Else and Steven - Growing Up in Lederhosen
Fi Glover with a conversation between a son planning a book about growing up in England and his German mother who wrote about her own traumatic childhood in WW2. From Oct 2013.
Fi Glover introduces a mother who wrote a book about her traumatic WW2 childhood in Germany and her son, who is planning his own book about growing up in England with a German mother, in the 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. 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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- Fri 11 Oct 2013 12:52Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 8 Apr 2018 10:10Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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Capturing the nation in conversation, in partnership with the British Library.