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The Listening Project: Mark and Mayra - Remembering Andrew

Mark and Mayra - Remembering Andrew

18/02/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Mark and Mayra - Remembering Andrew

Andrew dreamed of joining the Royal Marines but suffered a tragic brain haemorrhage.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between Andrew's mother and a family friend, recalling the exceptional 15-year-old who had already made a huge impact on all who knew him.

Fi Glover with a conversation between Andrew's mother and a family friend, recalling the exceptional 15 year old who had already made a huge impact on all who knew him.

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

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