Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about our connection to the land. The devastation of bushfires in south eastern Australia, the significance of the acorn for tribal members from the Konkow Nisenan Maidu Nations, and the storyteller Richard O’Neill on the stopping places woven into the British landscape. Then came the birds Featuring Alice Ansara Produced by Sarah Mashman Winner of the HearSay Audio Prize ‘Provoke’ Award 2021
Our rocks are alive Featuring Alicia Potts Singing by Chanse Adams-Zavalla Co-produced by Michelle Macklem, Alicia Potts and Zoe Tennant
Listen to the land Featuring Richard O’Neill
Photo credit: Tiffany Adams
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam Produced by Andrea Rangecroft Executive Producer: Zakia Sewell A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Jacey Long, and today's episode is about the natural world, |
| 0:12.3 | and recording it in a beautiful wood. |
| 0:14.4 | I hope you can find a nice natural spot to sit and enjoy. |
| 0:18.4 | There's some really, really beautiful pieces today. |
| 0:20.6 | They're my favourites. |
| 0:24.5 | I've just stepped into a little patch of woodland in a country park in Glasgow. |
| 0:31.4 | And I can hear the motorway in the distance, but I'm pretending that it's the roaring of a waterfall. |
| 0:43.4 | I love how going into woodland instantly calmed you, sets your whole mind at rest. |
| 0:50.3 | One of the things that's always shocked to me as I spend more time outdoors and more time camping and walking alone is that I feel safe. |
| 1:00.0 | When I was younger, I used to think of woodlands as spooky haunted places |
| 1:03.5 | and the idea of being alone is desperately frightening. |
| 1:07.3 | But it's funny how actually you feel so calm when you're in a more natural environment that |
| 1:13.6 | you don't feel the slightest bit under threat. |
| 1:17.6 | That's what it does to me. Straight away, I feel my nervous system relax. |
| 1:22.6 | It's like when I get into the sea, well, unless the sea is particularly dangerous and then it does the opposite. |
| 1:29.0 | But you know what I mean, in a calm sea. |
| 1:33.9 | This is shortcuts. |
| 1:36.8 | Our oak trees, they can live up to a thousand years. |
| 1:40.8 | To me, they're like family. |
| 1:42.8 | They're like these huge old women watching over us as we gather |
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