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Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today
The Listening Project
Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today
The Listening Project
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Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today
The Listening Project
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The Listening Project
The Listening Project
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.
The Listening Project
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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
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Separation and Trauma
Sunday Edition: John and William - The way the cookie crumbles
Sunday Edition: Becky and Bill - Try being me for a day
Sunday Edition: Neil and Daisy - It's your world now
Sunday Edition: Mark and Darren - I Didn’t Even Know Your Name Was Darren”
Eva and Gerry - Everyone Dines with the Devil
Stuff that life can throw at us
Dealing with Mental Illness
Tattooing, voice communication and the dark side of comedy
The art of helping people
In the friendship zone
Beginnings and belonging
The Listening Project Christmas Special
Family, Friendship and Fitting in
Approaching Adulthood
All about Relationships
From This World and Beyond
All About Reliance
Children in Need
Workplace Friendships, Shared Experiences
Children, Parents and Grandparents
Community, Friendship and Family
Marathon running, Rubik cubing and single-parenting
The Joy of Belonging
Defined by Place
All About Global Citizenship
Cancer, Cross-Dressing and Creative Minds
Boating, Caring and Grandparenting
If You've Got it, Flaunt It
Things That Make Relationships Work
Body Dysmorphia, Men's Groups and Communicating with the Deaf
Education, Friendship and Art in Action
Music, New Technology and Times Past
Nursing, Swimming and Running
Women of a Certain Age
Home is Where the Heart is
SUN 16 June 2019 Love and Family
The Bond Between Teacher and Pupil
SUN 2 June 2019 Friendship, Cultural Differences and Support
Friendship, Motherhood and Politics
19 May 2019 Art, Sexuality and Faith
The Tombola of Life
Working in the Arts, Working with Dogs and Young Dads and Mental Health
Challenges of Parenthood
Wheelchairs, Eyesight and being HIV Positive
Language and Storytelling
Boxing, Running and Nursing
Families - From a Male Perspective
Bullying, Gender and Identity
Stepping Out of the Box
Suddenly Everything Changes
Love, Death and ADHD
Cold Seas and Crossing the Street
Glam Rock and Gooseberries
Love Lost and Found
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Capturing the nation in conversation to build a unique picture of our lives today.
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The Positive Power of Change
Conversations about the power of the spoken and written word
Reflections on the death of parents and on getting older.
Whether it's being Vietnamese, a baptised Sikh, or an unwavering feminist
On cricket, on divorce, and on starting a curry restaurant
The experience of having dyslexia or a cleft palate, or being unable to breast feed.
The impact of sudden death or suicide on those left behind.
As friends, as grandparents, or as ghosts in the mirror
Through learning, belly-dancing, or donating sperm
Whether it's a liver transplant, a wheelchair, or a son with unusual interests
Whether it's a mentor or a long-standing friend, we all need somebody
Whether to a long, slow decline, or to a shockingly sudden death
Challenging stereotypes and standing tall
Accepting what you can't change later in life, and getting on with what you can change.
Three brothers with special needs and a huge capacity for joy and enthusiasm
Needles may hurt, but treatment is still a lot less painful than it was before the NHS
The stresses and the rewards of a career in the NHS
In poetry, in jazz, or in the lasting impact of children - however young - on parents
They risk their lives for those in peril at sea
The expansiveness of art
Surviving marriage breakdown and a bombing
Either during or after birth, or at primary school
Finding the person who helps you realise your potential
Adopting a child, letting go of religion and moving on after bankruptcy
Friends and family supporting those with health issues
How you speak, how you look, and what you're called all affect how you are perceived
The ultimate destination is death, but everyone travels a different journey
An exploration of the relationship at different stages of life
The changes over time in having a baby out of wedlock
It can be football, or music, or simply providing support and understanding
Being a parent is a rollercoaster ride of love, acceptance, and responsibility
Taking control of your life, your death, and the infinite blue of the ocean
Stammering, death and Motor Neurone Disease are all shared in this poignant selection
Men who have used their creativity to reflect their experience of their homeland
Love, age and periods
Where you feel welcome and understood
Fire-fighter or a musician, aquarist or factory worker
Three exceptionally honest and revealing conversations
Three conversations about the things that give life meaning
Stained glass, friends who listen, late-in-life-love, and mother-daughter closeness
Recovery from PTSD, Addiction, and Everyday Life
Life experience can direct our career path
Identity is more than how you look or sound, or where you live
Whether it's ballet or contemporary dance, the joy of movement can boost self-confidence.
Life as a young carer or with terminal cancer or just facing challenges when growing up
Down's Syndrome, Type 1 Diabetes and Learning Disabilities don't need to be life-limiting
Trials of management, joys of foraging, rewards of longterm friendship, with Fi Glover.
Redheads, football, Eastern Europe, siblings with Down's. Child's eye view with Fi Glover
You can rely on your women friends - new or long-standing. Fi Glover presents.
Abuse by family or those meant to care for a child is never forgotten. Fi Glover presents
Sharing the stage, a faith or the experience of being an incomer
Planning funerals and dealing with marriage where one partner falls ill
Lives affected by political or religious belief or social pressure
Life-changing accidents, kidney donation and life as a junior doctor
Starting at uni, dealing with the empty nest, and long distance love
Conversations about living with disability - your own or your child's or your parent's
Hair, film and identity can all bring us together
Memories of unencumbered travel, riotous good works and Londonderry at the weekend.
Whether it's human rights or veganism that puts it there, or the need to avoid gluten
Different beliefs and different faiths in conversation
The influence of musical events on our lives
Meeting the requirements of the adult world can be hard work
Supportive relationships forged in the swimming pool, the office, and in childhood.
Losing your sense of smell, learning to love, and loving to travel on the bus.
The experience of teaching, past and present.
Conversations about the choices involved in choosing our career paths
Honest conversations about relationships, pets, football and gardening
Death cannot be avoided and should be talked about.
Being adopted, adopting, and having a younger sibling who's adopted
Putting others first, seeing them clearly and listening to their opinions
Exploding toilets, retirement homes for PE teachers, and pranks played by art teachers
Regretting the loss of speech and of sex, and wanting to re-pay a debt to your country
Lists to live by and lists to tick off
Honest conversations about experiencing the death of your child
Overcoming a covert stammer, profound deafness, and prejudice against women bricklayers
Acknowledging your sexuality, your eating disorder and your relationship problems
Not being defined by first impressions or early experiences
Different outlooks and beliefs can bring people close or drive them apart
Autism, Islam and friendship are all open to misperceptions
Creative writing, poetry and film-making
How to comfort, how to remember, and how to face loss
A divorced couple reflect on marriage, autism and friendship
Father Christmas, Toy Story and 6 year old twins all feature in this festive edition
Dealing with bereavement, kidney disease and ageing - as a couple
Men on Euro 2016, identity and mass trespass, and Methodism
Conversations about what's normal, what's inherited and how much is shared in family life
Changing attitudes to race and death, plus facing the final decision for your pet
The beauty of nature on land, on water, and in sound
Moving can bring peace or regret, but friendship and support always helps
Bee-keeping, football and a marriage proposal
Dealing with crises in mental and physical health
The joy of life, romance and grandchildren in old age, and of gaining an adoptive family
Role models, friendship and a relationship in transition.
Conversations about still birth, single parent families and running
Conversations between male friends about similarities and differences
Going to university, retiring from work, and saying goodbye to foster children
Discovering the truth, creative education, and friendship on the Autism spectrum
National Service, attitudes to marriage, and bringing up a family as a widow in the 1960s
Caring for disabled family members and getting by as a single, student parent
Conversations that show we're more similar than different, despite some strange tastes
Conversations about emails, Foot and Mouth, and Darth Vader
The love of family and friends and dealing with change
Conversations about life on the stage
Relationships - on-line or face-to-face, and the way eczema can disrupt a family
Refugees and those who have chosen to move talk about the different lives they have made
A couple share their differences and reflect on how they have blended their lives
A chance to reflect on losing someone you love and sharing the loss
Perceptions of soldiers, mixed-race families, and the Roma community
Art, camping, children and postcodes all feature in this Hay Festival special
Art and punctuation, communication after a stroke, and not being defined by having MS
Conversations about wildlife, size zero, living thousands of miles apart, and shoe-making
The experience of post-partum psychosis and its aftermath
Competition at the flower and produce show, naming your baby, and life in retirement
A year after the Nepal earthquake, conversations about its impact, and about fund-raising
The challenges of dyslexia, puberty and violence are more easily faced with your mum
The important relationships that see us through the joys and and the pain of life
Surviving cardiac arrests and climbing accidents, with the help of others
Jobs are no longer for life, and the focus of many has changed
Computer gaming as a means of communication, and sexual harassment on the streets
How employment can change perceptions of disability
What's it like to leave your home country to live somewhere else?
Surviving the death of parents through accident or suicide, and the suicide of sons
Children and parents talk about being deaf or hearing, and about a photographic legacy
Conversations between women about active community involvement in retirement
Living with Asperger's Syndrome, changes in policing and the thrill of motorbiking
Conversations about unconventional, re-constituted and divided families.
The power of the sea and the unrelenting pressure for academic success
Clogs, burlesque and foreign attraction
Conversations between children, recorded at the CBBC Live and Digital Festival in Hull
Conversations recorded in Beirut between Syrian refugees trying to make a life there
Life after The Troubles, taking on a farm, and filling retirement with fund-raising
Childhoods without television, with dyslexia, or with parents who were addicts
Overcoming the hatred of extremism, differences in belief, and the loss of a loved one
Rivalry in the art world, the lasting impact of childhood trauma, and transgendered life
Three excerpts from a conversation between parents of disabled children
Conversations between parents and their young sons
Overcoming social anxiety and the importance of listening in friendship
Conversations about rugby, about Handsworth, and about leaving home
Conversations about the impact of racism, sectarianism and drug addiction
Men aged from 21 to 92 talk about singing, peace, and being a Chelsea Pensioner
Views from parents-to-be, fathers-to-be, and friends who have chosen not to be mothers
Conversations about riding ponies and tandems, and buying Marmite in bulk for gorillas
Conversations about learning and about slowing down, recorded in Omagh, Hay and Glasgow
Conversations about missed opportunities in love and misapprehensions about health
How cycling and dancing can bring you together, plus the benefits of living where you work
Conversations about the challenges of caring and of political beliefs
Being married to the farm, the music, and to a charity.
Getting shot, surviving addiction and what you want from school if you have autism
Conversations about self-harm, MS and arthritis and how things can improve.
Protecting the family farm, aging gracefully, and being human as well as being a doctor.
70 years after their Liberation from Nazi Occupation, Channel Islanders reflect
Three couples face dilemmas about religion, dementia and work/life balance.
Reflections on a love of drama, of wild swimming, and of a brave and sorely missed mother
The changes imposed by acquired brain injury, how friends each recorded a year in and...
The work of a Birmingham foodbank, how Airfix helped a teenager recover from burns, by...
Three conversations revealing the reality of life in Rhodesia before 1980, when was of...
How autism affects children's education, and the impact of one partner's stammer or on...
Martial arts, men's apparent difficulty with monitoring their own health, and growing...
Conversations about the impact of the death of a child and about being torn between by...
The changes dementia imposes, the importance of colour, and a family gift for all in...
Coming to terms with not having grandchildren, not living where you want to, and a all...
Mental health in the City, coping with loss in Herefordshire, and a wish-list for the...
Conversations about CDG1A, birth partners, and whether to marry or buy a camper van,...
Conversations about why it may not be a good idea to marry again, working in a bar, to...
Illegitimacy, successful marriage, and what to eat at funerals, conversations from and...
Conversations from a monastery in Devon, twin sisters in Northern Ireland, and between...
The importance of posture, teenage romance becoming adult love, and which box to tick...
The death of a 15 year old, marriage and divorce, and how similar children with Down's...
Conversations between two guitar-makers, two people associated with the Little Angel...
Conversations between mothers and daughters about losing your voice, losing your and...
Conversations between couples who have dealt with serious head injury and with at plus...
Teenagers campaigning on the issue of anorexia, and fathers and daughters dealing with...
Sisters reflect on their childhood in Sedbergh and the difficulties they've both in by...
Conversations about magic, community and fatherhood, from Devon, Wales and Leeds, by...
Gems of youthful wisdom from Suffolk, Devon, Leeds and Leicester as Fi Glover revisits...
Conversations about being stared at because you look different, being persecuted you...
A moving, one-sided conversation between a mother and her stillborn son, introduced by...
Conversations between men who have had help to get off the streets, a couple planning...
Moving up to secondary school, walking on and caving beneath limestone, and on the all...
Three excerpts from one of the last conversations a mother dying from cancer will have...
The death of a parent, growing up in care, and the skilled use of wheelchairs all in...
Conversations between people who have been helped by charities funded by Children in...
Conversations between women, revealing friendships forged through travel or work, or a...
A mother and son from Carlisle talk about whose right it was to reveal he was gay, and...
Conversations about adoption by civil partners, getting around the Underground with a...
Three snippets from a conversation between friends who became close when Rachel's died...
The challenges of adoptiion, remembering grandad through his recipes, and facing all...
Three conversations between work colleagues, old friends, and female members of a by...
Living with blindness, with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and with Parkinson's all feature in...
Life as an immigrant, adoptiing a child, and surviving sexual abuse,all feature in and...
Conversations between UKIP councillors, members of the Spinners, Weavers and Dyers and...
The impact of the National Front in the 1980s, coming to terms with infertility, and...
A conversation from Cumbria between a mother and daughter about coping with the death...
Mothers who have lost sons, a mother-in-law and her son's civil partner, and a couple...
Conversations about choices to be made around health, education and career, between an...
For 40 years Iby kept it secret that she’d been held in Auschwitz – she didn’t...
Conversations between couples who together find the strength to make a fresh start, in...
Losing your sight but holding on to your appearance, the power of scouting to break we...
Life after anorexia, proposals over satellite phone and posing nude from Edinburgh, in...
Marriage and disability, children and disability and the importance of grandmothers in...
A gay vicar and his partner, two footballers, and a father and son who work together...
Age differences in marriage, the learning curve in adoption, and collaboration in and...
Divorce, surviving road traffic accidents and comas, and multi-tasking as a gifted all...
Coming out as gay after marriage and children, life as a dwarf and life with a in the...
A fitness instructor with MS, two men who haven't been held back by their learning and...
Clean breaks from drugs, making friends with the person who talked you out of suicide,...
The silence around childhood sexual abuse, love and marriage late in life, and friends...
A widow's loneliness, a long-lasting theatrical romance, and how not to be an absent...
May Queens, letter writing, and deleting Facebook on your phone all feature in from by...
Conversations about life with unstable epilepsy, work with search and rescue dogs, and...
Muslim attitudes to the arts, the experience of wartime evacuation, and life with Type...
Living with wolves, having gastric surgery, and finding inspiration in David Hockney's...
Second chances, final choices and life-changing events all feature in conversations by...
Transgender life, pantomime camels, parents who were in holy orders, and running away...
Siblings, ambition, stolen chocolate and imaginary gaffer tape all feature in these by...
Terminal cancer, acne, friendship and dreadlocks all feature in the four conversations...
Conversations about letting wolves care for your child or bringing him up as a are by...
Conversations between people who work at The Connection and those who have found and...
Young carers and a couple dealing with alcoholism and the path to recovery feature in...
Conversations ranging from managing a NHS Trust to being a football hooligan, via in a...
Couples talk about pregnancy, weight loss, the anxieties of being an army wife, and a...
Conversations between mothers and daughters, whose shared experiences range from death...
A 90 year old and her eldest daughter talk about children, marriage, holidays and and...
Conversations between grandparents, a grandchild, and a mother and daughter;the of and...
Books, hugs, flowers and loss all feature in four conversations introduced by Fi in of...
At the British Library, Fi Glover discovers how Listening Project conversations are as...
Conversations recorded at the Edinburgh Festival between people inspired by the make...
Death and remembrance, soul midwives to ease the final journey, and contact with the...
Life as a transgender woman and beating leukaemia - Fi Glover surprises listeners with...
Love, marriage and education feature in conversations uploaded by listeners themselves...
The miners' strike,the Suffolk flood of 1953, how mums are never satisfied, and the a...
Conversations from StoryCorps, the American inspiration for The Listening Project, in...
Life with locked-in syndrome, with terminal cancer, without your grandchild, and with...
From the appeal of the Morris Minor to an admission of self-harm, and whether to take...
Eleven and twelve year olds recorded conversations about their lives and those of and...
The perils facing fishermen, Catholicism, ensuring disabled children are cared for and...
Community,changesin Northern Ireland, and memories of the glamorous 1950s are all by...
Swansea City, coming out, delivering your own grandchildren, and second time around in...
Teenage sexuality, stepmothers and organ donation are all covered in the conversations...
Listeners' requests presented by Fi Glover in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series...
Babies, Christmas and loved ones remembered: all in the conversations presented by Fi...
Marriage, spiders, frogs, birds, leaving home for university and coming back again: of...
After Lyn's prison sentence for drink-driving she and her civil partner Mary their Fi...
Homelessness on the streets of London: one of the conversations introduced by Fi on 4...
Fi Glover hears what Professor Dorothy Sheridan of the Mass Observation Archive thinks...
Conversations between people helped by Children in Need-funded charities, ranging from...
Fi Glover with conversations about Nepal, love, death - and spaghetti bolognese for...
Conversations between those who have suffered from psychosis and depression, and those...
Fi Glover features men's conversations exclusively in this Edition and proves that, be...
Surprising conversations about dead pets, plastic surgery, retirement, and the impact...
Two is stronger than one when it comes to meeting life's challenges. Couples talk about...
A marriage proposal and conversations about sex, Romany mourning traditions and the as...
Encounters from Scotland, Cheshire and a British Library view of the Project.
Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series capturing the nation in...
Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series capturing the nation in meet...
Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series capturing the nation in the...
Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series capturing the nation in we...
Fi Glover introduces Joan and Ray from Merseyside, who only recently discovered they a...
Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series capturing the nation in from...
Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series capturing the nation in in...
In today's programme, we meet Ciaron and Brendan, Irish brothers whose fraternal bond...
Barbara talks to her best friend Becky about her compulsive disorder and how it's her...
Mike talks to his adoptive son about how he rescued him as a baby from South Vietnam;...
Beryl is a twice married grandmother who talks with her grandson about love, loss and...
Chick is a former miner from Pontefract in Yorkshire. He discusses his life in a with...
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