Never Let Me Go
Short Cuts
BBC
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Love lost and found, a lingering goodbye and the after image of a loved one - Josie Long presents stories of holding on.
From the echoes of a partner that linger after their death to an extraordinary tale of love regained after fifty years apart.
Her Name Was Jean Featuring Dennis Vinar, Karen Lehmann Vinar and Jean Voxland Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
The Awkward Goodbye Produced by Duncan Cowles
After Image Featuring Dr Jacqueline Hayes Produced by Edward Lawrenson
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2018.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.4 | Hello, welcome back to shortcuts. |
| 0:06.1 | We've got a new series. |
| 0:07.6 | It's a new year. |
| 0:08.8 | It's new you, new us. |
| 0:11.2 | Everything is new. |
| 0:12.5 | And we're so happy to be back. |
| 0:14.5 | I hope you're enjoying 2018 thus far. |
| 0:18.8 | This first episode in the series is been released just around Valentine's Day, |
| 0:22.9 | that most controversial of holidays. You know, many people very cynical. I myself obviously |
| 0:29.1 | cannot get enough of it. And so a lot of the programme is themed around affairs of the heart, |
| 0:34.6 | around love and loving people, but also some of the programme is themed around awkward social encounters, |
| 0:42.0 | so there really is something for everyone. |
| 0:48.2 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:52.4 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:58.4 | Today, never let me go. |
| 1:01.2 | Asking you to marry me as like baseball, three strikes and you're out. |
| 1:05.5 | And I said, well, I have a different take on that. |
| 1:08.1 | Third time's a charm. |
| 1:09.6 | But I could get in there, the desire to see here for a second and then lose here again. |
| 1:14.6 | Even if it is an illusion, we need our illusion. |
| 1:19.8 | The first time I got my heartbroken, after a summer of intense grief, |
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