Summary
Joe Dunthorne dives into poetic descriptions of the body and we hear the sound of sleep. Visceral short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
Her Eyes Were Like... Featuring Joe Dunthorne, Caroline Bird, Ross Sutherland and Jack Underwood
While You Were Sleeping Featuring Dr Jim Grayburn Produced by Calum Perrin
Transition Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Production Team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, welcome to shortcuts, the podcast version. |
| 0:09.5 | This is Josie Long, speaking through the body of Josie Long, |
| 0:13.3 | inhabiting currently the body of Josie Long. |
| 0:15.8 | This is quite a visceral, bodily experience of an episode. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm going to be as aware as is possible of my body, of my breath, of how fast my heart is beating. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm trying to slow my breathing down a little |
| 1:25.6 | and create a more meditative state. |
| 1:33.3 | This is shortcuts. |
| 1:36.3 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:52.0 | Today, bodies, as somebody who has a near constant friend in irrational anxiety. |
| 2:04.1 | When I started doing yoga and meditation to help, the first thing I came across was trying to reconnect yourself with your breath. |
| 2:10.4 | For five minutes, I watched her sitting completely still, trying to connect with the sensation that she is not her body. |
| 2:12.8 | Just trying to breathe deep and focus only on that. |
| 2:16.6 | That's the paradox that we have when we look at someone's face, especially the face |
| 2:21.3 | of someone we care about. It is bigger than the borders of their skin. |
| 2:27.3 | And they seem to contain a bit like a TARDIS, a whole world. |
| 2:43.6 | And when I'm breathing, |
| 2:48.7 | and when I'm trying to focus on my breathing, |
| 2:52.1 | I like to visualize the ocean. |
| 2:57.1 | The regularity of the waves coming in and going out. |
| 3:04.8 | When I'm feeling very powerful, I imagine that my out breath is pushing the waves out. |
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