Summary
Wrong numbers that make the right connections and the comforting voices of strangers - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about phones.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. My name's Josie Long. And today's episode is all about the fact that even though we're very used to our phones, they still remain a way that we can unexpectedly be intimate with somebody or find a kind of adventure just through the fact that we're connecting to the wider |
| 0:22.6 | world. And because this is a phone episode, I really want to begin the show the way I used to |
| 0:28.1 | and was taught to answer the phone as a child, which is you don't say who it is, you say the number. |
| 0:32.9 | So you say, hello, Alpington 34741 or later on, Alpington 834741. Sadly, that number is now out of service, |
| 0:42.4 | if anyone wants to call nothing. The first thing you're going to hear today comes from the producer Mark |
| 0:48.9 | Vernon and it's a recording of somebody trying to work out how to record a telephone conversation. |
| 0:55.8 | And if you've made your own podcast or sound recordings, you will know that that is an |
| 1:00.0 | absolute bloody nightmare. |
| 1:03.4 | Hang on a minute. |
| 1:04.9 | All it says is, um, recording of telephone conversations, the usual microphone can cannot be used to record the telephone |
| 1:14.2 | conversation instead use the special telephone pickup attach the suction cup of the telephone |
| 1:18.7 | pickup to the telephone case and plug the cord into the record mic mic mic mic |
| 1:24.7 | jack fig 13 monitoring wild record M-I-C Jack, Fig 13. Yes. Monitoring while recording. |
| 1:31.3 | Oh, that doesn't matter. That's all it says. |
| 1:34.3 | And it's just to ascertain the sound quality of the material being recorded, |
| 1:37.3 | monitoring is possible in the following ways. |
| 1:39.3 | Through the speaker, set the monitor switch for on. |
| 1:43.3 | Through the earphone, set the monitor switch for on. Through the earphone, set the monitor switch for off, |
| 1:47.0 | plug the earphone cord into the extension speaker jack. |
| 1:50.0 | I suppose I could hear what was going on then. |
| 1:53.0 | Anyway, I'll try that now. |
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