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The Listening Project: Lesley and Kieron - Surfing Through Life

Lesley and Kieron - Surfing Through Life

29/11/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Listening Project, Lesley and Kieron - Surfing Through Life

Fi Glover introduces a conversation about whether life should change when you have a child

A mother asks her son if surfing and skateboarding should still be his priorities now that he is a father? Introduced by Fi Glover. From November 2013.

Fi Glover introduces a conversation where a mother questions her son's priorities since he became a father; should surfing and skateboarding still take centre stage, even if the fact that he's celebrating beating Crohn's disease influences his outlook?

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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

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