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The Listening Project: Jean and Joff - I Didn't Want You to Be from a Broken Home

Jean and Joff - I Didn't Want You to Be from a Broken Home

30/09/2016

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Jean and Joff - I Didn't Want You to Be from a Broken Home

In the 1980s being from a single parent family still carried a stigma.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and son about his childhood and the relief when, 30 years on, she discovers he has only happy memories.

Fi Glover with a conversation between a mother and son about his childhood and the relief when, 30 years on, she discovers he has only happy memories.
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

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