Summary
From rally car driving to the healing power of climbing - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about sport, exercise and competition.
Go Faster Featuring Rosemary Smith Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Climb When Ready Featuring Cassius Adair and Martha Bennett Produced by Arlie Adlington Music credit: Negentropy by Chad Crouch
That's It Featuring recordings from The Sound of Sport Produced by Bus Crush
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, I'm Asma Mir. Before you listen to your podcast, I'd like to remind you about the Radio |
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| 0:55.5 | Home starts here. |
| 0:58.9 | Hello, welcome to Shortcuts. |
| 1:05.9 | Today's Shortcuts is on the theme of sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, lads, lads. |
| 1:07.8 | Obviously that's very silly. |
| 1:09.5 | Smash the gender binary. |
| 1:11.9 | Sports, sports, sports, sports. Everyone does sports. |
| 1:25.9 | The only reason I said masculine sport is because there's a very, very funny song by the Bonzo Dog Diedar band called Sport, Sport, Sport, Masculin' Sport, about all these men in the Bonzo Dog Dudar band who were forced into doing sport by brutish schoolmasters in the 50s. |
| 1:29.1 | But it is on the theme of sports. And commemorate that I have been running for the first time in three years I'm going to do some squats |
| 1:35.0 | that was one two three oh god I've got to do ten five I'm standing on Walthamstow Marshes, |
| 1:45.5 | which is a little island in the middle of London |
| 1:49.0 | that feels not in London. |
| 1:51.0 | You can see cows, you can hear a man whistling to his sheep dog. |
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