Summary
Memories, love and snot. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring the labyrinth of fatherhood.
An Occasion for Tears Produced by Mike Williams
In Third Person (For my son) Written and read by Raymond Antrobus
Are You Here? Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Produced by Axel Kacoutié A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Josie Long, and today's episode is all about fatherhood, |
| 0:12.6 | which is exciting for me because I'm a mum, but I will never be a father. |
| 0:17.2 | So it's good to hear. |
| 0:20.9 | This is Shortcuts, Brief Encounters, True Stories, Radio Adventures and Found Sound. |
| 0:30.1 | Today, fatherhood. |
| 0:35.9 | How long have you been a father for? |
| 0:38.5 | No, not dad, dad, dyes. |
| 0:41.4 | No, not dad, nah. |
| 0:42.6 | Again. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm the funniest. |
| 0:45.0 | And the funnier. |
| 0:46.1 | And mommy. |
| 0:47.1 | I'm mommy. |
| 0:48.2 | Daddy's not funny. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm not funny. |
| 0:53.1 | The man was spread thin and all of his poems in third person. |
| 1:18.6 | Becoming a parent is to step out of your own life into a new, unknown place from which you can't return. And nobody knows what they're getting into until it's too late. |
| 1:22.6 | You've given up for who knows how long your right to personal space, to time to yourself, to sleeping. |
| 1:32.3 | When I have my daughter, I could not believe that the sleepless night stretched out, not for a day or a couple of days, but for years. |
| 1:41.3 | Will it be decades? It might be. But of course, your life is changed and enriched in similarly unfathomable, beautiful ways. Just staring at my daughter, she's so constantly astounding to me in her familiarity and newness. When I first had her, it would shift who she resembled in the space of a |
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