Summary
A charged summer, a garden blooms again, a silent room and the rumbling of lava - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound which explore our mortality.
A New Tense Author: Brit Jensen Sound: Martin Ožvold Music: Kaj T. Jensen, Bjørg Siedelman Christensen and Fagradsfjall
Bower Produced by Phil Smith
Dragonfly Featuring Rebecca Finkel Produced by Alexandra Salmon
Curated by Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, welcome to the podcast version of Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.0 | I hope that you're having an all right time. |
| 0:12.1 | I hope this finds you well. |
| 0:13.5 | I feel like today's episode is about appreciating life as we are living it. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:30.6 | Brief Encounters, True Stories, Radio Adventures and Found Sound. |
| 0:36.6 | Today, Memento Mori. That's off to you boys |
| 0:40.3 | I'm going to turn about you guys |
| 0:44.3 | What you're going to do this far out boys |
| 0:46.3 | We're saying him |
| 0:47.3 | Go on, sorry Bill |
| 0:53.3 | At first there was this hum. |
| 0:57.3 | It was the sound of lava. |
| 1:00.0 | I was listening to the volcano on loudspeakers in my bedroom. |
| 1:06.2 | And we really just developed this mutual love of gardens and plants and trees. |
| 1:13.2 | And her favorite flower was daisies. |
| 1:15.6 | So I actually named the garden daisies. One of the cruelest parts of loss is that most often we have no way of knowing when it will come, |
| 1:39.1 | when the last time we will go somewhere, do something or see someone will be. |
| 1:45.9 | The recordings you're about to hear unfold in the winter of 2020 and the spring of 2021. |
| 1:53.0 | They were collected by the radio producer Britt Jensen as she tried to find her way through an ending. |
| 2:14.6 | All of our gunner regiwers are still uptied. You can expedited as much as much. tried to find her way through an ending. This is me. |
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