Summary
Listening to the melodies in auctioneer school, reimagining the sound in your ears and a twilight audio-experience which takes you back in time. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by unusual sound worlds.
The Auctioneer (Excerpt) Originally produced by Ned Sublette for New American Radio somewhere.org
Accompaniment for Ever-Present Sounds Composed by Sami El-Enany
Flying Fox Featuring Lawrence Pope Produced by Thomas Phillips
Photo credit: Doug Gimesy
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. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.8 | My name is Jacey Long, and here is a list of some of my absolute favourite sounds. |
| 0:13.8 | I love a sound of a river nearby. |
| 0:16.0 | I love a sound of a very loud river going quite shallow over a lot of stones. |
| 0:22.2 | I love the sound of one heavy stone falling into water like blop. |
| 0:26.5 | That's like blop. |
| 0:28.5 | I love the sound of certain farts, not ones that are gross or vulgar, |
| 0:33.1 | but just some that are a little bit more like a toot. |
| 0:35.5 | Like, that's a great noise. |
| 0:38.3 | Oh, I like the sound of a choir in a cathedral. |
| 0:41.6 | Come on. |
| 0:42.6 | The human voice, beautiful in a cathedral where it was built to glorify. |
| 0:47.1 | And I love the sound of shortcuts on BBC Radio 4 or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:53.7 | Music on BBC Radio 4 or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:07.2 | So the sun has gone below the horizon. |
| 1:10.5 | This is shortcuts. |
| 1:16.1 | And then the entire camp will be awake. |
| 1:19.3 | It's a bit like surround sound. |
| 1:26.3 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. Today, |
| 1:29.3 | sound effects. |
| 1:31.3 | We're going to Backboard, two to half, 75, 75, 3, 3.4. |
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