Street Stories

Is a film documentary project tracking socio political issues and perceptions around race, gender and belonging, through the individual recollections of over 400 people who live or work on three arterial roads in Cape Town.

This project produced 6 documentaries, a book and an extensive photographic exhibition.

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On the thirtieth anniversary of the Andean Oral History Workshop (THOA), a pioneer in studies of the oral memory of the Indian entity, researchers revalued the academic activities of the institution. The event was attended by scholars in sociology as Esteban Ticona, Simon Yampara and archived director of La Paz, Mary Money, among others.

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This week the BBC are uploading the first 355 Listening Project conversations to the British Library Sounds website at http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/The-Listening-Project. It’s an exciting moment because it means that for the first time these recordings will be available in their entirety for anyone to listen to from anywhere in the world.

The Listening Project is a collaborative project between the BBC and the British Library, modelled on the US StoryCorps project. Producers from regional and national BBC radio stations have, since the beginning of 2012, been recording people talking to each other about a topic of their choice, often something that they have been wanting to discuss but never found the time to sit down and really talk about. The conversations are around 40 minutes long and are usually between people who are members of the same family, friends or have a romantic or professional relationship. Short clips have been broadcast locally and nationally, and the full conversations are then permanently archived in the British Library.