Summary
Made up, mixed or invented. Josie Long presents not-so-long-radio sound paintings melting how we use words to make space for who we want to be.
A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening Produced by Darragh Amelia Featuring June Katz, Patricia Hirsch, poet Xiao Yue Shan, photographer Anna Francesca Jennings and historian Alma Simba.
The Magic of Waves Produced by Ève-Marie Bouché
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Produced by Axel Kacoutié Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, welcome to the podcast The Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Josie Long, and today is about how words can be taken apart and remade, |
| 0:14.3 | and in doing so, we can change the whole world. |
| 0:22.2 | Shortcuts, this is. |
| 0:25.1 | Sound found. |
| 0:27.1 | Stories true. |
| 0:28.9 | Encounters brief. |
| 0:30.8 | Adventures Radio. |
| 0:33.0 | Today, new word order. |
| 0:44.9 | What do you They, New White Order. What if I told you that I am able to bring the seed to Paris? |
| 0:50.5 | What were the three words that we established at the beginning of this conversation? |
| 0:53.2 | Honey on these flowers. |
| 0:55.1 | Honey on this fruit. |
| 0:58.7 | Sweetness for a body mind in search of liberation poems. |
| 1:02.6 | Painting, candle and table. |
| 1:03.4 | See? |
| 1:05.2 | Nothing wrong with her grain matter. |
| 1:08.8 | Because my microwave oven is magic. |
| 1:17.4 | Imagine if we call doors portals, |
| 1:21.6 | or decided to use acoustic motorbikes instead of bicycles. |
| 1:27.2 | Reframing your language is reframing your conception of the world and how you relate to it. |
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