Summary
Josie Long, P.I. investigates a series of mysterious audio adventures and short documentaries including The Young Detective, The Case of the Disappearing Turtle and The Big Sleep (at 73). The Missing Turtle Featuring Diana and Oliva Produced by Maria Dønvang
The Young Detective Featuring Hilde Lysiak You Will Die at 73 Featuring Hugh Clegg and Jamie Robinson Directed by Hugh Clegg Music composed by Mathilde Koechlin and Jamie Robinson Sound Design by Carlos San Juan Juanchi
Producer: Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, this is the podcast of shortcuts. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Jacey Long and welcome to today's episode, which is about detectives, an absolute thrill. |
| 0:14.0 | If like me, you're a big fan of detective shows, of solving mysteries in your life, of the fact that often things feel like they might |
| 0:23.8 | be affront for some sort of exciting or nefarious activity. If like me, you've ever had |
| 0:29.7 | your bicycle stolen and yearned to solve the case knowing perhaps you never would, this is |
| 0:35.6 | the episode for you. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:42.9 | It was a day just like any other. |
| 0:45.8 | I was there with a steaming cup of Joe just looking out the window waiting for the day, |
| 0:49.1 | watching the world go by until... |
| 0:52.9 | Wait, what's that by the lamppost over the road? |
| 0:56.0 | Looks like an entire kitchen unit, |
| 0:59.0 | strung out on the street, |
| 1:01.0 | like someone was holding some kind of outdoor renovations. |
| 1:07.0 | But nobody was. |
| 1:09.0 | It had been left there. Why? By whom? Would the council take it away? |
| 1:18.2 | That was just the first time. Since then, every few weeks another load left just by the lamppost on my street. A sofa here, a fridge there, |
| 1:34.3 | a big roll of ugly underlay and carpet another time. Who was at the bottom of this? Well, one thing was for sure. |
| 1:47.0 | They didn't know just whose attention they'd peaked, |
| 1:51.0 | or that they wouldn't be getting away with it for much longer. |
| 1:56.0 | Not with me on the case. This is Shortcuts, Brief Encounters, |
| 2:22.4 | true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
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