Summary
Siren song, lunar eavesdroppers and the gathering dark - Josie Long presents short documentaries about venturing into the night.
Siren Song Featuring melancholydi Produced by Kalli Anderson
Lunar Eavesdroppers An extract from Space Ham, first broadcast in BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears Produced by Rose de Larrabeiti and Caroline Devine A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3
Beneath Produced by Sami El-Enany
Brücke Featuring Stephen Jenkinson Produced by Phil Smith
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. |
| 0:08.4 | Today's episode is about night time. |
| 0:11.1 | I hope you are sat up late at night, |
| 0:14.1 | and it feels like the entire world belongs to you. |
| 0:26.6 | Music world belongs to you. This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:30.6 | Swim, naked, all together in this lake under the full moon. |
| 0:40.2 | Magical, magical, beautiful moment. |
| 0:48.0 | The moment when you are forgetting about everything around, about war, about your problems. |
| 0:55.0 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. He said to me, I need to build a system that listens to the radio signals from Armstrong and Aldrin when they're on the moon. |
| 1:03.0 | Today? |
| 1:04.0 | I thought he was crazy. |
| 1:05.0 | Into the night. |
| 1:07.0 | Singing seems to me to be an involuntary eruption of life inside you that your breastbone can't contain. |
| 1:36.3 | Well, Walking home alone, filled with the glow of an evening with friends. We joined Diana, a singer, on a night walk through the streets of Kyiv in Ukraine. |
| 1:47.1 | I was in Kiev that day. |
| 1:49.9 | I was on my way home from my friend's birthday, |
| 1:53.8 | and we had such a good time, |
| 1:55.3 | because, you know, people in Ukraine, |
| 1:57.0 | they still celebrate their birthday. |
| 2:05.8 | So we had kind of picnic party on the island of the river we have in the center in Ukraine. We have the island with the forest on it. So we would celebrate this birthday the whole |
| 2:13.6 | evening. Swim naked all together in this lake under the full moon. |
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