Summary
Treetop antennas, a witness from history and a dialogue with a loudspeaker - Josie Long presents short radio docs and adventures in sound inspired by broadcasts into the ether.
From the forests of North Carolina, USA to the city of Kyiv, Ukraine - two ham radio enthusiasts seek each other out and a voice from the past prompts a dialogue on listening between a rabbi and a radio producer.
Treetop Radio Featuring Volodymyr Gurtovy and Thomas Witherspoon Produced by Cicely Fell
Here Comes Everybody Extract from Shake Rattle Roll - originally made for New American Radio Produced by Gregory Whitehead and Dan Lander www.somewhere.org
Mattie's Broadcast Produced by Veronica Simmonds Featuring music from Alphabet of Wrongdoing by Cantor/Composer/Vocalist Daniela Gesundheit
Curated by 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. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.8 | It's the first episode of a new series. |
| 0:11.1 | I am so thrilled to be back. |
| 0:13.0 | Today's program has such beauty, so much travelling in time and space. |
| 0:18.6 | I think it's a really lovely show and I really hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:21.5 | And how very wonderful to start our new series diving into celebrating and considering the radio, |
| 0:29.7 | even though obviously you're listening to the podcast version, which technically is a cousin to radio, obviously. |
| 0:35.2 | But still, nice to think about radios from time to time, you podcast friends. |
| 0:43.6 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:47.3 | Brief Encounters, True Stories, Radio Adventures, and Found Sound. |
| 0:54.1 | The little things that allow us to feel in touch with another world. |
| 0:59.7 | Today, communication is community. |
| 1:02.8 | Radio. |
| 1:05.6 | Deep listening will not comfort you. |
| 1:10.1 | The technology of transmission. The technology of transmission. |
| 1:11.8 | The technology of transmission. |
| 1:13.3 | A radio show about the radio on the radio. |
| 1:17.3 | The promise of one world. |
| 1:18.7 | The promise of one world. |
| 1:20.6 | Made whole. |
| 1:21.9 | Made whole. |
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