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Sunday Edition - The Listening Project in Schools

Fi Glover with conversations recorded by school children as part of the Listening Project Schools Pilot. They talk about their lives and their parents, friends and grandparents.

Fi Glover with four conversations recorded by eleven and twelve year olds in this week's Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The conversations, about the children's lives and those of their parents, friends and grandparents, were recorded as part of The Listening Project Schools Pilot funded by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Learning; over a hundred children in four schools in the north west took part.

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. 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 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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Sun 5 May 2013 14:45

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  • Sun 5 May 2013 14:45

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