Summary
Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries with stories of loss and discovery.
From being lost in the music to lost love - Josie delves into tales of forgotten cassette tapes, voices rediscovered and teenage rebellion.
Hide and Seek Feat. Steve Colgan
Lost in Music Produced by Steve Urquhart
I am Luther Blissett Produced by Rosanna Arbon
Fluctuations Produced by Phil Smith
Lost Voices Feat. Jude Rogers
Looking for Layla Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
Producer: 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 | The thing is this, you see, I used to be a police officer and the night duty's got |
| 0:39.3 | very dull, particularly in the suburbs of London, where between about 3am and about 5am, |
| 0:46.4 | there is no traffic on the roads, there's no people on the streets, there's nothing. So you tend |
| 0:50.3 | to just be patrolling around, you know, keeping an eye out for the bad guys and keeping an eye out for anyone who might be doing any sort of mischief. |
| 0:57.2 | But at the same time, you're still sort of aimlessly wandering around. |
| 1:02.5 | And one night, I happened to hear on the radio, these strange sort of transmissions |
| 1:07.1 | between two officers, and they were giving what appeared to be cryptic clues, almost like crossword clues. |
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