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Sunday Edition at the British Library

Fi Glover discovers how Listening Project conversations are archived at the British Library, as the library launches its online archive of the unedited recordings.

Fi Glover meets the people who archive Listening Project conversations at the British Library to find out how they can be accessed by the public; for those for whom the edited versions broadcast on Radio 4 are not enough, they'll now be able to listen to the unedited recordings online at http://sounds.bl.uk
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 91热爆 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 6 Oct 2013 14:45

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