Phyliss and Freda - Trains and Tears
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between WWII evacuees, reflecting on the pain of their childhood experience and wondering how their mothers could have chosen to send them away.
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between WW2 evacuees, reflecting on the pain of their childhood experience and wondering how their mothers could have chosen to send them away, proving once more 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 麻豆社 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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