Short Cuts: Drawn Onward

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As a treat for the first palindrome date of the calendar year 2024, 4/2/24, (for those who use U.S. formatting of dates anyway), we are releasing a special audio palindrome. A piece that plays the same forward and backward. It’s called “Drawn Onward” and it comes from the producers Alan Goffinski and Sarita Bhatt. It originally aired on the wonderful BBC show Short Cuts which curates fresh, experimental, adventurous audio journeys. Special thanks to Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt, Josie Long, Eleanor McDowall, BBC Short Cuts EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt,with help from - Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt Original music and sound design contributed by - Alan Goffinski EPISODE CITATIONS: Articles - BBC Short Cuts full episode: Meeting Myself Coming Back Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected]. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:00.0	Oh, wait, you're listening.
0:03.0	Okay.
0:04.0	All right.
0:05.0	Okay.
0:06.0	Okay.
0:07.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.0	Radio.
0:12.0	From WNY...
0:13.0	WNY...
0:14.0	C.
0:15.0	See?
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:17.0	Hello.
0:20.0	It's Lulu.
0:22.0	This is Radio Lab and I'm whispering because I have a secret for you, which is that if you are
0:27.7	listening to this, on the day we released it, April 2nd, 2024, then you may not realize it, but you are currently standing
0:36.8	in the middle of a secret holiday?
0:40.8	4-2-4, 4-2-24. 4-2-4.
0:45.0	It is the first palindrome date of the calendar year.
0:51.0	Yeah! And apparently this month we've got a bunch of them.
0:56.3	Four 20, 24 is also a palindrome.
0:59.6	421, 24, 422, 24, actually all the 20s.
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