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The Listening Project: Vera and Betty - We Don't Do Age

Vera and Betty - We Don't Do Age

31/07/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Vera and Betty - We Don't Do Age

How running a charity keeps two retired teachers young.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who retired to Hay-on-Wye to relax and ended up running the North Weir Trust.

Fi Glover with a conversation between friends who retired to Hay on Wye to relax, and ended up running the North Weir Trust. Another 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 

Producer: Marya Burgess.

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