Summary
A pamphlet from the 1980s illuminates the world we live in now, a musical invitation for your domestic space, and some dazzling canine choreography for your ears. Josie Long presents short documentaries based around instructions.
How to Listen... including How Not To, How You Ought To, and How You Won't (Extract) Written by Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell Produced by Stephen Potter Originally broadcast on BBC Third Programme in 1946
Hot Dogs! Presented by Alan Smith Produced by Steve Urquhart Originally broadcast on Alan Smith's Mid Morning Show, BBC Radio Cumbria in 1999
Hell Rubs and Sobs Produced by Sami El-Enany
How To Look 30 When You're 30 Produced by Jesse Lawson
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft 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. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, I'm Josie Long, and welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.9 | Today's episode is all about instructions. |
| 0:13.4 | How to listen, including how not to, how you ought to, and how you won't. |
| 0:19.0 | How. |
| 0:23.6 | How? How? How? |
| 0:24.6 | The program is about to begin. We are rehearsing the opening announcement. |
| 0:32.6 | The last details are being added. In the studio, last directions from the producer. |
| 0:38.9 | The producer is speaking. |
| 0:40.3 | And rather quicker on queues in those quotation lines, everybody. |
| 0:43.9 | Last details. |
| 0:45.0 | We expect to pick up ten seconds. |
| 0:46.9 | Oh, yes, thanks. |
| 0:47.8 | Charles... |
| 0:48.6 | Charles, you missed that light on page 12. |
| 0:50.9 | There was a muddle. |
| 0:51.4 | Yes, I know I did. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm very sorry, but I didn't know that line was cut. |
| 0:53.9 | Yeah, the whole line's out. Yes, I know, entirely my fault. No, my fault. Oh, no, my fault. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, my fault. One minute to go. You'll go ahead on a green light, then, that... Right? before the producer hands over to the actors and to the engineers less than a |
| 1:13.0 | minute to go now all the work in the writing and the rehearsing of the |
| 1:16.7 | program all now coming to a head all boiling down to this one supreme moment |
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