{"id":243,"date":"2012-10-24T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T11:07:06","slug":"the-listening-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"The Listening Project – BBC Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four conversations that I co-edited for the BBC Radio 4 series The Listening Project<\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0now available to listen to online.<\/p>\n

The first, ‘Reluctant Retirement’<\/a>, which was also broadcast on the Radio 4 programme, is an intimate conversation between sisters Lynn and Anna about Lynn’s recent, difficult decision to retire from her job as a primary school deputy head. It was recorded and submitted by my comrade in radio freelance-land (and Lynn’s daughter) Kirsty McQuire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second, ‘Life Changing Decision’<\/a>, is a beautiful, emotional conversation between Janette and her daughter Helen, about the events that led to Helen entirely losing her hearing at the age of 19 months.<\/p>\n

The third, ‘Wise Women’<\/a>, is a chat between partners Sylvia and Alison and their friend Jenny, who is also a lesbian, about their thirty-year battle to have their sexuality accepted.<\/p>\n

And in the fourth, ‘Unexpected Gift’<\/a>, husband and wife Alan and Anne\u00a0recall how a WWII bomb blast left Anne an unexpected gift and just how different their experiences as evacuees were.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to record a conversation and be part of The Listening Project, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four conversations that I co-edited for the BBC Radio 4 series The Listening Project\u00a0are\u00a0now available to listen to online. The first, ‘Reluctant Retirement’, which was also broadcast on the Radio 4 programme, is an intimate conversation between sisters Lynn and Anna about Lynn’s recent, difficult decision to retire from her job as a primary school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,14],"tags":[87,40,99,97,101,102,78,100,98,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}