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Short Cuts

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Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Josie Long presents short Yuletide documentaries and festive audio adventures.

Two women discover their families are tied by the true story behind the classic film It’s A Wonderful Life, and a Ukrainian singing group in Canada remembers loved ones through Christmas songs as war continues in their homeland.

Also, a profile on Father Christmas and a nativity criticism session with its young cast.

Profile on Father Christmas Featuring Raymond Briggs and Janet Cohen First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1981

Seneca Falls Featuring Elizabeth Kress and Kathy Williamson Produced by Andrea Rangecroft

Nativity Criticism Featuring Harold Williamson and children from two schools in Sunderland Produced by Michael Barton From an episode of Children Talking called The Spirit of Christmas. First broadcast on Boxing Day 1963.

Can We Come Carol? Featuring Natalia Telentso The singers are Eli Camilo, Natalia, Carlos, Olga, Vera, Olessia, Briga, Anna and Mira from the Montreal Koliada group that was co-founded by Natalia and Eli. Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick

Produced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, I'm Jocely Long. Welcome to the Christmas podcast version of Shortcuts. Today's episode is a treat coming out just pre-Christmas to help get you into the festive mood, get you into the Christmas spirit.
0:21.3	I hope there are no Grinchers out there.
0:23.2	I hope there are no Scrooge's out there.
0:25.5	I hope you are all Bob Cratchits.
0:28.3	Having a good time.
0:29.6	Bob Cratchit after Scrooge has stopped being such a terrible miser.
0:34.6	Also, if there are any misers listening, please consider mending your ways.
0:39.7	If there are any ghosts of Christmas, past, present or future listening, good job. Please
0:44.9	torture more wealthy misers. Today's episode is starting with the voice of the author and
0:51.4	illustrator Raymond Briggs.
0:55.8	Well, I think he's a lonely old man, not married, living in the north of somewhere, north of the world.
1:04.3	Obviously, working class kind of job because he does a thing that's a cross between a milkman, a coalman, a sweep,
1:11.6	and a lorry driver, a long-distance lorry driver.
1:15.6	So he's obviously a fairly working-class bloke,
1:18.6	and must be fairly resourceful, I think, living alone, does his own cooking.
1:24.6	Very practical, I think.
1:26.6	Very businesslike. Do you base him on anyone?
1:31.0	Well, he's based on my father, my particular one, is based on my father, who was a milkman,
1:36.2	grumbling all the time, in a fairly comical way. How does Father Christmas's disillusioned show
1:42.7	and compare with your fathers? Well, I,'t so much disillusionment as being rather bored with the routine of doing it.
1:49.0	I mean, Christmas is a great thing for everyone else, but for him it's a routine job, which he has to do every year,
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