Summary
Josie Long draws her own image whilst presenting short documentaries about turning the camera lens or microphone on yourself.
A Private Ritual Written by Jess Bineth and Tilly Lawless Produced by Jess Bineth
Ghosts Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
How To Remember Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, welcome to Shortcuts. I'm Josie Long. I hope you're enjoying yourself. |
| 0:10.2 | Today's episode is about self-portraiture, and during it I've drawn two deeply unflattering portraits of myself. |
| 0:18.3 | I mean, one of which is horrific. |
| 0:23.9 | It's absolutely horrific. |
| 0:25.1 | Oh my God. |
| 0:27.0 | And one of them is just not very attractive. |
| 0:27.7 | Fine. |
| 0:30.3 | Compared to the monster. |
| 0:35.0 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:37.5 | So when did things start to change? |
| 0:43.2 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:47.9 | My body. Public property. My body. The play thing. |
| 0:51.2 | Today, self-portrait. |
| 0:59.2 | This is how you find yourself in a game you never asked to play in a hall of mirrors where you see them more than you see you. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm settling down into my dining room in Edinburgh because if you don't live in London you can have a dining room and a living room. |
| 1:13.6 | And I've got some art supplies. I've got a series of pencils. |
| 1:15.8 | I've opted for 2B because I'm basic. |
| 1:19.8 | And I'm about to sketch a portrait of myself. |
| 1:24.0 | But I'm worried it's not an entirely flattering one. |
| 1:32.9 | My style often gets talked about like it's outsider art. I mean, I see that's a great compliment. That's the sort of art I really like, but I think it's not intended as such. I mean, |
| 1:39.0 | I have made an abominable start to this. I have two eyes at completely different levels on the page. |
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