Summary
Josie Long presents new short documentaries and audio adventures tied to the changing of the seasons.
Laura Barton offers an ode to the sticky heat of summer, we hear the beat of hummingbird wings in autumn and a love story tied to cold British winters and Colombia's 'spring city'.
On Music Overheard Produced by Phil Smith
Heat Featuring Laura Barton
Tiny Jalopy Produced by Michelle Macklem
Olga Produced by Phil Smith
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall,
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2018.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, hey, hello, sorry to interrupt. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Rohan Silver and I'm an entrepreneur. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Kamal Ahmed and I'm not. |
| 0:12.2 | We are launching a new podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | It is about entrepreneurs and it's for everybody. |
| 0:17.7 | It's called The Disruptors and it features the stories of people who've started |
| 0:21.6 | businesses, how they did what they did. Plenty of dark moments and plenty of inspirational |
| 0:26.9 | stories told by the people who experienced them. Subscribe to the Disruptors on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:42.6 | The first thing you're going to hear is the piano playing and poetry of the radio producer |
| 0:47.3 | and musician Phil Smith. |
| 0:49.3 | And in today's show, we're going to go through an entire year in 30 minutes. |
| 0:53.5 | It's going to be your absolute whirlwind, and we're starting with spring, |
| 0:57.3 | because why wouldn't you? |
| 0:58.5 | We're absolute classic bad boys. |
| 1:03.7 | Can I say that? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | In the spring, eyes open like piano lids, windows open. Here is where the piano is, entering the world and being at home at the same time. |
| 1:26.6 | Hearts open like distances, windows like to be. at the same time. |
| 1:28.3 | Hearts open like distances. |
| 1:30.3 | Windows like to be open in the spring when the piano is. |
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