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Fi Glover hears a grandmother and her grandson reflect on their special relationship, after she took on his care when he was 10 months old, because of his mother's heroin habit.

Fi Glover hears a grandmother and her grandson reflect on their special relationship, after she took on his care when he was 10 months old, because of his mother's heroin habit. Recorded when the mobile Booth was in Glasgow, this is another conversation in the series that proves 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 大象传媒 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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Thu 15 Oct 2015 23:55

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