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The Listening Project: Sigs and Pauline - They Shoot Horses Don't They

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25/11/2016

Sigs and Pauline - They Shoot Horses Don't They

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It looks like this difficult decision is not going to go away.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between horse owners facing the decision of when to call it a day, now a beloved animal's health means he can be no more than a 'field ornament'.

Fi Glover Fi Glover with a conversation between horse owners facing the decision of when to call it a day, now a beloved animal's health means he can be no more than a 'field ornament'. 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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