BBC Radio Podcasts from The Listening Project

The Listening Project

The Final Edition

Anti-tax activists; young, single mums and forced adoption; gardening across generations.

Love and Loss

Bereavement and grief, prejudice in the health system, high street shops and Eurovision.

Passions, pluck and pride

Dog bites, the future of local news, living with a stammer and the love of… shoes.

Staying Positive

Sickle cell disease, going on a pilgrimage and being a woman in a male-dominated sport.

Pride and Passion

Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today.

Dreams and Reality

The joys of volunteering, modern football fandom, having kids versus not having kids.

Consuming Passions

Football and the Women's Euros; bicycles and cars; cryogenics; and streaming and vinyl.

Living History

Strikes and policing, superheroes, alternative ways of getting to work.

Lessons in Life

Strikes; loneliness, Long Covid kids and home schooling, the joy of being ten years old.

Making a Different Future

Diversity at festivals, choices at 18+, Kate Bush revival and a 10th anniversary catch-up.

The Human Need to Connect

Pride UK, the mother-daughter bond, Father's Day and a passion for the TV soap Neighbours.

Open to Change

Cost of living crisis, travel chaos at airports, Northern Ireland’s future and bushcraft.

The Power of Language

War in Ukraine, homophobia in football, the Project's archive at the British Library.

Finding the Answer

Rewilding, beachcombing, ambulance delays and body image. Fi Glover presents.

Trials and Tribulations

Surviving horror, the rights and wrongs of horse racing, second homes, the afterlife.

Walking the Tightrope

Life and laughs on the comedy circuit, and raising young men to respect young women.

Strength in Numbers

Cost of living crisis, the environment, the DNA of protest, voting. Fi Glover presents.

Adapting and Nurturing

The Falklands War, male infertility, French ex-pats, fostering and adoption.

Floods, fashion, town and country

Flooding, fashion, city life and country life. Fi Glover presents.

Belief & the Wonder of Nature

Big cats, night skies, long Covid and when the person you love has a different belief.

Living Costs

The increasing cost of living; of heating your home; and windfarms. Fi Glover presents.

Ukraine Special

Fi Glover presents three conversations relating to the conflict in Ukraine.

The Power of Love

Running safely; military wives; relationships with phones; disability and dating.

Ready for Change

Learning to read as an adult; grammar and punctuation; delays in fertility treatment.

Past, Present and Future

Nursing; Down’s syndrome and the desire to live independently; managing birth families.

Resilience is...

Whistleblowers, living with epilepsy, acting and ageism. Fi Glover presents.

Tight Spaces

Working in a GP surgery, squeezing into tight spaces for fun, growing old with attitude.

Jigsaw of Experience

The shape of modern families, long lost siblings and living with flammable cladding.

On the frontline

The nation in conversation, in partnership with the British Library. With Fi Glover.

The Best of 2021

Fi Glover presents a selection of powerful conversations gathered this year.

Who Cares?

Skip diving and foraging, playing Santa and financial hardship at Christmas and beyond.

Behind the bar of Life

Hospitality, profound deafness, eco-friendly Christmases and the Republic of Barbados.

Hard-won Battles

Fi Glover presents four chats about homelessness, obesity, career changes and toy shops.

Life Experiences

Three chats on asylum seekers and homelessness; marriage; men working in a woman's world.

Changing Hearts and Minds

Kofi Smiles presents three conversations on climate change, change of faith, surrogacy.

Men Talking

Fi Glover presents men-only chats about PTSD, how to be a modern man and racism in sport.

Welcome to my World

Life in the shadow of Cop26, how to make a house share work, K-pop and having ginger hair.

Life-Changing

Halloween, endometriosis, noise from cars and private planes, and spiking women’s drinks.

Once Bitten

Fi Glover presents chats on river pollution, fear of builders, being scammed and clowns.

Breaking Barriers

Space, the final frontier; tattoos, facing prejudice and motorbikes with sidecars.

About Prejudice

Trucking, decriminalising drugs and post-Covid prejudice against Chinese people.

Feeling connected

Capturing the nation in conversation, in partnership with the British Library.

Truth and Representation

Fi Glover with three conversations about Afghanistan, contested statues and mermaids.

The Winds of Change

Three conversations: Afghanistan, working from home and children going off to university.

Stepping into the Unknown

Fi Glover presents chats on education, fossil fuels, naturism and losing a loved one.

Challenging Perceptions

Three conversations on reading versus gaming, blindness and being a stay at home parent.

A Meeting of Minds

Fi Glover presents conversations on food, the name Karen and having Parkinson's Disease.

Taking Cover

Fi Glover presents conversations on make-up, dyslexia and student life in pandemic times.

Life Changing

Fi Glover presents conversations on beating hearts, climate change & remote working.

Awards and Challenges

MBE awards, Tourette syndrome and adventuring outdoors.

Anything Is Possible

Cats versus dogs, autograph hunters, Huntington’s Disease and madcap ways of fundraising.

What Life Throws at you

Food outlets in Northern Ireland, mental health and exercise, overcoming a criminal past.

Who are we?

Conversations on the theme of national identity and being voted ‘best place to live’.

Looking and listening

Memories of an unhappy school experience, living with schizophrenia, ballet and stripping.

Family ties

From the pressures of caring for a loved one to an unexpected truth for a mum and daughter

Shared histories

Two friends share the pain of being widowed, plus 50 years of women's football in England.

Knowing ourselves

From a revelatory diagnosis to taking pride in one's heritage.

Surviving and thriving

A conversation about surviving childhood abuse and using the experience to help others.

The Listening Project

Second homes, holiday lets and the growing impact on Welsh communities, Elvis tribute act.

A life's work

From keeping the streets safe, to caring for the sick, and raising the next generation.

A place to belong

From the family we're born into or create, to places and communities that bring comfort.

Hotels and Hugs

What lockdown easing will mean for hospitality and sociability.

Living on the outside

Facing stereotypes, living with BPD and what lies behind the tenant-landlord relationship.