Mary and Pearl - Sisters and Survival
Fi Glover introduces two sisters whose painful secret of childhood sexual abuse has remained unspoken for 30 years, until The Listening Project inspired them to face the truth.
Fi Glover introduces two sisters whose painful secret of childhood sexual abuse has remained unspoken for thirty years, until The Listening Project inspired them to face the truth.
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 16 May 2014 16:55Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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