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

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

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

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

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Capturing the nation in conversation as we emerge from lockdown.

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

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When Talking Matters Most

When Talking Matters Most

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Separation and Trauma

Separation and Trauma

Sunday Edition: John and William - The way the cookie crumbles

Sunday Edition: John and William - The way the cookie crumbles

Sunday Edition: Becky and Bill - Try being me for a day

Sunday Edition: Becky and Bill - Try being me for a day

Sunday Edition: Neil and Daisy - It's your world now

Sunday Edition: Neil and Daisy - It's your world now

Sunday Edition: Mark and Darren - I Didn’t Even Know Your Name Was Darren”

Sunday Edition: Mark and Darren - I Didn’t Even Know Your Name Was Darren”

Eva and Gerry - Everyone Dines with the Devil

Eva and Gerry - Everyone Dines with the Devil

Stuff that life can throw at us

Stuff that life can throw at us

Dealing with Mental Illness

Dealing with Mental Illness

Tattooing, voice communication and the dark side of comedy

Tattooing, voice communication and the dark side of comedy

The art of helping people

The art of helping people

In the friendship zone

In the friendship zone

Beginnings and belonging

Beginnings and belonging

The Listening Project Christmas Special

The Listening Project Christmas Special

Family, Friendship and Fitting in

Family, Friendship and Fitting in

Approaching Adulthood

Approaching Adulthood

All about Relationships

All about Relationships

From This World and Beyond

From This World and Beyond

All About Reliance

All About Reliance

Children in Need

Children in Need

Workplace Friendships, Shared Experiences

Workplace Friendships, Shared Experiences

Children, Parents and Grandparents

Children, Parents and Grandparents

Community, Friendship and Family

Community, Friendship and Family

Marathon running, Rubik cubing and single-parenting

Marathon running, Rubik cubing and single-parenting

The Joy of Belonging

The Joy of Belonging

Defined by Place

Defined by Place

All About Global Citizenship

All About Global Citizenship

Cancer, Cross-Dressing and Creative Minds

Cancer, Cross-Dressing and Creative Minds

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Boating, Caring and Grandparenting

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If You've Got it, Flaunt It

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Things That Make Relationships Work

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Body Dysmorphia, Men's Groups and Communicating with the Deaf

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Education, Friendship and Art in Action

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Music, New Technology and Times Past

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Nursing, Swimming and Running

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Women of a Certain Age

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Home is Where the Heart is

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SUN 16 June 2019 Love and Family

SUN 9 June 2019

The Bond Between Teacher and Pupil

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SUN 2 June 2019 Friendship, Cultural Differences and Support

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Friendship, Motherhood and Politics

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19 May 2019 Art, Sexuality and Faith

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The Tombola of Life

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Working in the Arts, Working with Dogs and Young Dads and Mental Health

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Challenges of Parenthood

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Wheelchairs, Eyesight and being HIV Positive

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Language and Storytelling

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Boxing, Running and Nursing

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Families - From a Male Perspective

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Bullying, Gender and Identity

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Stepping Out of the Box

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Suddenly Everything Changes

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Love, Death and ADHD

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Cold Seas and Crossing the Street

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Glam Rock and Gooseberries

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Love Lost and Found

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Omnibus

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Friends of Old

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Art, horse riding and gaming

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

The career paths we choose to take

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

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The Positive Power of Change

Writing, Reading and Speaking

Conversations about the power of the spoken and written word

Life is Finite

Reflections on the death of parents and on getting older.

Women and Identity

Whether it's being Vietnamese, a baptised Sikh, or an unwavering feminist

A Male Perspective

On cricket, on divorce, and on starting a curry restaurant

Not Conforming To The Norm

The experience of having dyslexia or a cleft palate, or being unable to breast feed.

Changed by Loss

The impact of sudden death or suicide on those left behind.

Aging Gracefully

As friends, as grandparents, or as ghosts in the mirror

Making a Difference

Through learning, belly-dancing, or donating sperm

Making the Best of Things

Whether it's a liver transplant, a wheelchair, or a son with unusual interests

Someone To Turn To

Whether it's a mentor or a long-standing friend, we all need somebody

Losing Loved Ones

Whether to a long, slow decline, or to a shockingly sudden death

Being Who You Are

Challenging stereotypes and standing tall

A Certain Stage in Life

Accepting what you can't change later in life, and getting on with what you can change.

My Special Brother

Three brothers with special needs and a huge capacity for joy and enthusiasm

Health Care

Needles may hurt, but treatment is still a lot less painful than it was before the NHS

Doctors and Nurses

The stresses and the rewards of a career in the NHS

Family Influences

In poetry, in jazz, or in the lasting impact of children - however young - on parents

Lifeboatmen

They risk their lives for those in peril at sea

Artistic Inspiration

The expansiveness of art

Getting Through It

Surviving marriage breakdown and a bombing

Support When Needed

Either during or after birth, or at primary school

Inspirational Others

Finding the person who helps you realise your potential

Open To Change

Adopting a child, letting go of religion and moving on after bankruptcy

Sharing The Load

Friends and family supporting those with health issues

Language and Belonging

How you speak, how you look, and what you're called all affect how you are perceived

Places Life Takes You

The ultimate destination is death, but everyone travels a different journey

Fathers and Sons

An exploration of the relationship at different stages of life

Planned and Unplanned Parenthood

The changes over time in having a baby out of wedlock

The Things That Bind Couples Together

It can be football, or music, or simply providing support and understanding

Adventures in Parenting

Being a parent is a rollercoaster ride of love, acceptance, and responsibility

Being True to Yourself

Taking control of your life, your death, and the infinite blue of the ocean

Conversations With or About Mum

Stammering, death and Motor Neurone Disease are all shared in this poignant selection

Men of Ulster

Men who have used their creativity to reflect their experience of their homeland

Living in the Best of Times

Love, age and periods

Feeling At Home

Where you feel welcome and understood

Reflections on the World of Work

Fire-fighter or a musician, aquarist or factory worker

Coming Clean

Three exceptionally honest and revealing conversations

Meanings in Life

Three conversations about the things that give life meaning

Inspiration

Stained glass, friends who listen, late-in-life-love, and mother-daughter closeness

In Recovery

Recovery from PTSD, Addiction, and Everyday Life

Why We Choose the Jobs We Do

Life experience can direct our career path

We Aren't Always The Same Person

Identity is more than how you look or sound, or where you live

The Power of Dance

Whether it's ballet or contemporary dance, the joy of movement can boost self-confidence.

Children in Need

Life as a young carer or with terminal cancer or just facing challenges when growing up

Challenging Perceptions of Disability

Down's Syndrome, Type 1 Diabetes and Learning Disabilities don't need to be life-limiting

Men on Work, Food and Friendship

Trials of management, joys of foraging, rewards of longterm friendship, with Fi Glover.

A Child’s Perspective

Redheads, football, Eastern Europe, siblings with Down's. Child's eye view with Fi Glover

Female Friendship

You can rely on your women friends - new or long-standing. Fi Glover presents.

Abused in Childhood

Abuse by family or those meant to care for a child is never forgotten. Fi Glover presents

Omnibus – Mothers and Daughters

Sharing the stage, a faith or the experience of being an incomer

Omnibus – Facing Forward

Planning funerals and dealing with marriage where one partner falls ill

Omnibus – Principles that Guide Us

Lives affected by political or religious belief or social pressure

Omnibus - Health Matters

Life-changing accidents, kidney donation and life as a junior doctor

Omnibus – Together and Apart

Starting at uni, dealing with the empty nest, and long distance love

Omnibus - Perspectives on Disability

Conversations about living with disability - your own or your child's or your parent's

Omnibus - The Things That Bind Us

Hair, film and identity can all bring us together

Omnibus – The Fun and Freedom of Times Past

Memories of unencumbered travel, riotous good works and Londonderry at the weekend.

Omnibus - Fire in the Belly

Whether it's human rights or veganism that puts it there, or the need to avoid gluten

Omnibus - A Question of Faith

Different beliefs and different faiths in conversation

Omnibus - Rock, Pop and Prom

The influence of musical events on our lives

Omnibus - The World According to Boys

Meeting the requirements of the adult world can be hard work

Omnibus – Friends and Mentors

Supportive relationships forged in the swimming pool, the office, and in childhood.

Omnibus – Men in Conversation

Losing your sense of smell, learning to love, and loving to travel on the bus.

Omnibus - Teachers

The experience of teaching, past and present.

Omnibus - Working Life

Conversations about the choices involved in choosing our career paths

Omnibus – Let’s Be Honest

Honest conversations about relationships, pets, football and gardening

Omnibus - Facing The Inevitable

Death cannot be avoided and should be talked about.

Omnibus - Adoption

Being adopted, adopting, and having a younger sibling who's adopted

Omnibus - The Wisdom of Youth

Putting others first, seeing them clearly and listening to their opinions

Omnibus - The Passage of Time

Exploding toilets, retirement homes for PE teachers, and pranks played by art teachers

Omnibus – Difficult But Important Conversations

Regretting the loss of speech and of sex, and wanting to re-pay a debt to your country

Omnibus - Lists

Lists to live by and lists to tick off

Omnibus - To Lose A Child

Honest conversations about experiencing the death of your child

Omnibus - Breaking Down Barriers

Overcoming a covert stammer, profound deafness, and prejudice against women bricklayers

Omnibus - Coming Out

Acknowledging your sexuality, your eating disorder and your relationship problems

Omnibus - Belonging

Not being defined by first impressions or early experiences

Omnibus – Negotiating Difference

Different outlooks and beliefs can bring people close or drive them apart

Omnibus - Understanding

Autism, Islam and friendship are all open to misperceptions

Omnibus - The Creative Urge

Creative writing, poetry and film-making

Omnibus – Contending with Death

How to comfort, how to remember, and how to face loss

Omnibus - Jo and Andy - Divorce

A divorced couple reflect on marriage, autism and friendship

Christmas Day Omnibus

Father Christmas, Toy Story and 6 year old twins all feature in this festive edition

Sunday Omnibus - The Power of Two

Dealing with bereavement, kidney disease and ageing - as a couple

Sunday Omnibus - A Male Perspective

Men on Euro 2016, identity and mass trespass, and Methodism

Sunday Omnibus - The Distaff Side

Conversations about what's normal, what's inherited and how much is shared in family life

Sunday Omnibus

Changing attitudes to race and death, plus facing the final decision for your pet

Sunday Omnibus - Nature's Inspiration

The beauty of nature on land, on water, and in sound

Sunday Omnibus

Moving can bring peace or regret, but friendship and support always helps

Sunday Omnibus - Passion

Bee-keeping, football and a marriage proposal

Sunday Omnibus

Dealing with crises in mental and physical health

Sunday Omnibus - A Positive Outlook

The joy of life, romance and grandchildren in old age, and of gaining an adoptive family

Sunday Omnibus - Someone To Lean On

Role models, friendship and a relationship in transition.

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about still birth, single parent families and running

Sunday Omnibus - Men and Friendship

Conversations between male friends about similarities and differences

Sunday Omnibus - Embracing Change

Going to university, retiring from work, and saying goodbye to foster children

Sunday Omnibus - What We Choose To Tell

Discovering the truth, creative education, and friendship on the Autism spectrum

Sunday Omnibus - Looking Back

National Service, attitudes to marriage, and bringing up a family as a widow in the 1960s

Omnibus - Not All Families Are The Same

Caring for disabled family members and getting by as a single, student parent

Sunday Omnibus - Shared Differences

Conversations that show we're more similar than different, despite some strange tastes

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about emails, Foot and Mouth, and Darth Vader

Sunday Omnibus

The love of family and friends and dealing with change

Sunday Omnibus - Thespian Edition

Conversations about life on the stage

Sunday Omnibus

Relationships - on-line or face-to-face, and the way eczema can disrupt a family

Sunday Omnibus - Learning to Live Somewhere New

Refugees and those who have chosen to move talk about the different lives they have made

Sunday Omnibus – Ian and Chikodi

A couple share their differences and reflect on how they have blended their lives

Sunday Omnibus - Saying Goodbye

A chance to reflect on losing someone you love and sharing the loss

Sunday Omnibus - Seeing People Differently

Perceptions of soldiers, mixed-race families, and the Roma community

Sunday Omnibus - Hay Festival

Art, camping, children and postcodes all feature in this Hay Festival special

Sunday Omnibus

Art and punctuation, communication after a stroke, and not being defined by having MS

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about wildlife, size zero, living thousands of miles apart, and shoe-making

Sunday Omnibus - Post-Partum Psychosis

The experience of post-partum psychosis and its aftermath

Sunday Omnibus

Competition at the flower and produce show, naming your baby, and life in retirement

Sunday Omnibus - Nepal Earthquake

A year after the Nepal earthquake, conversations about its impact, and about fund-raising

Omnibus - Mothers and Sons

The challenges of dyslexia, puberty and violence are more easily faced with your mum

Sunday Omnibus - Friendship

The important relationships that see us through the joys and and the pain of life

Omnibus - Still Alive

Surviving cardiac arrests and climbing accidents, with the help of others

Omnibus - Changes in Working Life

Jobs are no longer for life, and the focus of many has changed

Omnibus

Computer gaming as a means of communication, and sexual harassment on the streets

Sunday Omnibus - Jason and Kim

How employment can change perceptions of disability

Sunday Omnibus - Migration

What's it like to leave your home country to live somewhere else?

Omnibus - Dealing With Death and Suicide

Surviving the death of parents through accident or suicide, and the suicide of sons

Sunday Omnibus

Children and parents talk about being deaf or hearing, and about a photographic legacy

Omnibus - Women and Community

Conversations between women about active community involvement in retirement

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Living with Asperger's Syndrome, changes in policing and the thrill of motorbiking

Sunday Omnibus - Families

Conversations about unconventional, re-constituted and divided families.

Sunday Omnibus - The Sea and surviving university

The power of the sea and the unrelenting pressure for academic success

Sunday Omnibus - Artistic Expression

Clogs, burlesque and foreign attraction

Sunday Omnibus - CBBC

Conversations between children, recorded at the CBBC Live and Digital Festival in Hull

Sunday Omnibus - Refugees in Lebanon

Conversations recorded in Beirut between Syrian refugees trying to make a life there

Sunday Omnibus - Life after The Troubles, taking on a farm, and filling retirement with fund-raising

Life after The Troubles, taking on a farm, and filling retirement with fund-raising

Sunday Omnibus - Passing Down of Wisdom and Experience

Childhoods without television, with dyslexia, or with parents who were addicts

Sunday Omnibus - Letting Go

Overcoming the hatred of extremism, differences in belief, and the loss of a loved one

Sunday Omnibus

Rivalry in the art world, the lasting impact of childhood trauma, and transgendered life

Sunday Omnibus - Children in Need

Three excerpts from a conversation between parents of disabled children

Sunday Omnibus - Sons of Ten Years and Under

Conversations between parents and their young sons

Sunday Omnibus - Social Anxiety and Supportive Friendship

Overcoming social anxiety and the importance of listening in friendship

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about rugby, about Handsworth, and about leaving home

Sunday Omnibus - Challenges

Conversations about the impact of racism, sectarianism and drug addiction

Sunday Omnibus - Men Talking

Men aged from 21 to 92 talk about singing, peace, and being a Chelsea Pensioner

Sunday Omnibus - Having Babies...or not

Views from parents-to-be, fathers-to-be, and friends who have chosen not to be mothers

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about riding ponies and tandems, and buying Marmite in bulk for gorillas

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about learning and about slowing down, recorded in Omagh, Hay and Glasgow

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about missed opportunities in love and misapprehensions about health

Sunday Omnibus

How cycling and dancing can bring you together, plus the benefits of living where you work

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about the challenges of caring and of political beliefs

Sunday Omnibus

Being married to the farm, the music, and to a charity.

Sunday Omnibus

Getting shot, surviving addiction and what you want from school if you have autism

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about self-harm, MS and arthritis and how things can improve.

Sunday Omnibus

Protecting the family farm, aging gracefully, and being human as well as being a doctor.

Sunday Omnibus

70 years after their Liberation from Nazi Occupation, Channel Islanders reflect

Sunday Omnibus

Three couples face dilemmas about religion, dementia and work/life balance.

Sunday Omnibus

Reflections on a love of drama, of wild swimming, and of a brave and sorely missed mother

Sunday Omnibus

The changes imposed by acquired brain injury, how friends each recorded a year in and...

Sunday Omnibus

The work of a Birmingham foodbank, how Airfix helped a teenager recover from burns, by...

Sunday Omnibus - Living in Rhodesia

Three conversations revealing the reality of life in Rhodesia before 1980, when was of...

Sunday Omnibus

How autism affects children's education, and the impact of one partner's stammer or on...

17 MAY 15

Martial arts, men's apparent difficulty with monitoring their own health, and growing...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about the impact of the death of a child and about being torn between by...

Sunday Omnibus

The changes dementia imposes, the importance of colour, and a family gift for all in...

Sunday Omnibus

Coming to terms with not having grandchildren, not living where you want to, and a all...

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Mental health in the City, coping with loss in Herefordshire, and a wish-list for the...

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Conversations about CDG1A, birth partners, and whether to marry or buy a camper van,...

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Conversations about why it may not be a good idea to marry again, working in a bar, to...

29 MAR 15

Illegitimacy, successful marriage, and what to eat at funerals, conversations from and...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations from a monastery in Devon, twin sisters in Northern Ireland, and between...

Sunday Omnibus

The importance of posture, teenage romance becoming adult love, and which box to tick...

Sunday Omnibus

The death of a 15 year old, marriage and divorce, and how similar children with Down's...

Sunday Omnibus Shared Passions

Conversations between two guitar-makers, two people associated with the Little Angel...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations between mothers and daughters about losing your voice, losing your and...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations between couples who have dealt with serious head injury and with at plus...

Sunday Omnibus

Teenagers campaigning on the issue of anorexia, and fathers and daughters dealing with...

@ Sunday Omnibus - Alison and Shirley

Sisters reflect on their childhood in Sedbergh and the difficulties they've both in by...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about magic, community and fatherhood, from Devon, Wales and Leeds, by...

Sunday Omnibus - Children's Special

Gems of youthful wisdom from Suffolk, Devon, Leeds and Leicester as Fi Glover revisits...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations about being stared at because you look different, being persecuted you...

Sunday Omnibus

A moving, one-sided conversation between a mother and her stillborn son, introduced by...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations between men who have had help to get off the streets, a couple planning...

Sunday Omnibus

Moving up to secondary school, walking on and caving beneath limestone, and on the all...

Sunday Omnibus - Karen and Nicole

Three excerpts from one of the last conversations a mother dying from cancer will have...

Sunday Omnibus

The death of a parent, growing up in care, and the skilled use of wheelchairs all in...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations between people who have been helped by charities funded by Children in...

Sunday Omnibus

Conversations between women, revealing friendships forged through travel or work, or a...