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The Listening Project Live: Live from the Booth outside New Broadcasting House

Fi Glover introduces the new Listening Project mobile recording booth, with assistance from former contributors to the project, the British Library and the booth's architect.

Fi Glover introduces the new Listening Project mobile recording Booth from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Piazza in central London. With her are two former contributors to the Project, plus Rob Perks - Lead Curator of Oral History at the British Library, and Jacob Low, the Booth's architect.

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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Tue 9 Jun 2015 21:30

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  • Tue 9 Jun 2015 09:00
  • Tue 9 Jun 2015 21:30

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