Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that centre around acts of love - from the story of Ruth Coker Burks, who became a loving caretaker for hundreds of men during the AIDS epidemic, to the poet Nikita Gill's look at a love which ended in its beginning.
Jewels from the Sun Written and read by Nikita Gill
The Last Act Featuring Anita Barrows Produced by Phil Smith This interview first appeared in the documentary To Bear Witness on BBC Radio 3 in Between the Ears.
Comet Dust Featuring Ruth Coker Burks Produced by Jodie Taylor and Chloe White
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Jacey Long and welcome back to Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.1 | This episode is coming out two days after Valentine's Day, |
| 0:12.2 | universally accepted to be the worst holiday of all. |
| 0:15.1 | Although this year, very interesting because restaurants cannot be full up of people not talking to each other, |
| 0:22.1 | and maybe nobody is going to have FOMO because everybody is faux in the house. |
| 0:28.8 | This show is all about acts of love, but I think in many ways it's about loving and gentleness, |
| 0:36.2 | and it's the opposite of a proposal in a football game. |
| 0:44.0 | And I think it's a very beautiful episode, and I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:48.5 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:52.0 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:59.0 | Today, acts of love. |
| 1:03.0 | He just left comet dust all over us. |
| 1:07.0 | I feel like when I walk it still falls off of me. That day, I bought you silver earrings shaped like birds. |
| 1:15.6 | I wanted you to be as free as you could be. |
| 1:22.6 | Our first story today comes from the poet Nikita Gill. |
| 1:31.0 | It's an audio letter to a woman from her childhood. |
| 1:35.0 | It's a story of an almost love. |
| 1:54.0 | The thing with almost loves is, they have a way of seeping into your bones. Like the waves of an ocean that keep coming back to a shoreline that it knows will send it away. |
| 2:07.6 | That's what all memories become in the end, I suppose. |
| 2:19.3 | In my country, women treasure are the women through the giving of jewelry. |
| 2:27.3 | Silver earrings for a birthday, a necklace from a day in Dillie heart, |
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