Summary
A shared experience of sonic joy crosses over the boundary of a prison wall, a conversation across generations explores being alive to the present moment, and an audio artwork from the archives plunges a listener into the sensation of time speeding up.
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that hold you in the present tense.
The Evenings of Certain Lives (two extracts) Produced by Barry Bermange Composition by Delia Derbyshire (Radiophonic Workshop)
Listening / Reminiscing by Lavender Suarez (via the producer Kalli Anderson)
In The Moment Produced by Amalie Sortland
Prisoncast! These sounds were originally recorded for Season 4 of the Motive Podcast from WBEZ, hosted by Shannon Heffernan WBEZ’s Lauren Frost and Alex Keefe headed up the original Prisoncast! broadcast, which was hosted by Ayana Contreras. But a big team of producers and editors came together to record and mix the sounds. This Short Cuts edit was created by Shannon Heffernan
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and 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. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, listeners. |
| 0:10.2 | Oh, 10 years of piano lessons, wasted, on me. |
| 0:14.9 | This is Josie Long, and you're listening to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:18.4 | Today's episode is about moments in time. |
| 0:21.7 | One moment in time. |
| 0:26.3 | It's about what it means to be in the present, I think. |
| 0:28.4 | For example, I'm currently distracted by the fact that I can see a rather large crow |
| 0:32.9 | really high up in a tree pecking on a very flimsy branch. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:41.3 | A collection of voices recorded from life. |
| 0:44.0 | Brief encounters. |
| 0:45.7 | True stories. |
| 0:47.2 | Radio adventures. |
| 0:48.7 | And found sound. |
| 0:52.2 | Today, present tense. The memory of what you wear is beginning to fade. You want to know how I am. |
| 1:01.6 | Gently snap your fingers next to your ears to bring you back to the present time. |
| 1:12.8 | Radio can be a kind of haunting, |
| 1:16.9 | recordings of people's unfolding present moments, |
| 1:19.3 | echoing into an unknown future. |
| 1:29.3 | What is life really like at the point where old age begins? We're going to start in 1965 with an extract from a documentary about ageing. |
| 1:35.3 | And the memory of what you were is beginning to fade. |
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