Summary
A simple object offers comfort and connection to a grandmother and a long line of Indian women; a wife uncovers the fingerprints her husband left on their world and with them, the microscopic details of grief; and an Urdu language lesson between a father and daughter reveals cultural loss and the father's longing to belong. Josie Long presents short documentaries that reverberate through time.
Silver Cup: A Female Grammar Written and produced by HJ Radia With thanks to Laura Barton In loving memory of J.K Dave (1956-2023)
Fingerprints and Lightbulbs Written and produced by Amanda Priestley
22 Words Featuring Safwat Saleem and his daughter Produced by Safwat Saleem
Produced by 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. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Josie Long and welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.1 | I hope you're really well. |
| 0:11.1 | As the seasons are changing, this is an episode about past seasons and future seasons |
| 0:15.8 | and how we sit in the middle of them. |
| 0:20.4 | This is Shortcuts, Brief Enc true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:33.2 | Today, echoes. |
| 0:36.9 | Like a solarised image, where negative space compacts and is brought forward, made beautiful and wise. |
| 0:46.0 | She tells me, bad things do happen, but there are still riches waiting there. |
| 0:52.6 | There were lots of little pockets of our familiar everyday objects hidden around the house. |
| 0:58.0 | Time capsules waiting to be discovered unpredictably and to snap me right back into a moment. |
| 1:07.0 | Everybody lie sometimes. |
| 1:10.0 | What do you lie about? Can I ask? |
| 1:12.6 | No. |
| 1:13.6 | Okay. |
| 1:19.6 | I've lived in my flat for three years now, |
| 1:26.6 | and that is the longest that I've been able to stay in one home for about 15 years. |
| 1:35.0 | I had you to renting in London and I was somewhat delighted to realise that I am becoming aware of how the seasons change in the microcosm of my home. The leaves |
| 1:47.0 | have started to come off the trees in the communal garden that separates my flat from the flats in the |
| 1:53.6 | road behind us. And my first thought was, oh no, I can't walk around in my underwear in my kitchen |
| 2:00.0 | anymore. I won't be able to do it again |
| 2:02.3 | until March. And I remembered that this was the exact same thing that had happened the year before |
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