Capturing the nation in conversation, in partnership with the British Library.
Radio 4,·1152 episodes
A conversation during the first stages of labour, only hours before their baby was born
02 Oct 2015,·5 mins
Two friends who are new fathers-to-be reflect on forthcoming life changing events.
30 Sep 2015,·5 mins
Horses can sometimes be easier to manage than people.
25 Sep 2015,·5 mins
How the 'pilot' can be the eyes for the 'stoker' in a successful tandem team for the blind
Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two zoo workers about their working day.
23 Sep 2015,·5 mins
A mother and daughter come to terms with their different approach to learning
18 Sep 2015,·5 mins
Fi Glover talks to a couple who share the experience of a Kenyan childhood.
A student and his history teacher discuss how her lessons have liberated him
16 Sep 2015,·5 mins
Fi Glover and guests are in Cumbria to explore landscape and conversations in extremis.
14 Sep 2015,·28 mins
Sometimes the thing that brought you together loses its appeal - at least for one of you.
21 Aug 2015,·5 mins
Conversations about missed opportunities in love and misapprehensions about health.
Young dancers find that it's their differences that makes their partnership work.
19 Aug 2015,·5 mins
Friends in their 60s believe that younger men today would make better partners.
14 Aug 2015,·5 mins
Love and marriage does not always turn out quite as expected.
It can be hard to be considered a malingerer just because your disability is nt obvious.
12 Aug 2015,·5 mins
Friends admit that being a carer has taken its toll but has made them grow as people.
07 Aug 2015,·5 mins
Friends who both found themselves carers for their husbands share the profound challenges.
A mother's feminism profoundly affected her son's politics, even if it doesn't always show
05 Aug 2015,·5 mins
Fi Glover and guests explore lyricism and storytelling in Derry/Londonderry.
03 Aug 2015,·30 mins
How running a charity keeps two retired teachers young.
31 Jul 2015,·5 mins
A townie married a farmer, not realising a herd of Jerseys would be part of the deal
Success still evades these two musicians, but there’s nothing else they’d dream of doing.
29 Jul 2015,·5 mins
How drug addiction nearly put paid to a happy partnership.
24 Jul 2015,·5 mins
A boy with autism and his mother design the school that would be ideal for him.
Two artists, one of whom was in the army... but he is not the one who got shot.
22 Jul 2015,·5 mins
When drugs made her mother more ill, a daughter looked for arthritis help on the internet.
17 Jul 2015,·5 mins
How stress and anxiety at school began a cycle of self-harm.
Sometimes when it seems there's no hope, things can get better.
15 Jul 2015,·5 mins
The human side of the doctor's dilemma confronted by a doctor and her husband
10 Jul 2015,·5 mins
A farmer and his son discuss the pull of the land.
