Summary
A sibling faces an unfair accusation of teen pop vandalism, an academic conducts a study into missing forks and three friends search for the right note. Josie Long presents short documentaries about small and petty victories.
For Fork's Sake Produced by Mike Williams
Good Company Produced by Jesse Lawson
The Gouging Produced by Steven Jackson Original music by Steven Jackson and Cue Shop, a music library and scoring co-op
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to Shortcuts. I'm Josie Long, and this episode is about people for whom, when something gets stuck in their craw, they cannot rest until they remove it. |
| 0:17.5 | It's about oysters being irritated enough, even a grain of sand that they have to create a |
| 0:23.9 | pile. This is shortcuts, brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:36.9 | Today, small victories. |
| 0:40.1 | Before we go any further, I would like to request that you put my voice through one of those voice transformer filters, if you don't mind. |
| 0:46.9 | Like they have in documentaries about drug dealers and stuff. |
| 0:49.9 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:50.6 | All right, cool. |
| 0:51.7 | Do you think that I would be in the demographic of somebody who would take a fork and not bring |
| 0:55.8 | it back? |
| 0:56.4 | Okay, wait, let's just have a pauser. |
| 0:58.8 | Yes. |
| 0:59.7 | Oh, do you think we're right? |
| 1:02.6 | But now that I know you're such a interesting and community-minded person, I think |
| 1:08.6 | probably you might remember to bring your fork back. |
| 1:18.3 | It's not necessarily the big events that determine the texture of our lives. |
| 1:24.6 | Little details, small pleasures, everyday objects can have a disproportionate power over us. |
| 1:32.7 | As T.S. Eliot once wrote, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
| 1:37.8 | But as the poet Alanis Morissette remarked, what if you had 10,000 spoons when all you needed was a knife? |
| 1:48.3 | And what? |
| 1:49.8 | And this is where this introduction is about to become relevant to the thing you're about to hear. |
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