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The Listening Project: Jan and Kate - A Bolt from the Blue

Jan and Kate - A Bolt from the Blue

13/03/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Jan and Kate - A Bolt from the Blue

A diagnosis of motor neurone disease and a first grandchild led Jan to contact the project

Jan's diagnosis with motor neurone disease has been balanced to a certain extent by the news that she will soon be a grandmother. She and her daughter face their uncertain future.

Jan's diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease has been balanced to a certain extent by the news that she will soon be a grandmother. She and her daughter face their uncertain future, introduced by Fi Glover in another conversation in 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

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