Summary
Looking for a miracle and searching for divine love - Josie Long presents short documentaries about keeping faith.
Recitation Featuring Madinah Javed Produced by Alia Cassam
Crab Babygrow Featuring Sarah Mouracade Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Divine Love Produced by Sook-Yin Lee
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.0 | My name's Josie Long, and I hope you're enjoying your day. |
| 0:11.7 | Today's episode is all about faith and divine intervention in everyday life. |
| 0:17.3 | Spiritual and faithful connections between our lives and the wider world. |
| 0:28.4 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:32.3 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. Today, keeping faith. |
| 0:42.2 | I've had a lot of disappointments in my life, and so I was afraid of being hopeful, but I felt |
| 0:47.3 | hopeful, but I didn't want to count on it. I saw the anger slowly drained from the man's face. |
| 0:56.7 | It was like I was witnessing a miracle. |
| 1:00.8 | In today's episode, three women explore how having faith has shaped and changed their lives. |
| 1:08.1 | The first voice you're going to hear is Medina Javid. |
| 1:11.6 | So this is the Quran that I've had since I was a kid and I've always been learning from this Quran and you can see |
| 1:19.6 | like I've had to salutate the sides of it because it's kind of falling apart and even one of my teachers like I saw her Quran and like all the pages are like falling |
| 1:27.9 | out so you can see it's really been used a lot. Each different letter will have different |
| 1:33.2 | characteristics so some might be light, some might be heavy so there's actually like a lot of |
| 1:37.7 | detail that's in the rules and about how you pronounce different things. Because I remember when I was |
| 1:43.6 | in primary school, |
| 1:44.3 | we'd have to play the recorder or we'd play the flute. |
| 1:46.6 | And, you know, it's just like anything else. |
| 1:48.2 | If you want to become good at it, |
| 1:49.8 | then you practice it, just like a musical instrument. |
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