Summary
Josie Long gazes into a mirror as she presents short documentaries and sonic adventures on reflections and doubles.
A woman wrestles with an unsettling shadow, the double act Split Britches explore life as partners and performers and a work of sound art offers advice on becoming more becoming...
Becoming More Becoming Originally made for the Third Coast International Audio Festival ShortDocs competition Produced by Sarah Boothroyd
Split Britches Feat. Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver Produced by Alia Cassam
The Detonator Originally made for CBC's Love Me Produced by Sarah Geis, Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal Duhaime and 'Kate' Sound by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to Shortcuts for the podcast. I'm Jacey Long. I'm currently looking at myself in a mirror and let me tell you it is confronting. I do not find this easy. I'm trying very hard to look upon myself with love, but it's very difficult not to get distracted. |
| 0:25.6 | Today's show is all about mirrors and reflections, and I am sick of mine already. |
| 0:38.0 | When I look in the mirror, I see... |
| 0:43.3 | What do I see? |
| 0:47.1 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:49.3 | I see the lines of my face. |
| 0:51.4 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:57.0 | He is a magnifying glass. I am an insect burning. |
| 1:02.1 | He is an arrow. I am his target. |
| 1:05.4 | Today, mirror image. |
| 1:08.5 | Say, do you look smooth? |
| 1:11.1 | You look mighty elegant yourself if I may say so. |
| 1:20.5 | So right now I'm standing, looking at myself in the mirror, |
| 1:24.2 | which is not something I do that much at the moment with, I have my child and I just don't |
| 1:30.7 | really pay much attention to my appearance. And it's sort of quite confronting to look at myself |
| 1:36.6 | because I think having a baby has really aged me and changed my body. I can see more lines on my forehead than I had before. |
| 1:49.0 | I remind myself so much of different members of my family at different times. |
| 1:55.0 | When I was younger, I was to look at myself and just really, really see my grandma when she was younger. And now I just see my dad, |
| 2:03.2 | God bless my dad, but my dad's an old man. Well, old, that's a bit harsh. So when I look at myself, |
| 2:08.4 | I'm like, I look like a 60-year-old man. There's a sort of face in our family that is a jaw |
| 2:13.9 | that broadens out with age. So I just sort of scrutinise my jaw whether it's broadening out. |
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