Summary
As the days lengthen and a new season approaches, Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the Rilke poem Early Spring.
The People Who Feel Featuring Henry Cordova Produced by Ariana Martinez
Falling Like Blossom Featuring Naoko Abe Produced by Sarah Cuddon
Lilia is Listening Originally made for the podcast Love Me https://www.cbc.ca/radio/loveme/in-the-distance-1.4899506 Produced by Sara Brooke Curtis, with Cristal Duhaime, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Sarah Geis Mix by Cristal Duhaime
Readings by Stacia Brown
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.2 | Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | I'll say blue tits |
| 0:12.5 | I'll say blue tits |
| 0:14.7 | Do you think calling boobs tits |
| 0:18.3 | comes from a joke about birds? |
| 0:21.6 | Should we just use this for the show? |
| 0:24.6 | Hello and welcome to the final episode in this series of shortcuts |
| 0:28.4 | but we will be back in late May so don't worry too much. |
| 0:31.7 | This episode is themed around early spring |
| 0:35.2 | and the unmistakable deep feeling of germination of new things |
| 0:41.6 | that is there in nature and there in us too. |
| 0:45.7 | It's also a pilot for my bird watching programme where I stared up. |
| 0:49.6 | I saw some tits and I said tits and I'm very sad that those innocent birds have been mired in innuendo. |
| 1:01.0 | This is shortcuts. |
| 1:07.0 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. Today, early spring. |
| 1:20.5 | Early spring, harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry gray. |
| 1:28.3 | Little rivulets of water change their singing accents. |
| 1:33.3 | Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space. |
| 1:39.3 | And country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings |
| 1:44.7 | that find expression in the empty trees |
| 1:48.0 | Stasia Brown reading Rilker's poem early spring |
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