Summary
Star maps, messages from Earth to the moon and reaching out across distance as Josie Long presents short documentaries about constellations.
Star Map Featuring Ferdinand Hauge Leth Music by Kirstine Lindemann Captured by Trawl Hz Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
News to the Moon and Back Recordings courtesy of the NASA archive Produced by Mika Golubovsky
The Complaints Department Featuring Evan Gregg and letters from www.dearmisterward.com Produced by Inge Oosterhoff
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Josie Long, and today's episode is all about constellations and the firmament. |
| 0:12.1 | And if you can, I really recommend listening to this episode on a dark, clear night, looking up at the stars. |
| 0:23.3 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:25.4 | Every star in the sky resonates with its own tone. |
| 0:29.8 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:36.4 | Air Canada says it has accepted |
| 0:39.3 | 2300 reservations for flights to the moon in the past five days. |
| 0:44.3 | Today, Constellation. |
| 0:50.3 | We are looking up to a clear night sky, searching for familiar arrangements of stars, our oldest tool for finding a way through the darkness. |
| 1:07.0 | It's deep. |
| 1:16.6 | Outside our range of hearing. |
| 1:32.3 | Every star in the sky resonates with its own tone. Perhaps even music. |
| 1:45.2 | First, I'm sign by a string. |
| 1:47.1 | And what so? |
| 1:48.3 | And so? |
| 1:52.1 | I teach my four-year-old son to draw a star. |
| 1:54.9 | Yes, and so a scroll-strike. |
| 1:56.1 | Direct here. |
| 1:58.5 | So, that. |
| 2:02.6 | We draw a map with six stars. How many of the headings should I have? |
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