Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries about portals and gateways. A safe passage into the world, a scent which can take you somewhere else and a swim in the moonlight to heal a broken heart.
Eider Produced by Rikke Houd
Portals Featuring Courtney Rafuse Produced by Aliya Pabani
To the Moon Featuring Marta Medvesek Produced by Marta Medvesek and Phoebe McIndoe
Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié 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 Jacey Long. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.8 | Today's episode is all about portals to imaginary and unusual worlds. |
| 0:14.2 | And disappointingly, none of it is about doors. |
| 0:17.9 | And I really feel like we missed a trick. |
| 0:19.9 | So often with shortcuts, we'll do something very |
| 0:21.8 | metaphorical and unusual exploring a theme. Where are the literal shows? I want a show just about doors. |
| 0:29.2 | I could do your show about doors. Oh, what's this old door locked in an abandoned warehouse? We investigate. |
| 0:36.7 | What's this tiny fairy door in a wood? |
| 0:39.3 | We investigate. |
| 0:40.4 | What was that door sound just then? |
| 0:42.3 | My partner slamming a door, we investigate. |
| 0:45.0 | Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy our beautiful program, which I love. Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. |
| 1:05.0 | Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. |
| 1:11.6 | How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, |
| 1:16.6 | some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? |
| 1:22.6 | Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. |
| 1:26.6 | How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? |
| 1:30.3 | Perhaps 20. |
| 1:32.3 | And yet it all seems limitless. An old song begins. |
| 1:51.6 | This is shortcuts. |
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