Summary
A black and white film transformed, searching the sunset for the green flash and a reimagining of red. Josie Long presents a kaleidoscopic collection of short documentaries.
Autism Plays Itself Adapted for radio by Jodie Taylor and Janet Harbord Based on the short film directed by Janet Harbord, produced by Whalebone Films and sound designed by Action Pyramid
Green Flash Written by Joe Dunthorne
Red of Visibility Produced by Phoebe McIndoe With thanks to THE ECCO founded by Jasmin Bauomy, where a version of this documentary was first created
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the new series of shortcuts. We're back and we're badder than ever, which means we're actually very good. We're very excited to be back. I'm very excited to be back for this series. And today's episode is about colours and colour in a very interesting metaphorical way and I hope |
| 0:23.6 | you enjoy it. I am looking out at a very grey sky in Glasgow and hoping for a bit more of the colour |
| 0:29.9 | blue. This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:38.3 | Rid of laughter. |
| 0:39.3 | Rid of hum. |
| 0:41.3 | Brief encounters, true stories, |
| 0:45.3 | radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:49.3 | And it's very rhythmic, so she's doing it in a beat and in a pattern. |
| 0:53.3 | Today... It's almost like contemporary dance, isn't it, watching this sequence? |
| 0:57.0 | In colour. |
| 0:58.0 | It is said that those who see the flash first hand experience great fortune in their lives. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, they would say that. |
| 1:19.4 | We're going to start with a radio adaptation of a black and white film. |
| 1:29.3 | Where the film was in black and white, this adaptation attempts to bring colour and depth to the people at its heart. We hear from three autistic adults responding as they watch a recording made in the Children's |
| 1:33.9 | Ward of the Maudsley Hospital in 1957. |
| 1:38.1 | Initially made for the purpose of refining diagnostic categories, it has one of the first mentions |
| 1:43.7 | of autism in a medical film. |
| 1:46.0 | In the original, psychiatric interpretations of the children's behaviour appeared on intertitle cards. |
| 1:53.0 | Here, we witnessed the birth of a new interpretation altogether. A small blonde boy swipes at a large light bulb above his head repeatedly. |
| 2:14.6 | It's very interesting being able to, for the first time it feels like, being able to watch some people doing things that I would, |
| 2:24.3 | you know, that makes sense to me and go, this is what it is, or this is how I feel it is. |
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