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Olympic Memories: Mark and Sophie

From Cheshire. Mark tells his daughter Sophie about taking part in the Moscow and LA Olympic Games.

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation: today, former Olympic hurdler Mark remembers what it was like to take part in the 1980 Games in Moscow, and again, four years later, in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. His conversation with daughter, Sophie, was recorded by Radio Stoke.

The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that aims to offer 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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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. Many of the long conversations are being archived by the British Library which they will use to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

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Fri 15 Jun 2012 16:55

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