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Fi Glover presents a new and extended weekly edition of the programme with voices past and present on the shared experience of being in lockdown.

In this week's programme, we hear from Ron and Wendy from Scarborough, both in their 70s, who had never met before, talking about what they would like the future to look like after restrictions are lifted; an aunt and nephew, both spending lockdown alone and separately, compare notes on their average day and the call of the sea; vicars Clare and Val on the joys of conducting online services; and strangers Jane and Tracy, passionate about working in mental health and supporting vulnerable children respectively, on the backwash of difficult childhoods.

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