Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the colour red. A redhead in a crowd of redheads, exploring notes of red on the piano, and a nation’s relationship with the colour red.
Roodharigendag (Redhead days) Featuring Shelby Vittek Produced by Gaby Caplan and Ellie Lightfoot
The Little Red Piano Featuring Duncan Honeybourne Produced by Flora Zajicek
Our home on native land Produced by Kalli Anderson The painting referred to in this feature is The Scream by Cree artist Kent Monkman. This piece includes short excerpts from news reports from the CBC, APTN News, CityNews, CTV, CP24, Global News and 680 News. It also includes the voices of Bob Paulson, Chief Allan Adam, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Cindy Blackstock. The music is Land Back by The Halluci Nation.
Photo credit: Birgitta Honeybourne
Curated by Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall Produced by Andrea Rangecroft 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. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.3 | Today's episode is all about the colour red. |
| 0:11.1 | The People's Flag, of course. |
| 0:13.7 | A strawberry sauce, of course. |
| 0:16.6 | A lovely tomato, of course. |
| 0:20.3 | A big red bus, of course. Phone boxes, post boxes, of course. A big red bus, of course. |
| 0:22.4 | Phone boxes, post boxes, of course. |
| 0:26.9 | They're complicated, sometimes reclaimed, |
| 0:29.9 | sometimes unreclaimed St George Cross, of course. |
| 0:33.4 | Whatever red means to you personally, |
| 0:35.5 | we're exploring it thematically. |
| 0:37.0 | Music Whatever red means to you personally, we're exploring it thematically. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm imagining I'm stood in a completely red room. |
| 0:55.0 | A space that's got kind of velvety red wallpaper. |
| 1:02.0 | Blood-stained, newly installed, electric lights that flicker. |
| 1:09.0 | A kind of claustrophobia that's represented by red velvet everywhere. |
| 1:16.1 | I can't see it as a space that is gentle or relaxing. |
| 1:19.7 | You can see why rims are often painted white |
| 1:22.0 | to sort of just clear them out, reflect the light. |
| 1:26.0 | Whereas a red rim makes you think of the womb, a space that's safe, |
| 1:30.3 | but also intimately connected with the viscera of existence, you know, with blood, with a pulse. |
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