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Fi Glover trawls the archives to include Radio Ballads, Down Your Way and The Listening Project. With Tanya Shadrick. From 2017.
Fi Glover trawls the archives for intimate stories of the everyday, tracing how curated wartime spirit developed into today's unmediated snapshots of life.
Assisting Fi in her quest is writer and lido supporter, Tanya Shadrick.
From Olive Shapley's Mass Observation-inspired recordings in the 1930s and 40s, via Radio Ballads and Down Your Way, they arrive at the verbatim examples of 20th Century Vox and The Listening Project, charting the development from patronised 'ordinary folk' to the autonomy of contemporary voices.
Producer: Marya Burgess
Made for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in November 2017.
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Capturing the nation in conversation in partnership with the British Library.
Broadcasts
- Sat 25 Nov 2017 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 25 Nov 2017 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 3 Aug 2019 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 3 Aug 2019 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 17 Oct 2020 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 17 Oct 2020 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 9 Apr 2022 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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