Summary
From tree climbing to getting lost in the forest, Josie Long ventures into the woods.
Featuring Sook-Yin Lee on the wild forest of her childhood, the musician and radio producer Phil Smith on the love and freedom of clambering amid the branches, and a mother and daughter losing themselves amongst the trees.
Climb Featuring Jochen Raiss and Leah Produced by Phil Smith
Lost Featuring Rachel and Carolyn Lloyd Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Behind My House Music by Sook-Yin Lee Produced by Sook-Yin Lee
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to you the podcast of Shortcuts. I'm Josie Long and today has been recorded in a very method way. |
| 0:08.4 | The episode is called Into the Woods. We have been walking into the woods in a nature reserve in Hackney. |
| 0:14.7 | I mean, it's not completely hidden from the rest of society. We've seen a number of people walking and running with their dogs. |
| 0:23.0 | We've been attacked by Robbins and now by a power plant. |
| 0:25.4 | So it's not, you know, I'm not saying we're castaways, |
| 0:28.6 | but we've really gone to great effort here, so I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.9 | What is that? |
| 0:37.8 | Above us is a green parakeet. |
| 0:40.5 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:42.2 | The story that I've heard is that a very wealthy person in Hampstead |
| 0:47.6 | had their own collection of parakeets. |
| 0:50.5 | They got loose. |
| 0:52.1 | And then there was a fleet. |
| 0:56.1 | I assume that's the correct term. there was a fleet of parakeets |
| 0:57.8 | in Hampstead |
| 0:59.0 | but then some of them relocated |
| 1:01.5 | because everyone in London |
| 1:03.1 | seems to be like |
| 1:04.8 | no there's the Lewisham parakeets |
| 1:06.7 | so I think they're just quite successful birds |
| 1:09.5 | brief encounters true stories radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:15.6 | It's the first bright day of spring. |
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