Summary
From one last journey in the morning light to caring for an endling - the last of a species - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that begin at the end.
Toughie Featuring Mark Mandica Produced by Sarah Craig Including recordings by Mark Mandica and Thomas Bancroft
The Heart's Chorus (Extract) Originally created for the HearSay Festival in 2019 With musical performances from Niamh O'Brien (harp) and Wes Swing (cello) Produced and composed by Phil Smith
Setting Sail (Extract) Originally broadcast in 1985 Produced by Piers Plowright
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and 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. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, I'm Josie Long. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome back to shortcuts to our new series and the first episode, |
| 0:12.6 | which is absolutely trippily titled an ending. |
| 0:16.8 | Good to start with an ending, get it out the way and then you can have the start. |
| 0:20.5 | Today's show is about some heavy and beautiful things like a hippopotamus in a tutu. |
| 0:30.1 | Although that's also very dangerous. You have no idea. |
| 0:32.8 | Hippopotamuses commit a lot of acts of aggression. |
| 0:36.6 | They're far more dangerous than many other animals. That's the |
| 0:39.2 | thing that I've learned from having a four-year-old. I hope you enjoy the show. There's no hippopotamuses |
| 0:44.4 | within it apart from those. And I feel I ought to be saying hippopotam I, but I'm not going to say it. |
| 0:49.6 | Because I feel like it's the same with octopye. I feel like perhaps linguistically that battle's been lost |
| 0:55.2 | because octopuses is a lovely word. |
| 1:09.6 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 1:12.4 | I thought my heart would stop. |
| 1:15.6 | Briefing counters. |
| 1:16.6 | I had to try to get a recording. |
| 1:18.8 | True stories. |
| 1:19.9 | Because it's never been recorded. |
| 1:21.5 | Radio adventures. |
| 1:23.3 | And found sound. |
| 1:25.7 | The losses continue because they aren't registered. they aren't marked, they aren't seen as important. |
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