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Julie and Lois – Our Brains Work in Different Ways

Fi Glover introduces a mother and daughter who share a difficulty with learning; it’s not that they can't, but that they do it in a way that's different.

Fi Glover introduces a mother and daughter who share a difficulty with learning; it’s not that they can’t, but that they do it in a way that's different. Recorded in the Booth at the Hay Festival, it's another conversation in the series that proves 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 ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 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 learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Marya Burgess

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Sun 1 Mar 2020 21:10

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  • Fri 18 Sep 2015 23:55
  • Sun 1 Mar 2020 10:10
  • Sun 1 Mar 2020 21:10

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