Summary
Josie Long presents new short documentaries and audio essays about intertwining with another person.
A father and son stare out to sea and talk about a lost love, a woman writes a letter to her young daughter unpicking the complex intersections between motherhood, art, selfhood and capitalism, and a widow finds an unusual spirit guide for her grieving.
Victoria, My Spirit Widow Produced by Sophie Townsend
The Art of Knowing When to Retreat Produced by Stacia Brown Originally made for the podcast Hope Chest
A Friend Produced by Sayre Quevedo
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2018.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, welcome to the podcast version of Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.4 | My name's Josie Long. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello. |
| 0:09.2 | And this episode is called Me and You. |
| 0:11.7 | And what is very exciting for me about it is that I finally get to at least mention my extreme fan devotion to the musician Joanna Newsom, who is my favourite musician, definitely my favourite |
| 0:24.9 | folk harpist. And I nearly got to mention a song I really like a furs called Colleen, which |
| 0:30.4 | is not on an album, it's on an EP that she made in between albums. But it's about some kind of sea beast who's brought to shore and forced into the |
| 0:41.6 | confines of being a woman in a medieval society. |
| 0:45.0 | But she never forgets the life of the sea. |
| 0:47.6 | And she says it's like stepping for a missing stare. |
| 0:49.8 | And we nearly managed to shoehorn that into the program. |
| 0:52.3 | But unfortunately it was not really appropriate or relevant. |
| 0:59.7 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 1:03.8 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:09.8 | Today, me and you. |
| 1:14.7 | There's a certain kind of closeness where you forget that the other person is separate from you. |
| 1:20.6 | You're so at ease with them that you don't feel as if there's a distinction. |
| 1:25.3 | Since having a child in a one-bedroom flat, my partner and I have redefined our |
| 1:30.1 | definition of intimacy. The bathroom, for example, is no longer a private place. Being there at |
| 1:36.9 | my daughter's birth brought us together in a way that I can't describe, but I feel completely. |
| 1:43.6 | At the same time, our daughter is too young to realise that |
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