Summary
Trying to capture a lost homeland on tape, reclaiming urban landscapes through the sound of skateboarding, and the noise that is one of the great equalisers of the world. Short documentaries that ripple through space - presented by Josie Long.
Sonic Skateboarding Produced by Alice Boyd and Tom Critchley Featuring Ben Dixon, Tom Critchley, Hannah, Zip and Bleu Music composed by Ben Dixon
Nat’s Apartment Written and produced by Emma-Lee Moss Music by Emma-Lee Moss and Nata Lee Hahn
Love in the Time of Flatulence Featuring Alison Downham Moore, Noam Osband, Zebulon Osband and Dahlia Osband Written and produced by Noam Osband
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Jacey Long, and today's episode is about waves of sound, but has become a deeply nostalgic 90s episode for me. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm talking skaters. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm talking recording your friends tapes with, in my case, |
| 0:23.6 | a talk boy, if you can imagine the cachet of owning that object and the mid-1990s. So please, |
| 0:30.0 | let's all go analog. I hope you're listening to this podcast on a CD or better still a minidisc |
| 0:36.2 | and you can really lean in to the atmosphere. |
| 0:43.6 | This is Shortcuts. Brief encounters, true stories. What does it sound like when the plane takes |
| 0:50.9 | on? Radio adventures and Found Sound. |
| 0:57.7 | Today, sound waves. |
| 1:02.3 | Sometimes that city can make so much noise. |
| 1:06.3 | You need to make your own sounds to find your place within that. |
| 1:11.4 | And so he learnt how to make very nuanced sounds. |
| 1:15.5 | He could make letters of the alphabet. |
| 1:18.5 | I became obsessed with getting to know Hong Kong again, |
| 1:22.0 | walking the city with my field recorder, |
| 1:24.5 | capturing its sounds to keep in a hard drive, |
| 1:27.3 | as though this would help me recover a missing |
| 1:29.0 | piece of myself. |
| 1:34.1 | Sound waves all around us, completely unseen, bouncing of every single thing. |
| 1:46.0 | I really like the idea that somehow you'd be able, for a moment, to see them all, |
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