Summary
Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries dedicated to our love for those around us - an invocation for creating new life, finding meaning in being stood up and decades spent hearing about, and helping, Britain's LGBTQ+ life.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Josie Long, and today's episode is about devotion. |
| 0:11.1 | And it's very interesting to me because I had a conversation with a friend recently |
| 0:14.3 | about how close sometimes people's devotion to politics or to living a particular kind of values driven life can be to religion. |
| 0:24.3 | And even down to at marches or at political celebrations, I love to see hand-sown banners. |
| 0:32.7 | And then remembering that the other place that I love to see those was at church when I was growing up. |
| 0:42.9 | Or at a community event, there's often free food, and at a church event, it was always about free food. |
| 0:51.6 | Now, I don't want you to think I'm all about free food, but it's about that idea of practical acts of giving and of service to others, |
| 0:54.8 | and those occupying a kind of beautiful space. |
| 0:58.7 | And not the whole show is about that, but it's definitely something that I was thinking about. |
| 1:09.7 | We raise an incantation to the great gas clouds of Venus, raining down sulfuric acid that never touches the surface. |
| 1:15.4 | This is Shortcuts. Brief Encounters. |
| 1:17.4 | True Stories. |
| 1:19.6 | Radio Adventures. |
| 1:21.7 | And found sound. |
| 1:27.4 | With temperatures so high, atmospheric pressure, so crushing. Winds turning heat, its tilt creating giant polar |
| 1:32.5 | vortexes. Today, devotion. We're supposed to meet by midnight and I didn't have a phone |
| 1:42.4 | or anything and I didn't have a thing but my charms. |
| 1:45.5 | I used to say it was the longest relationship of my life, which was definitely true. |
| 1:50.2 | I was chanting her name. That's what we used to call it when we're kids. If you really |
| 1:54.0 | like somebody, you chanted their name. |
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