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Zoe and Kate: Who's Mum Now?

Fi Glover hears from mother and daughter Kay and Zoe about what it's like when the tables are turned, as mum gets older and becomes the one who needs looking after.

Fi Glover hears from mother and daughter, Kay and Zoe from Manchester, about what it's like when the tables are turned as mum gets older and becomes the one who needs looking after, on Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.

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 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 and used 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 23 Nov 2012 12:52

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  • Fri 23 Nov 2012 12:52

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