Summary
A family whose women are bound by activism, poetry between generations and forging new families in later life. Josie Long presents short documentaries about familial connections.
Radical Love Featuring Ash Sarkar Produced by Alia Cassam
A Beautiful Arrangement Featuring Stefanie Clark and Jane Callahan-Moore Produced by Bill Healy
Loose Lips Featuring Mark ‘Mr T’ Thompson and Fiona Goffe Produced by Alan Hall
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. My name's Jacey Long. I hope you're enjoying yourselves wherever you are and what you're doing. Today's episode is about family. We have three really interesting stories about how family can make you who you are, but also about how you can build your own family at different |
| 0:22.9 | times in your life. I really hope you enjoy it. I've just moved house with my entire family, |
| 0:28.8 | and I never recommend it. |
| 0:33.3 | Bloody families, I'll finish with them. What do they do to you, eh? Hold you back. |
| 0:38.7 | Drake you down. |
| 0:40.8 | And then they break your bloody heart. |
| 0:44.6 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:47.9 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:55.3 | Today, family ties. |
| 1:03.6 | Sometimes you catch a glimpse of her, the mother of my mother. |
| 1:09.3 | A survivor of a bygone era when loose lips, sunk ships, |
| 1:12.6 | and now a sad old soul slipping slowly from this earth. |
| 1:17.6 | You know, people have their birth families and their married families, |
| 1:22.6 | but they also have the choice to go out and pick a family. |
| 1:28.4 | And that gave me permission to start looking for people |
| 1:33.1 | with whom I had things in common. |
| 1:36.5 | Today's episode is about families, |
| 1:39.0 | both the ones that we're born into |
| 1:40.6 | and the different variations of the ones that we get to choose for ourselves. |
| 1:45.8 | The first voice you're going to hear today is the political commentator and writer Ash Sarker. |
| 1:55.4 | Stubbornness. We are 100% all really stubborn women. |
| 2:00.6 | We politically argue all the time, but it never feels hostile or nasty when we're having |
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