Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures centred on a specific point on the map.
An Arctic voyage that veers off track and echoes for years in the minds of its passengers, a baking hot summer evening in Suffolk, and an audio essay exploring the effect of environmental racism on memories of the West London town of Southall.
At Sea Featuring Dr Carol Cotterill, Liam Frost, Dan Harvey and the ship’s crew Produced and read by Vicky Long
8pm, rural village garden, Suffolk, UK on 19th July 2022 Produced by Melissa Harrison Originally featured on the Field Recordings podcast
The Personal is Political Written and read by Daljeet Kaur Jutla
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. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, I'm Jacey Long and welcome to this episode of Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.8 | Today's episode is about geography and, of course, it's about the issue of our time, |
| 0:15.0 | which is climate change in the climate crisis. |
| 0:17.9 | I really enjoyed the pieces for it. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm sure you will as well. I wonder where you are |
| 0:22.5 | when you're listening to this. I hope that you feel you're in a beautiful place and I hope that |
| 0:28.7 | you have some vision of something natural that makes you feel a sense of abundance. |
| 0:38.5 | This is Shortcuts. This is shortcuts. |
| 0:42.0 | Brief encounters. |
| 0:43.3 | One more time. |
| 0:44.4 | True stories. |
| 0:46.8 | Radio adventures. |
| 0:49.5 | And found sound. |
| 0:51.1 | I kind of imagine that it's like how it was in the Industrial Revolution. |
| 0:55.7 | Today, geography. |
| 0:59.0 | We sail into the mouth of a glacier, a field of ice, quiet, creaking, timeless. |
| 1:08.7 | It was in stark contrast to the heavy, toxic smell that clung around the humid air, like petrol, plastic and tar, had been mixed and burnt. |
| 1:19.6 | Last week, for the first time I went to Pell's Pool in Lewis in East Sussex. |
| 1:34.8 | It's a community-run Lido and I've long dreamt of going there. |
| 1:39.6 | And I sat on the grass cross-legged and I listened to the birds. |
| 1:46.7 | There were many. And I looked down and the grass underneath me was really lively with insects. I saw beetles, earwigs, spiders, |
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