Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by Virginia Woolf's idea of Moments of Being.
"I find that scene making is my natural way of marking the past. Always a scene has arranged itself: representative; enduring. This confirms me in my instinctive notion (it will not bear arguing about; it is irrational) the sensation that we are sealed vessels afloat on what it is convenient to call reality; and at some moments, the sealing matter cracks; in floods reality; that is, these scenes - for why do they survive undamaged year after year unless they are made of something comparatively permanent?"
Waves Featuring Milton Dawes Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick Music by Carl Vézina
How It Felt Featuring Sofia Saldanha, Katharina Smets and Ariel Mejia Produced by Eleanor McDowall
The Fear Featuring Erisa Apantaku Produced by James T. Green
28 hours Featuring Beverley Bass Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Josie Long and you're listening to Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.9 | Today's show is about moments in life when you feel you're really heightened in your experience of it. |
| 0:16.7 | And I hope you're having one of those days today. |
| 0:19.2 | I hope that you've tasted seawater and smelt flowers, whatever you've done. |
| 0:26.0 | I hope it's been heightened and wonderful. |
| 0:28.2 | I hope you've had memories today that you shall fondly remember for the rest of your life. |
| 0:32.1 | And if not, I mean, hopefully this show will be that for you. |
| 0:37.6 | It's like you're holding your breath. |
| 0:41.1 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:43.4 | It's a vertical. |
| 0:46.1 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm falling into something. |
| 0:55.3 | Today, moments of being. |
| 0:58.9 | You've started the future long ago, |
| 1:01.3 | but every moment, what we do now |
| 1:04.0 | may have some repercussions later on. |
| 1:06.8 | I hear the sound of breath |
| 1:08.8 | moving around me. |
| 1:11.2 | It's a very powerful breath that swells like a wind or a storm |
| 1:17.8 | that can pull off tree branches or rip off roofs. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm sat in my friend's spare room. My partner Johnny has been putting my daughter to bed next door and occasionally I've heard her singing and resisting. |
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