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Short Cuts

Intimacies

Short Cuts

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8788 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A writer discovers his digital double, the story behind a name and an erotic invitation - short documentaries about the intimate relationships between us. Presented by Josie Long.

The Double Written and read by Joe Dunthorne A version of this story first appeared in the London Review of Books

Intimacy Produced by Kristina Loring

A Name That Sounds Pretty Produced by Erisa Apantaku

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.

0:05.2

Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts.

0:08.2

Today's episode is about intimacies.

0:10.2

I'm Josie Long, and I do believe that a podcast is a more intimate way of listening to this show

0:16.4

than simply through a radio, because here I am right through the headphones.

0:25.6

And only you know that you're listening to my voice.

0:29.8

Hello.

0:31.1

I hope you're doing okay.

0:33.6

I wonder if this is setting off ASMR.

0:36.7

I doubt it.

0:37.4

I think most people have quite specialised energy.

0:43.1

If you listen to the show a few times,

0:45.5

I hope that my voice is familiar in a nice way.

0:48.8

And I hope it feels connected in a nice way.

0:54.4

Without love, it's absolutely horrid.

0:59.6

It's not because I'm sort of terribly pure or anything I get.

1:04.0

Yes, I've got a sort of religious thing about me.

1:06.0

I have.

1:06.5

That's perfectly true.

1:07.4

I think an awful lot of people have.

1:09.0

They may not like to admit it.

1:10.8

I think you're terribly naive. I think you still think that sex is wicked. You see,

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