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Oby and Rebekah: Life After The Truth

Fi Glover presents the series capturing the nation in conversation. Celebrating the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Big Weekend, the focus is on Hackney: Oby and Rebekah reflect on life after The Truth.

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation: today, in celebration of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 1's Big Weekend we hear from Hackney residents Oby and Rebekah. Now in their 20s, both young women were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses. Now they discuss what that meant, and how their lives have panned out after their exposure to The Truth.

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

Producer: Marya Burgess.

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Fri 22 Jun 2012 16:55

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