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FAQs about The Listening Project:How many episodes does The Listening Project have?The podcast currently has 423 episodes available.
May 04, 2014Sunday OmnibusFi Glover hears from Devon, Wales and Suffolk about memories of being crowned Queen of the May, calling time on the insidious creep of social media, and nostalgia for pen on paper, all in the Sunday Omnibus of 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more15minPlay
April 27, 2014Sunday OmnibusFi Glover introduces conversations from Cumbria, Wales and Leicester about life with unstable epilepsy, work with search and rescue dogs, and a family predisposed to adventure. All in the Omnibus edition of 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more14minPlay
April 20, 2014Sunday OmnibusFi Glover introduces conversations about Muslim attitudes to the arts, the experience of wartime evacuation, and life with Type 1 diabetes, from Cardiff, Torquay and South Shields, proving once again that 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more14minPlay
April 13, 2014Sunday OmnibusFi Glover introduces conversations about living with wolves, having gastric surgery, and finding inspiration in David Hockney's art, from Devon, Leeds and London, proving yet again that 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more14minPlay
April 06, 2014Sunday OmnibusFi Glover presents the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen, with conversations from Carlisle, Tredegar and Leeds, about marriage second time around, choosing your life's end, and living a life changed by a rugby accident.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/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more14minPlay
December 29, 2013Sunday Edition - Listeners' ChoiceFi Glover introduces introduces the most requested conversations in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more15minPlay
December 22, 2013Sunday Edition - Children's VoicesFi Glover introduces children's views on having a sister with Down's Syndrome, pursuing a career in ballet, being a twin, and silencing a younger brother with imaginary gaffer tape, proving yet again that 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more14minPlay
December 15, 2013Sunday Edition - Women Dealing with LifeFi Glover introduces four conversations in which choices and memories and dealing with what life throws at you all play a part, whether you're talking about terminal cancer, acne, friendship or dreadlocks.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/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more15minPlay
December 08, 2013Sunday Edition - Being ParentsFi Glover introduces conversations ranging from whether to bring up your child as a vegetarian to whether to bring him up with wolves. And then there's whether to be a father in the first place, and the sacrifices and thrills involved if you decide you will. The Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series proves once again that 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject....more15minPlay
December 01, 2013Sunday Edition - The Connection at St Martin in the FieldsFi Glover introduces conversations between people who work at The Connection and those who have found friendship and purpose there, whether through art or cooking, proving again that 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 upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningprojectProducer: Marya Burgess....more15minPlay
FAQs about The Listening Project:How many episodes does The Listening Project have?The podcast currently has 423 episodes available.