Nature Documentaries
Short Cuts
BBC
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Singing with whales, a cloud of bats and the ballad of a rare bird. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the natural world.
Whale Duet A version of this story first appeared on the podcast Sound Matters Interview by Tim Hinman Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Bats in the Attic Produced by Jessie Lawson
The Lord God Bird Originally broadcast in 2005 Produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of Long Haul Productions The song - Great God Bird - was written and performed by Sufjan Stevens To listen to the song in its entirety and to hear more Long Haul stories, go to www.longhaulpro.org
Production Team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall Producer: Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.1 | My name's Jacey Long. |
| 0:09.5 | Today's show is about nature documentaries. |
| 0:12.2 | It has some beautiful sounds of whales and bats and birds. |
| 0:16.5 | And I hope that it transports you to somewhere that you need to be. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm sat on a log in a little thicket of trees. |
| 0:26.2 | And on the floor around me are bin bags, wet wipes and beer cans. |
| 0:32.8 | Detritus from, I think, the saddest party you can imagine. |
| 0:36.5 | And then next to me really swaying in the breeze |
| 0:39.0 | is a little sapling. |
| 0:40.6 | And it's such a contrast, hearing the sound of the wind and the leaves. |
| 0:44.1 | Seeing this little tree swaying, hearing the birds, |
| 0:47.2 | and then looking down and being like, |
| 0:48.7 | oh yes, I'm not anywhere. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm in London. |
| 0:53.9 | So the noise will go... |
| 0:56.2 | Squeak. |
| 0:58.2 | I really say just one tone and then the first... |
| 1:03.0 | Because this is shortcuts. |
| 1:08.6 | That's my perfect, flawless David Attenborough impression. |
| 1:13.6 | We are in the filterbeds Nature Reserve in East London. |
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