Join the British Library and the BBC to reflect on the first three years of the Listening Project

The project creates an audio archive of conversations recorded by the BBC in which people are invited to share an intimate conversation with a close friend or relative. These one-to-one conversations, lasting up to an hour and taking a topic of the speakers' choice, collectively form a picture of our lives and relationships today. The conversations cover a huge range of life experiences told from the perspective of the people who have lived them, from birth to death and everything in between. The collection currently consists of 650 conversations made by contributors from 7 to 101 years old, recorded in all four corners of the UK and includes people who have moved here from across the globe.

The event includes a panel discussion chaired by Fi Glover in which BBC producers reflect on the process of making the recordings and the impact of broadcasting excerpts, Listening Project participants discuss their experience of contributing to the collection and library curators and researchers explore the potential for using the online Listening Project archive for a variety of research purposes as it continues to grow. 

In partnership with the BBC.

Listening Project Workshop Programme (PDF)

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