Summary
Blue skies, a rainbow of strangers and lipstick shades weave through today's short documentaries about colour. Josie Long explores how it affects the way we experience the world.
Blue Featuring Laura Barton
Lipstick Featuring Davia Nelson Produced by Benjamen Walker
I Know Light Now Featuring Vanessa Potter Produced by Leila Hussain
Ring a Rainbow Produced by Dennis Funk
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2018.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, my name's Jacey Long and welcome to the podcast version of Shortcuts, |
| 0:10.0 | which today is a 30-minute exploration of what my favourite colour is and why. |
| 0:16.1 | Very much undertaken from a five-year-old perspective, I should say. |
| 0:24.1 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:28.4 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:34.3 | Today, colours. |
| 0:37.2 | And I just said, you are so red. |
| 0:38.3 | You are so red. |
| 0:40.3 | It glowed and it almost flashes. |
| 0:42.3 | You must understand. |
| 0:46.3 | The name like purple, I have been besieged my own life. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm tired of color and my name. |
| 0:53.3 | I think my favorite color and my name. |
| 0:59.9 | I think my favorite color is red or yellow. |
| 1:05.5 | Possibly it's the 1950s tiling color of swimming pools, |
| 1:10.4 | that kind of aquamarine that's like the artificial color of the sea. You know what I'm saying. I should say at this |
| 1:12.9 | point, it's very hard to describe colour on the radio, but buckle up because that is what the next |
| 1:19.0 | half an hour is about. When you're a child, your favourite colour is a really big issue. It's probably |
| 1:26.9 | about a third on the list of important questions. |
| 1:30.3 | What's your name? What's your age? And then bang, what's your favourite colour? And when I was asked, I would always say my favourite colour was green. My favourite colour is not and has never been green. I like the natural landscape now, but I didn't then, |
| 1:47.6 | not when I was a child. When I was a child, I liked sitting indoors and eating and chess |
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