Talking Chances

Talking Chances is a forty-minute audio journey that reflects the thoughts and experiences of former employees and associates of Chances Glass Factory. Over a period of six months I recorded over 14 hours of conversation with sixteen people, discussing all aspect of life at Chances. Short extracts were taken from these conversations and combined together to form this audio piece.

Talking Chances creates a multi-dimensional picture of what Chances Glass meant to many different people. It is both a highly personal interpretation and a vibrant historic record of a unique period of British manufacturing, a period that is readily brought alive through the words of these diverse participants.

to listen to the project please click on the link below:

Talking Chances: 40 minutes stereo: MP3 Format

Produced as part of the Taking Chances project developed by the community arts organisation Multistory and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

Many thanks to the participants who made this project possible:

Geoff Bennett, Cyril and Eddie Caine, Edna Carr, Toby Chance, Dennis Darby, Jean Durrant, Ray Drury, Anne Hardy, Esmee Amphlett, Mac Prinn, Alan and Joyce Taylor, Gary and Dorothy Watton, Maud Morris.

Banner image- Fresnal Lighthouse Lens produced by Chances. Image reproduced by kind courtesy of Zoe Gladstone.