Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about mothers and motherhood.
We hear a story of a recurrent dream about searching for an absent mother, Heather O'Neill delves into the ways her mother and her own experience of motherhood have threaded through her life, and the writer Nikesh Shukla reflects on ways to remember a mother you've lost.
Fragments Of My Mother Written and read by Nikesh Shukla
Motherhood, a short story Featuring Heather O'Neill Produced by Sarah Cuddon
Call Me Mother Featuring Raven Mandella Produced by Suzie McCarthy
Mother, Unknown Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft 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. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.8 | Today's episode is about motherhood, about which I'm an expert. |
| 0:12.4 | It's a wonderful episode full of loving and beautiful and some quite fun things too. |
| 0:21.6 | This is Shortcuts. This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:25.6 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:33.6 | Today, motherhood. |
| 0:38.7 | It's funny to be making this show hiding, essentially, in my office, from my daughter. |
| 0:43.8 | So I'm going to give you a cameo from my daughter right now. |
| 0:47.6 | I want to just quickly ask you a question. |
| 0:50.3 | It's a one on there? |
| 0:51.7 | It's a microphone so you can talk into it. |
| 0:54.9 | Am I your mummy? |
| 0:56.1 | Yes. |
| 0:57.0 | What do you think of your mummy? |
| 0:58.6 | It's so fluffy. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, the microphone is fluffy, isn't it? |
| 1:02.6 | Bubba, what do you think of your mummy? |
| 1:04.6 | Good. |
| 1:05.5 | Good. |
| 1:06.4 | Oh, am I giving you a cuddle? |
| 1:09.6 | I see you later. |
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