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Jo and Hayley - Accepting Fate

A mother of two sons with the rare genetic disorder CDG1a, who has set up a charity to help parents like herself, discusses life with a friend who works for the charity.

Fi Glover introduces a mother of two sons with a rare genetic disorder, CDG1a, who has set up a charity she founded to help parents like herself, discussing life with a friend who works for the charity.

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 91Èȱ¬ 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 learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess.

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5 minutes

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  • Fri 10 Apr 2015 16:56

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Fi Glover and Jane Garvey roam the fields of broadcasting talking to interesting people.

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