Someone to Watch Over Me
Short Cuts
BBC
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the first programme of this series of Short Cuts, Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries which peel back the curtain, peer into the darkness and look out at those who are watching us.
By turns delightful and unsettling, today's audio adventures include the secret games teachers play when they're invigilating exams, a photographer whose ambition is to capture 'still lives' of people unawares in their homes at night, and a glimpse of the devices you can buy to spy on those supposedly close to you.
The items featured in the programme are:
Someone to Watch Over Me Produced by Sara Parker
Stand by Me Produced by Benjamin Partridge
I Was Bruce Lee Produced by Leo Hornak
Cracking the Love Code Produced by Bob Carlson
All Eyes on Us Produced by Steve Urquhart
She Sees Your Every Move Produced by Jonathan Mitchell
Produced by Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.6 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:35.7 | I remember one night, they'd drive up to this one house and I had my camera on my seat strapped in |
| 0:48.3 | focused on a particular window and I was sitting in front of it |
| 0:54.9 | and I must have been there |
| 0:55.9 | you know a while maybe half hour |
| 0:58.8 | I watched for a long time |
| 1:03.0 | and I was fixing my camera |
| 1:06.3 | and checking everything |
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