Summary
Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries in which people hurl themselves into the air with the hope of taking flight.
We glide through the air, fall into the sea and explore grand leaps of the imagination, which cross the border between dreaming and reality.
From comedian Holly Walsh's tale of hurtling off the edge of a pier in a handmade helicopter, through to the story of a trapeze artist balancing on the edge of falling as he casts himself upwards.
The items featured in the programme are:
The Fall Featuring Charlie Morley
Sky Boy Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
Falling for Rambo Featuring Holly Walsh Produced by Benjamin Partridge
The Dreamers Featuring Charlie Morley
Looking Up Originally broadcast in 'Space' from Radiolab http://www.radiolab.org
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. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm sort of expecting that every week now. So I'm standing on the edge of this precipice, and I'm looking down with this feeling |
| 0:47.0 | of vertigo. |
| 0:50.0 | My feet slip, rocks fall, and I'm plummeting to the ground. |
| 0:58.0 | I think I'm going to die. |
| 1:10.0 | First thing I think of is lucid dreaming, as if, if this was a dream, how could I get out of it the moment I have that I |
| 1:13.3 | realized I am in the dream gravity stops boom and I'm paused in midair the |
| 1:21.7 | realization gave me the option to fall or to float or to fly. |
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