Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about remixing and reinventing the world.
Jonathan Zenti builds something new from undelivered audio projects, Scottee's grandad becomes an emerging artist and we hear reimagined whale song.
* Porn Whales Originally made for In The Dark Radio www.inthedarkradio.org Produced by Ed Prosser
* Apology Letter Produced by Jonathan Zenti
* No Need to Shout Featuring Scottee and Liam Gallagher Produced by Alia Cassam
* The Toilets at Home Are All Gender Neutral Produced by Arlie Adlington
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:13.3 | Do you want to just open it with a sound? |
| 0:15.2 | Do, do, da, do, da, do, da, no. |
| 0:18.2 | Hello, I'm Jacey Long and welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:22.1 | It's the last in our current series and we've decided we're going to mix it up a bit. |
| 0:26.8 | This whole episode is about reimaginings of things, remixings of things and I hope you enjoy it. This is Shortcuts |
| 0:48.3 | This is Shortcuts. Brief encounters |
| 0:59.9 | True stories |
| 1:03.8 | Radio adventures |
| 1:07.0 | and found sound. |
| 1:15.6 | Today, |
| 1:16.6 | Remix I have I had |
| 1:28.3 | I I hope that you're enjoying the calming marine sounds of whales calling out to one another. |
| 1:57.0 | They were put together by Ed Prosser, who at the time was watching a lot of blue planet. |
| 2:05.6 | But I do have to say this is something of a cruel audio trick, because whilst we are turning |
| 2:12.6 | the airwaves blue, it is absolutely not in the planetary sense. |
| 2:22.0 | And I'm aware that this program is broadcast in the afternoon, |
| 2:25.4 | so I'm just going to say that all of the sounds you've just enjoyed were culled from erotic videotapes. |
| 2:31.5 | And do you know what? |
| 2:32.9 | I hope that David Attenborough himself approves. |
| 2:40.0 | Everything can be changed and reimagined. |
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