Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries about creating something out of nothing, fresh starts and the beginning of the end.
From a band that existed before they'd ever met each other to the new beginnings which bring sweet, if painful, endings in a relationship between a mother and daughter.
The Dandelion Adventure Produced by Geoff Bird
Good Year for the Roses Produced by Sophie Townsend
Meteor Shower Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast on May 2018.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the beginning of the beginnings episode, the beginning of the beginnings. |
| 0:14.0 | Like that, the Beatles song, this is the end of the beginnings. |
| 0:18.7 | You know, I think it's on Revolver, you know, you know, that whole style of that whole record. |
| 0:24.1 | I really hope that you enjoyed today's show. |
| 0:27.6 | This is the start and what a good start we have made of it. |
| 0:35.4 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:39.3 | Brief Encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:45.9 | Today. |
| 0:49.2 | Beginings. |
| 0:50.7 | You were either a small town visionary or a small town snake oil salesman. |
| 0:55.6 | Which of those is most accurate? |
| 0:59.2 | The sky is clear. |
| 1:00.9 | I move my bed beneath the window. |
| 1:03.2 | And I lie here in the silent night, watching the shooting stars. |
| 1:10.6 | Where I'm from, the London Bar of Brumley, always felt like a very small sea conservative |
| 1:15.2 | place. |
| 1:16.6 | conformism was in the air. |
| 1:18.7 | It hung above us like a conformist mist. |
| 1:23.1 | And whenever I would try to speak to adults about my creative ambitions, the response that |
| 1:27.3 | you would always get would be you've got to live in the real world and be realistic. And this |
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