Listener

Listener may refer to:

  • A prisoner in a UK jail, specially trained by Samaritans to provide confidential emotional support to other prisoners
In media, arts, and entertainment
  • The Listener (magazine), a defunct British magazine, published for most of its history by the BBC
  • New Zealand Listener, a New Zealand magazine
  • Listener (band), a spoken word project from Siloam Springs, Arkansas
  • The Listener (TV series), a Canadian TV series about a telepathic EMT
  • Ashema the Listener, a character in Marvel Comics
In computing
  • An object in a computer program called an event listener; see Observer pattern

Famous quotes containing the word listener:

    “Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “The blues women had a commanding presence and a refreshing robustness. They were nurturers, taking the yeast of experience, kneading it into dough, molding it and letting it grow in their minds to bring the listener bread for sustenance, shaped by their sensibilities.”
    —Rosetta Reitz, U.S. author. As quoted in The Political Palate, ch. 10, by Betsey Beaven et al. (1980)