Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about feats of endurance.
A marathon runner needs to outrun a race official who wants her off the track, a woman exhausts herself while running through the personal ads and a writer living in the shadow of a nuclear reactor finds unlikely companionship with cockroaches.
Endurance Featuring Laura Barton
Mr Right Produced by Inge Hoonte Originally made for Deep Wireless 4
Runner 261 Featuring Kathrine Switzer Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Isn't it lovely? Produced by Phoebe Wang First commissioned as a part of the Constellations podcast's exhibition Resonant Bodies and then released in Constellations This piece was supported in part by the Wassaic Artist Residency Program.
Kathrine Switzer photo credit - Boston Herald
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2020.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome back to Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.8 | It's the first of a new series. |
| 0:09.9 | It's the first in this year. |
| 0:11.5 | It's pretty much the first day of spring. |
| 0:13.5 | I can see two different trees with blossom on them. |
| 0:16.4 | I mean, I appreciate we live in unusual times, |
| 0:18.5 | but it does seem seasonally appropriate. |
| 0:20.6 | It's beautiful. I'm standing on the brow of a but it does seem seasonally appropriate. It's beautiful. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm standing on the brow of a hill in an inner-city park, in the crisp air with birds singing, |
| 0:27.6 | and people playing tennis at the foot of the hill, which is just adorable. |
| 0:31.6 | I really hope that you're feeling this sense of new beginnings and optimism. |
| 0:36.6 | And if you're not, well, don't worry because today's programme is all about endurance, |
| 0:41.1 | which I think is something useful for all of us. |
| 0:47.2 | This is shortcuts, brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:57.0 | Today, endurance. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm reaching the brow of a hill, but as I turned to my right, there's just more hill. |
| 1:08.0 | It's bad, like only gets harder, Phoebe. Damn it. I'm attracted to big brains, |
| 1:15.2 | the sense of humor, and a guy who doesn't take himself too seriously. And I just went really |
| 1:21.1 | quiet because I thought, this is going to change my life and this is going to change women's |
| 1:26.3 | sports. Okay, it's running on the spot now. |
| 1:29.3 | Hello, welcome to short cuts. |
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