Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures as the clock slips closer to midnight.
In the last Short Cuts on BBC Radio 4, 13 years after the broadcast of our first ever episode 'Misadventures', we listen to radio waves after dark with the Shortwave Collective, tumble into a radio poem alongside a sleeping child, tune into a late night pirate radio station from the early 1960s, and raise a parting glass.
At Least Featuring Xelis de Toro Produced by Phil Smith
Voice of Nuclear Disarmament With thanks to the British Library Sound Archive, and the family of John Hasted Produced by Jonny Matfin
Perhaps at Midnight, When All Boundaries Are Lost Produced by the Shortwave Collective
Good Company Featuring Jesse Lawson, Izzy Yon and Femi Oriogun-Williams Produced by Jesse Lawson
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Mix by Mike Woolley Executive Producer: Alan Hall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.3 | This is our final episode of Shortcuts on the BBC. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm standing in a community garden around the corner from my house |
| 0:17.5 | where my dear friend and colleague, Eleanor McDowell, has forced me on our final |
| 0:24.4 | ever episode to stand in the freezing cold at midnight where my children will wake me in a few |
| 0:29.6 | short hours and do you know why I've done it because I love her dearly and I love the show. |
| 0:34.2 | I gave you my job. And I'd also like to say, you have to keep this thing. |
| 0:38.2 | I'd also like to say she not only gave me her scarf, but she lent me a pajama top that I've |
| 0:42.0 | round around my person. But I've also liked it known that she has a very large puffy coat. |
| 0:47.1 | So, and some may say, well, she prepared better. That's true. But anyway, I digress. |
| 0:56.8 | It's the last show. Allow me some self-indulgence I hope you enjoy it it's about being close to midnight which feels a bit too on the nose in so many ways |
| 1:07.2 | this is short cuts it's nearly midnight This is Shortcats. |
| 1:11.6 | It's nearly midnight and I'm walking into the garden of singing trees on the south side of Glasgow. |
| 1:20.6 | On the other side of the garden there's a couple of people with a fire smoking a cigarette. |
| 1:25.6 | Brief encounters, tree stories, radio adventures, |
| 1:31.2 | and found sound. |
| 1:34.7 | It's the middle of December and it's cold. |
| 1:40.0 | I see my breath rising up up with steam, today. |
| 1:47.3 | I should find it very dreadful to think that all this was going to be brought to a dead end. |
| 1:56.1 | By sheer stupidity. |
| 2:00.0 | Midnight. |
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