Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about absences which leave a mark. An unexpected visitor, a haunted literature and a grandson searches for the truth about a grandmother he never knew.
Ghosts Featuring Mariana Enríquez
Unexpected Guests (Extract) Produced by Phoebe Judge, Lauren Spohrer, and Nadia Wilson Originally made for the podcast Criminal
Alicia Written and produced by Sayre Quevedo, with editing by Cristal Duhaime, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Sarah Geis, mixed by Mira Burt-Wintonick Originally made for the podcast Love Me
Beloved Featuring Toni Morrison Produced by Shanida Scotland
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good evening or morning and welcome to the podcast, the spooky podcast of spooky shortcuts, presented by me, the ghost of Josie Long. |
| 0:20.0 | Honestly, we've been plagued by spooky noises. |
| 0:23.3 | Look at that. That's a spooky... |
| 0:24.6 | There's been a number of spooky instances during the recording of this episode. |
| 0:28.9 | Like in front of me now, I can see some spooky lights going on and off in a bush. |
| 0:33.3 | We saw an abandoned child's pram that was utterly terrifying. |
| 0:37.4 | And in it was a plastic bag full of tiny dolly's nappies unused. |
| 0:42.6 | It would be more frightening if the dolly had used the nappies, |
| 0:45.8 | Eleanor the producer points out. |
| 0:47.4 | But I put it to you that it's still one hell of a creepy discovery at night. |
| 0:53.5 | I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 0:54.9 | I think it's a very beautiful and haunting show, |
| 0:57.3 | but also quite scary in places. |
| 1:07.7 | To me, a ghost story is a story about that that has been silenced. |
| 1:17.6 | All those things that a society doesn't want to see. |
| 1:23.6 | They are more powerful when they appear in the form of the supernatural, |
| 1:28.3 | because that way you can't ignore them. |
| 1:33.3 | They scare you because they are full of rage. |
| 1:38.3 | My ghosts are angry, |
| 1:40.3 | and they're angry because they've been ignored, |
| 1:43.3 | and because this that happened to them have been ignored |
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