The Listening Project - Getting Back to Business

Fi Glover presents friends, relatives and strangers in conversation.

This week: Nikki, whose beauty salon has just reopened and Andrew, whose soft play centre is ready and waiting, discuss the ups and downs of owning a business during Covid; A Level student and environmental campaigner Roxy and mining graduate Oli consider whether extracting the earth's resources can ever be 'green'; Maureen and Dickie share their respective memories of the Sheffield and Belfast Blitz; and choir leaders Janine and Emma compare their different approaches to their craft.

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. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moments 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 this decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Ellie Bury

Published on Sunday, 25th April 2021.

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