Lines of Communication
Short Cuts
BBC
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries about communication - messages that could break your heart, rescue you from a fight or save you from a long stay in jail.
The writer Glenn Patterson explains why sometimes we should ignore the writing on the wall, and musician Tom Robinson describes the unlikely message he sent at a time when he was in a lot of trouble.
Stories of last words, lost love and lights being knocked out.
The items featured in the programme are:
Guess Who Found sound from the collection of Mark Vernon http://www.meagreresource.com/
L'Esprit De L'Escalier Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
Yanto Featuring Glenn Patterson Produced by Rachel Hooper
Message from Above Featuring Tom Robinson Produced by Alan Hall
Dear Sophie Produced by Sara Parker
Conversations with Nic Featuring Esther Baker
Produced by Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.6 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:34.7 | When I come home this evening, only to discover you weren't home, I decided I shouldn't |
| 0:45.3 | change because I'm confident that your phone asking me to come and meet you. |
| 0:57.0 | I wish you'd phone. |
| 1:00.0 | I wish just now and again you'd ask for my help. |
| 1:07.0 | However, I'll just have to wait and see. |
| 1:15.2 | I love you. |
| 1:18.2 | Guess who? |
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