Summary
From a broken-hearted granddaughter's search for understanding to a collective conversation around desire - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about desire, love and heartbreak.
ROW-cub Produced by Neena Pathak
Texts I've Sent The Government Featuring John-Luke Roberts and River Hall
Falckensteinscredo Produced by Phil Smith
An Interrogation Produced by Erisa Apantaku
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, welcome back to a brand new series of shortcuts. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm absolutely thrilled to be back. |
| 0:09.3 | Today's episode is full of the most important things in the world. |
| 0:13.8 | Romance, love, heartbreak, desire, text messages, a kitchen. |
| 0:20.7 | Somebody writing a very beautiful poem about a kitchen, |
| 0:23.0 | it's got it all, thrills and spills and heartache. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:32.4 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:36.6 | Briefing Countess, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. Today, from the heart. |
| 0:48.9 | When you look back at the people you have desired, the people you've crushed on, and the people you've |
| 0:54.0 | partnered up with. |
| 0:55.5 | What percentage would you say have been white? Oh gosh. We believe in the light that goes out |
| 1:00.6 | and the light that does not light at all. |
| 1:03.2 | Up and tutla. I'm the relationship. Tutla. |
| 1:15.0 | We're going to start at the end of a romantic |
| 1:16.7 | relationship |
| 1:17.4 | at that moment |
| 1:19.4 | when you're so tender |
| 1:20.9 | and vulnerable |
| 1:21.8 | and there's no protective |
| 1:24.0 | layer between your feelings |
| 1:25.7 | and the world around you. |
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