The Listening Project Summer Special - from Bournemouth

Fi Glover and guests with the second of two The Listening Project Summer Specials. Today's edition was recorded in The Listening Project Booth on Bournemouth seafront and includes a lively range of The Listening Project conversations recorded in the Solent region the past year. Among Fi's guests will be BBC Radio Solent producer Julie Massiter who gathered them; Bournemouth-based businessman Mark Cribb; and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time, Lizzy Yarnold.

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 BBC 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: Mohini Patel