Summary
An in-patient in a spinal injuries unit reconnects with herself by learning to cook again after a life-changing injury, friends remember the musician Joe Scurfield and the archive of folk music he left behind, and a radio cantata in memory of 12 civilians killed by US forces in Iraq in 2007. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about remembering, relearning and commemorating.
Canto I, Crazy Horse One-Eight Produced and performed by Gregory Whitehead Commissioned by Magz Hall for the 2014 Radio Dreamlands project
Feast Produced by Bronwen Livingstone
The Tunebank Featuring Tim Dalling and Pete Challoner Produced by Rowan Rheingans Music performed by Joe Scurfield, Tim Dalling, Pete Challoner and Rowan Rheingans
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Josie Long. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.7 | Today's episode is all about memory. |
| 0:10.8 | It's about holding people in memory, keeping the memory of people's alive, |
| 0:14.1 | and also remembering who you really are, |
| 0:17.1 | which, at least in part, mocks my terrible baby brain slash modern world brain and terrible memory |
| 0:24.7 | side a tune nine this is short cuts i think it seemed like the correct way to kind of remember him. |
| 0:40.4 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:47.8 | Today, memory. |
| 0:50.4 | The dance of cooking that I'd perfected over the past 20, 30 years, |
| 0:56.1 | begins to be re-choreographed as I work out how I can cook in this space. |
| 1:02.2 | You hear his voice and that's Joe, but his fiddle playing is almost equally his own. |
| 1:09.9 | It's just so quintessentially Joe. |
| 1:13.1 | In 2010, a video was posted online entitled Collateral Murder. |
| 1:36.4 | It was posted by Wikileaks. |
| 1:40.4 | The video showed a US military helicopter opening fire on a group of people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in 2007. |
| 1:50.0 | Twelve civilians were killed, including two children and two Iraqis who were working for the Reuters News Agency. |
| 1:59.0 | Using the transcript of the radio exchanges between the troops on the ground and the helicopter |
| 2:04.9 | Crazy Horse 1-8, the artist and radio maker Gregory Whitehead created four radio cantos in memory of those |
| 2:14.3 | killed. They addressed the weaponisation of radiophonic space and the casual and dismissive language |
| 2:22.0 | used by the US forces involved. |
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