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25/08/2016

Listening Project Live from Swansea

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Fi Glover and friends consider Welsh conversations in the booth by Swansea Central Library

As the Listening Project mobile booth nears the end of its summer tour, it plays host to Fi Glover and guests to reflect on the Welsh relationship with language and literature.

As The Listening Project mobile Booth nears the end of its summer tour, it plays host to Fi Glover and guests to reflect on the Welsh relationship with language and literature.

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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