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Taking the Biscuit: Jim and John

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation. Jim and John, who used to work at the big biscuit factory in Reading, sample their memories.

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation: today memories of working at Huntley and Palmer's biscuit factory in Reading from Jim and John. More from the Listening Project at 4.55pm this afternoon.

The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that aims to offer a sort of 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 麻豆官网首页入口 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. Many of the long conversations are being archived by the British Library which they will use 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 Simon Elmes.

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Fri 27 Apr 2012 12:52

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