Summary
Navigating emotional terrain, finding joy in another world and mapping a continuum of thinking. Josie Long presents short documentaries about desire, love and heartbreak.
Pixels and Bits
Featuring Stephen Sexton Produced by Alia Cassam
Drive Straight Ahead
Written by Jonathan Goldstein and Mira Burt-Wintonick Produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime Originally broadcast on CBC's WireTap
Playing in the Dark
Featuring Gail Lewis, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski and Natasha Mumbi Nkonde Produced by Tej Adeleye
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast version of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope you're enjoying the fact that it is now solemnly winter. |
| 0:11.9 | Today's episode is about maps, physical, internal, emotional and hopeful, and I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:22.6 | You're going to find the page on the night. |
| 0:25.8 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:28.4 | Here we are, Hattney Central. |
| 0:30.3 | Amherst Road, No Street. |
| 0:31.9 | Brief encounters, true stories, |
| 0:34.3 | radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh wow, look, this is before found sound. Oh wow, |
| 0:39.1 | look, this is before it was pedestrians. |
| 0:42.0 | Today, maps. |
| 0:45.0 | The precipice overlooks the valley, |
| 0:46.7 | mystic with shadow, |
| 0:49.1 | where I glimpse again the other world. |
| 0:52.2 | Drive past the company you've devoted 11 years of your life too. |
| 0:58.3 | I'd never been in a space like that before and I was just like, oh my God! |
| 1:02.5 | I feel like I've arrived somewhere, something special was about to happen. |
| 1:19.6 | At the moment, I'm standing at the top of Narrow Way, the main high street in Hattley Central. And I also have in my hand map of London that's 25 years old and what I've realised |
| 1:29.8 | which is a little bit shocking is that these two pages |
| 1:32.3 | of a paper map a small paper map |
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