Summary
Josie Long presents a selection of miniature documentaries and tiny audio adventures. A 3-minute elevator journey with the poet Paul Farley, a snappy surrealist game and a journey into the world of the planet’s tiniest inhabitants.
Mini Break Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
The Pitch Written by Paul Farley Produced by Geoff Bird
Five-Seven-Five Produced by Sami El-Enany and Axel Kacoutié
The Shape of You in Her Produced by Jonathan Williams Created for audioplayground.xyz
Time is Happening Produced by Annina Lehman
The Quiet Featuring Aisling Gallagher Produced by Calum Perrin An extract from Conversations Future Selves, a collaborative project commissioned by YLab and HARP
An Acoustic Acclamation to Things Tiny Produced by Action Pyramid
A Hymn to Cardea Featuring Stephen Jenkinson Produced by Phil Smith
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! This is the podcast of Shortcuts. I'm Josie Long. It's very nice to be back. |
| 0:05.5 | Second episode in a new series and this one is an absolutely lovely and unusual one. |
| 0:10.5 | We've got eight different miniature, beautiful miniature pieces for you. |
| 0:15.8 | All kinds of experimentation and creativity and fun. |
| 0:23.1 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:27.6 | Brief encounters. |
| 0:32.9 | True stories, radio adventures, |
| 0:36.8 | and found sound. |
| 0:41.4 | We take things as like kind of waves of like a happenings. |
| 0:46.7 | And in the corridors and atiums that connected parts of the day in the old world, |
| 0:51.7 | you didn't always feel the urge to add your own small voice |
| 0:54.7 | to the acoustic. |
| 0:56.8 | Today. |
| 1:00.2 | Minutes. |
| 1:04.4 | At first I feed you. |
| 1:07.4 | And then I fight for a spoon. |
| 1:11.6 | Now a skylar who cites the entire Skylark anthem, |
| 1:15.6 | rising from its ground nest of speckled eggs to a speck in the clouds. |
| 1:26.6 | So much is currently denied to us. |
| 1:31.0 | So many things are, for whatever reason, impossible. |
| 1:36.0 | But what that means is that on a day-to-day basis, I cling to the tiniest moments of joy. |
| 1:42.8 | That second when I step out of my flat into the rain and I feel |
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