Christine and Adam

Three excerpts from the same conversation between mother and son about secrets and sadness

Fi Glover with a conversation between a mother and son from Carlisle about whose right it was to reveal he was gay and the depression that both he and his father have experienced.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and son from Carlisle about whose right it was to reveal he was gay, and the depression which both he and his father have experienced, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves 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 learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess.

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