Breaking Barriers
Fi Glover presents four chats about space exploration, the ups and downs of having tattoos, facing prejudice and the joys of motorbikes with sidecars.
Fi Glover presents four conversations between strangers.
This week: two women, Jo and Maggie, on their love of space and space exploration and making a career out of it; Paul and Beth talk tattoos and how he wants even more and she wants rid of hers; Marian who is Irish and Amena who is British Muslim, share their painful stories about the effects of prejudice on their lives; and Dee and Dave wax lyrical about motorbikes with sidecars and life on the road.
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. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation lasts up to an hour and is then edited to extract the key moments 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 this decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Mohini Patel
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- Sun 17 Oct 2021 13:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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The Listening Project
Capturing the nation in conversation, in partnership with the British Library.