Summary
Visions and out of body experiences during birth and a name that stretches back through time - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the experience of coming into the world.
Transition Produced by Kalli Anderson and apè Aliermo Featuring excerpts from SIMULA, an 8.2-channel sound installation by apè Aliermo and mixed and mastered by Rose Bolton. This composition includes sound recorded during three anonymous births and electromagnetic sound recorded in a hospital during one of the births. The voices you hear are Redzi Bernard, Becky Kenna, Amy Macfarlane and Andrea Gummo.
Hope is the thing with feathers Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen Originally broadcast, in a different version, on BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears
Loweza Ayazi Featuring Nomkhubulwane Mnisi Produced by Kagiso Mnisi
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Josie Long. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.5 | Hello. |
| 0:16.2 | As soon as I could take a breath, I knew to expect that this next wave was going to come smash against me |
| 0:24.2 | and push me to the bottom of the ocean floor. |
| 0:29.5 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:31.6 | And so I just started roaring and I felt this flood of like intense power just from roaring. |
| 0:38.3 | I literally felt like I was a lioness. |
| 0:40.2 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:50.4 | Today, into the world. |
| 1:02.0 | We'll take it one day at a time, and one day will suddenly be home. Right. |
| 1:08.0 | You're about to embark on a journey, one which all of us have taken, and not to be too grand about it, one which all of us have taken since the dawn of time and long before, from the realm of imagination of gods and myths and monsters to the world of the everyday. |
| 1:29.3 | I started feeling as though my physical body, |
| 1:47.0 | almost like it was becoming liquefied or it was becoming less, |
| 1:53.0 | held together. |
| 2:00.0 | The pain isn't inside a body, it's inside like it's like coming from the core of the earth. |
| 2:04.6 | Like you're, it's that big. |
| 2:11.6 | Because it had this, um... |
| 2:18.3 | Say this sort of like other element of like dissolution. |
| 2:27.3 | It is like an otherworldly sort of state. |
| 2:32.3 | It's like your whole mind is altered |
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