Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about how our sense of self collides with the world outside.
Two Russian journalists find their lives turned inside out when they are classified as foreign agents, Keanu Reeves offers inspiration for one writer navigating his mixed-race identity, and a virtual world offers freedom and new possibilities for a man with Parkinson’s disease.
Keanu Reeves Featuring Will Harris Produced by Alia Cassam
Hello, You're a Foreign Agent Featuring Sonya Groysman and Olya Churakova Produced by Mika Golubovsky and Charles Maynes
A Second Life Produced by Ellie Lightfoot and Gaby Caplan Sound designed by Ellie Lightfoot
Curatorial team: Andrea Rangecroft and Eleanor McDowall Producer: Alia Cassam Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, I'm Jacey Long. |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.2 | Today's episode, Inside Out, features no mentions of what I found to be a baffling |
| 0:14.5 | and almost troubling Pixar film, nowhere near in the realms of Coco, for example, |
| 0:20.5 | one of the greatest Pixar films of all time. |
| 0:23.2 | Today is all about the internal self and the outside world |
| 0:27.4 | and how those two things do a complicated dance with one another, and I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:36.2 | When I was a teenager, I would get the train to Charing Cross Station in central London |
| 0:41.0 | and sit on the station concourse, sketching people who walk past, trying to imagine their lives. |
| 0:50.7 | And being of a particularly melancholy, melodramatic bent, it was never just, |
| 0:56.7 | oh, I think that man is buying a birthday present for his girlfriend. |
| 1:00.8 | It was always, that man has committed a dastardly crime and he's covering it up |
| 1:06.2 | by buying something to use as an alibi. |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm sure in most cases this is wrong, |
| 1:15.6 | but you never know what's going on underneath the surface for somebody. |
| 1:23.6 | In my childhood, I considered two options. |
| 1:26.6 | I want to be an actress or I want to be a journalist. |
| 1:30.3 | And as you see, I made a wrong choice and now I'm a foreign agent. |
| 1:40.3 | He has this almost superheroic shapelessness, or this sense of diffusiveness. |
| 1:48.0 | And I think that's why I've always been drawn to him. |
| 1:53.0 | My avatar looks like me minus about 30 years. |
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