Summary
A vision of the city after dark through the eyes of a graffiti writer, a poem addressed to a piece of legislation and a glimpse of what it means to sell the pain in your life as art.
Short autobiographical docs, adventures in sound and new forms where producers turn the microphone on themselves. Presented by Josie Long.
Dear Section 28 Produced by Tash Walker
A406
Catharsis Produced by Scottee
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. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, welcome back to the first in a new series of shortcuts. |
| 0:09.4 | I am so excited to welcome you back. |
| 0:11.8 | I hope you're all right. |
| 0:13.3 | I hope you are weathering the many storms of winter, |
| 0:17.4 | both physical and metaphorical, with a smile on your face. Today's episode is |
| 0:24.1 | autobiography. It's something that I personally never want to do. I don't think comedians have |
| 0:28.5 | interesting enough lives to have autobiographies. You know, people trying to jazz up going to and |
| 0:34.7 | from gigs is not interesting to me. I want to hear autobiographies from people who have |
| 0:39.6 | climbed mountains or like manned a boat for Greenpeace or caught snakes. You know, that's what I want |
| 0:47.9 | to hear about. But listen, I never say never. If I were offered a very substantial advance, |
| 0:53.3 | I'd be very willing to negotiate. |
| 0:55.5 | And yes, of course, I've come up with several titles for my autobiography. |
| 1:03.0 | This is Shortcuts, Brief Encoun true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:15.6 | Today, Autobiography |
| 1:19.6 | I look down and the roof is only a metre below. |
| 1:23.6 | I could jump on and surf down the North Circular. |
| 1:26.6 | What is it you are hoping to hear? Happy ever after? I saw you in the news. I could jump on and surf down the North Circular. |
| 1:28.9 | What is it you are hoping to hear? |
| 1:30.8 | Happy ever after? |
| 1:31.9 | I saw you in the news. |
| 1:36.0 | I see you are in Florida now and you haven't aged a bit. |
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