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The Listening Project: The Listening Project Live from Cumbria

The Listening Project Live: Live from the Booth outside New Broadcasting House

14/09/2015

The Listening Project Live from Cumbria

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, The Listening Project Live from Cumbria

Fi Glover and guests are in Cumbria to explore landscape and conversations in extremis.

On the shores of Derwent Water in Keswick, Fi Glover explores conversations that occur during mountain rescue and the effects of recording a Listening Project conversation.

On the shores of Derwent Water in Keswick Fi Glover explores conversations that occur in the course of mountain rescue and the effects of recording a Listening Project conversation with guests in the mobile Booth.

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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