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Jo and Jimmy – Our New Family

Jo and her partner were not much more than a decade older than Jimmy when they adopted him at 18. It's been an adventure for them all.

Jo and her partner were not much more than a decade older than Jimmy when they adopted him at 18. It's been an adventure for them all, proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen.

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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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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5 minutes

Last on

Sun 24 Nov 2019 21:10

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  • Fri 20 Jun 2014 16:55
  • Sun 24 Nov 2019 10:10
  • Sun 24 Nov 2019 21:10

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Listening project conversations brought to life by talented young animators.

Fi Glover and Jane Garvey

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

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Broadcast across Radio 4 and on local radio stations across the UK and Northern Ireland.

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