Summary
Josie Long hears stories drawn from the silver screen. Luke Skywalker helps Joe Dunthorne reckon with his own mortality, the writer Ross Sutherland explores the hidden history of the audience and Amanda Foster offers an insight into the life of a stuntwoman.
Luke Deathbringer Featuring Joe Dunthorne
Body Double Featuring Amanda Foster Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Hollywood Forever Featuring Ross Sutherland
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2018.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.4 | Hello, welcome to shortcuts. I'm Josie Long. |
| 0:06.5 | And today we're going to make it in the movies. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm going to take you all the way to the top to Hollywood. |
| 0:13.3 | We're going to the cinema, to the movies, to the pictures, to the flicks, to the silver screen, to the old-fashioned light show, to the old |
| 0:27.0 | picture house. I have run out of terms. And also I should say that a lot of today's show is |
| 0:35.2 | kind of about mortality and time passing. But nonetheless, buckle up, kid, we're going all the way to the top. |
| 0:46.0 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:50.2 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:56.1 | Today, cinema. |
| 0:59.0 | It's like a dance to the beat, the beat, to the beat, timing is everything. |
| 1:03.8 | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, 12 box files of portraits of Marilyn in the night. |
| 1:18.0 | Rewatching a film that you loved as a child is a dangerous gamble. |
| 1:23.0 | It hasn't changed, but you have. |
| 1:26.3 | And sometimes what the film reveals to you is that past you |
| 1:31.0 | was an idiot. Why was my teenage self so relaxed about the terrible gender politics of Indiana Jones? |
| 1:38.4 | Why did I think that natural-born killers was a film that had role models in it. |
| 1:49.5 | At the very least, seeing them again shows you that time has changed you. |
| 1:56.2 | The film stays in the past, but you're hurtling forward in one direction away from it. |
| 1:58.5 | Here's the writer Joe Dunthorn. |
| 2:05.0 | Whenever I meet death, he always speaks in the voice of Luke Skywalker. |
| 2:10.1 | First of all, that squeaky clean image, that's not me. |
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