The BBC Listening Project On Tour has arrived in Northern Ireland.
The project, a collaboration between BBC Radio 4 and the British Library in association with BBC Radio Ulster / BBC Radio Foyle, brings a state-of-the-art mobile recording booth to Northern Ireland, part of a UK-wide tour.
The award-winning BBC Radio 4 Listening Project has invited My Way Access’ Dermot Devlin to speak on the programme about issues regarding disabled access across the country and how problems can impact on a person who has a disability. The BBC have asked Dermot to cover this, as it’s something which is close to his heart, an issue that is important to him and he is passionate about.
Dermot will also be covering the campaign to get Vimizim for Morquio. However, due to the BBC’s right-to-reply policy, he will not be able to go into this in great details.
The booth will be outside Omagh Library and will be there from 25th to 28th July.
The conversations will be selected for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Ulster / BBC Radio Foyle, and all conversations are stored in the British Library in London, so in hundreds of years our ancestors will be able to listen to the conversations.
The Listening Project NI is on BBC Radio Ulster / BBC Radio Foyle, Monday to Friday at 4.55pm & 11.50pm.
BBC Radio Ulster presenter Kerry McLean paid a visit to the Booth when it arrived in Belfast. She said: “This is an amazing project and a great opportunity for local people to talk about things which really matter to them. It is a fantastic chance to record a living, breathing piece of oral history and also to hear some of the conversations previously recorded by Conor at the end of my show each day. So why not get in touch with the team and come on down to the booth?”
The Listening Project tour was launched in association with BBC Learning.