Summary
Josie Long presents visceral short documentaries and audio adventures about - or made to engage - the senses. From the taste of a soup nearly lost to a storm, to a collective kiss in.
Kiss Featuring Ted Brown Produced by Olivia Humphreys
Gow Gei Produced by Jess Ho and Michelle Macklem
Restless Texture Featuring Ajay Chandra and Trish Cummings Produced by Calum Perrin
Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Executive Producer: Zakia Sewell 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, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Josie Long, and today's episode is a feast for the senses. |
| 0:12.6 | And so I'm hoping that if you have the time as you listen to this podcast, |
| 0:15.9 | you can be smelling some coffee whilst drinking a very beautiful honeyed drink whilst lying on a soft |
| 0:26.8 | bed of leaves listening to birdsong and also this program you don't need the bird song thank you |
| 0:33.0 | this is short This is Shortcuts |
| 0:42.1 | Brief Encounters, True Stories, Radio Adventures and Found Sound. |
| 0:52.6 | And I remembered thinking about that guy and that kiss all the way home. |
| 0:58.4 | Today, sensory. |
| 1:04.4 | And here we are 50 years later and it's still one of the outstanding moments of my life. |
| 1:11.2 | Our peer has written the birthdays of every single one of his plans. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah, 17th year 1st, it's said, |
| 1:18.5 | so there's Goji, |
| 1:20.9 | sweet potato leaves, |
| 1:23.2 | and chilies. |
| 1:25.1 | And now I'm still goate-koye, |
| 1:26.9 | glass, metal, sand, cool, smooth fabrics. |
| 1:32.9 | Itchy wall. |
| 1:34.6 | The sort of edges of my fingertips. |
| 1:38.2 | Velvet. |
| 1:40.8 | Today's episode is all about sensations. |
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