Summary
Time capsules and yesterday's dreams of tomorrow, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring lost futures.
That’s Merely an Adjective Produced by Zara Karschay
Time Play by Chelsea Kigano, Lily Sloane, Lilia Vega, and Emily Shaw Originally made as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project Music and sound design by Lily Sloane, with Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay by Ed Andrews Special thanks to David Lee
Letters Produced by Mika Golubovsky and Sasha Borzenko Featuring Zehnya Feldman and Natasha Zotova
Higher Ground Produced by Leila Goldstein Featuring Winda Safitri, Yoppi and Naya Hidayatul Alialna
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Produced by Axel Kacoutié A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, this is Josie Long, and you're listening to The Podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.9 | This is a show all about the future. |
| 0:12.9 | The future is another place. |
| 0:15.1 | It is as yet unwritten, and why don't all of us try to shape it for good? |
| 0:20.3 | It's a bewildering future, all right? |
| 0:22.6 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:23.9 | Give us what we want. |
| 0:25.6 | Better things for less money. |
| 0:27.9 | Briefing counters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:33.6 | We have everything and not enough. |
| 0:36.6 | Today, the light is a little, it's softer. |
| 0:40.3 | Lost features. |
| 0:41.3 | And I am in a very big spacious room with you and having. |
| 0:46.3 | I think in Russia it has become like a silent movement of people writing letters to political prisoners |
| 0:52.3 | because it's a safe activism. It's just a layer, |
| 0:55.5 | but it really makes a difference for the person behind bars. |
| 1:00.4 | Yesterday. Today. Today. Beyond, what needs to change, what stays forever. |
| 1:11.2 | The advancement of our arts from year to year taxes our credulity |
| 1:18.7 | and seems to precede the arrival of that period |
| 1:23.5 | when human improvement and human improvements |
| 1:28.0 | must money |
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