Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries that go back to the start. The musician Lucinda Chua traces the journey of a rose, a connection is forged between a young woman now and a trapeze artist on New Year's Eve 1942, and a touching personal archive illuminates the journey of a word.
Muscles and Mysteries Produced by Teresa Kristoffersson
First Words Produced by Kalli Anderson Featuring the voices of Kalli's parents, Kathy Hunt and Lance Anderson, as well as Kalli's husband, Zack Finkelstein, and their two children, aged 12 and 8.
Reclaiming The Rose Produced, narrated and music by Lucinda Chua Chinese Narration by XiaoQiao Poetry in English and Chinese by He Sun
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. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello, I'm Josie Long and you're listening to the podcast of Shortcuts and as I've been |
| 0:10.4 | recording it this week has been some really, really intense storms battering us here in the UK, |
| 0:16.4 | particularly in Scotland. And I hope if you're listening, that you're okay. I hope if you've |
| 0:20.4 | got a garden, hasn't been wrecked. I think |
| 0:22.6 | of all the trees and the animals and the birds |
| 0:24.5 | and I feel for them so |
| 0:26.4 | deeply. And also |
| 0:28.6 | in local news, my daughter's |
| 0:30.4 | playhouse absolutely thrown |
| 0:32.6 | across the garden. We're lucky that it |
| 0:34.5 | didn't land in the close behind us |
| 0:36.5 | where there lives a very unfriendly dog. |
| 0:42.9 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:47.3 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:54.8 | Today, Roots. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm recording this in a brief gap between days of stormy weather. |
| 1:04.4 | This kind of secrets, they can travel down in the coming generations. |
| 1:11.6 | Yesterday on a train coming back to Glasgow, |
| 1:14.6 | what I saw were so many trees cracked, completely uprooted, |
| 1:20.6 | wrenched from the ground by the wind. |
| 1:23.6 | Things go so fast that you have present tense nostalgia. You're nostalgic for the current moment because you feel how fleeting they are. |
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