BBC Learning is coming to the Edinburgh Festival 2013, with The Listening Project, an ambitious new partnership between BBC Radio 4, BBC local and national radio stations and the British Library. The Project aims to capture the nation in conversation and is asking people to share an intimate conversation with a close friend or relative, to help to build a unique picture of our lives today. Some of these conversations will be broadcast across BBC radio and archived by the British Library, preserving them for future generations.
On Monday 19th August, groups of all ages will be invited to attend a Q & A with Tony Phillips who is Editor of the Listening Project and Fi Glover who is the presenter of the Radio 4 show. On Friday 23rd August, groups from the Monday session will be invited back to have a chance to record their stories with staff from BBC Radio 4/Radio Scotland. The Q & A will take place at the BBC Festival Pink tent and the recording will be done in a Radio Studio not far from the Festival site. There will be provision for thirty two people to have a chance to record their story on 23rd August.
Spaces on these workshops and shows are in high demand, so if you would like to register interest contact Aleister Mayer on aleister.mayer@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vyngt.
Hello,
A colleague and I are setting up conversation groups in Edinburgh from the autumn, where people can explore and create their own stories of change and transition. One of our inspirations was your listening project. We would love to come along and participate in your workshop. We are both now coaches and have first hand experience of life changing health conditions, so understand the importance of both listening and of being heard from personal and professional perspectives.
Thank you, Gwen
Hi Gwen
These workshops are being run by BBC Learning and not the Fife Creative Learning Network. If you contact the email in the blog post above they will be able to give you more information.
Thanks, Olivia