Summary
Looking for love online, the desire lines we walk to a lover's house and the untethering of a breast-feeding baby from its mother - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about being drawn towards the ones we love.
Desire Lines Featuring Laura Barton
The Real Tom Banks Produced by Jesse Cox Sound Engineer Timothy Nicastri Originally made for Radiotonic on ABC Radio National
Untethered Featuring Nell Frizzell
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, today's program is all about desire lines and desire itself. |
| 0:18.0 | I remember the first time I saw him sitting on the back row of the bus. |
| 0:21.6 | I remember purposefully sitting opposite him. |
| 0:23.6 | I remember when the bus stopped in traffic, our knees touched. |
| 0:27.6 | And I remember the sort of the feeling of that first kind of touch, that kind of electricity. |
| 0:33.6 | And I remember like the rest of the bus fading away and I remember really focusing in on him and his face. |
| 0:47.6 | Who spoke first? I don't remember. I think I started to say something and then he said, this is my stop. |
| 0:56.4 | I have to get off. |
| 1:00.2 | And then I remember my heart sank. |
| 1:03.5 | And then he said, you can get off too if you want. |
| 1:07.6 | And I did. |
| 1:09.4 | And we've been together for almost 10 years now. |
| 1:14.6 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 1:35.0 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 1:42.5 | Today, desire lights. |
| 1:45.0 | And the song that plays through my headphones smells like you, |
| 1:49.0 | it moves like you, it has your skin. |
| 1:53.0 | He had short brown hair, dark eyes, which I liked. |
| 1:58.0 | There was something exciting about the idea of hooking up with a stranger. |
| 2:12.7 | I'm standing just off the path in a park |
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