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Conversations between friends and family considering their democratic choice.

Eavesdropping on the arguments, ambitions and bewilderment of voters facing their democratic decisions in the run-up to the 2017 general election. How views change with age.

How views change with age, with the possibility of engagement for the Traveller community, and in the aftermath of the Manchester attack. Fi Glover presents.

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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Fi Glover introduces the arguments, ambitions and bewilderment of voters considering their democratic decisions in the run-up to the 2017 general election.

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