Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries about food - from congee on a mountaintop to the nightmarish consequences of a family dinner.
The writer Jessica J Lee tries to recreate a vivid sensory experience and Australian audio-maker Mike Williams shares a visceral story of a Christmas Eve meal.
Mutual Mastication Produced by Steve Urquhart
The Nightmare Before Christmas Produced by Mike Williams
Congee Dreams Produced by Jessica J Lee
Last Requests Produced by Hannah Dean
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, welcome back to shortcuts. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm so excited it's the start of a new series. |
| 0:10.2 | In the time between having these series, I've had a baby. |
| 0:13.1 | What have you done? |
| 0:15.4 | This episode is all about meals, during which I'm cooking a pumpkin soup, it's a real action episode what I want to say |
| 0:23.4 | is oh during the show you should cook something and eat it but I must warn you not to eat anything |
| 0:29.1 | until the end of the Australian Christmas story don't do it to yourselves it's very important |
| 0:34.1 | the first thing you're going to hear is called mutual m Mastication, and it's made for us by Steve Erkett. |
| 0:42.4 | Dig it. |
| 0:43.5 | Ugh. |
| 0:45.8 | Mm. |
| 0:48.4 | Oh, look at that. |
| 0:50.4 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, good? Mm. Mm. Mm. |
| 0:56.0 | Mm. |
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| 0:58.0 | Mm. |
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