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Jeanne and Stu - Getting Checked Out

Fi Glover introduces Dave's widow and his friend, remembering the lively man who died from prostate cancer and discussing why men seem so reluctant to monitor their own health.

Fi Glover introduces Dave's widow and his friend, remembering the lively man who died from prostate cancer, and discussing why men seem so reluctant to monitor their own health. Dave founded ProstAid with Stu's help, and now Stu keeps it going in his memory.

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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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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Fri 15 May 2015 23:55

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