Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the tarot deck.
From an imagined reading with Madame Cinnamon Black in New Orleans to a card that helps two sisters understand each other.
Sylvia Plath and the Tarot Pack Featuring David Trinidad and Rebecca Tamás Produced by Alia Cassam
Shadow Work Produced by Ari Mejia
Three Cards Featuring Madame Cinnamon Black Produced by Cristal Duhaime Originally recorded for 48 Hour Party People, a travel podcast hosted by Brendan Francis Newnam Thanks to Mira Burt-Wintonick, Brendan Francis Newnam, Jackson Musker, Danielle Henderson and the Historic Voodoo Museum
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2020.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to Shortcuts. I'm Jacey Long, and today's episode is inspired by Tarot. |
| 0:11.1 | If it's something you're interested in already, great. If it's something you're wary of, |
| 0:15.1 | please don't let this put you off. It's a very interesting episode about poetry and emotion and thought. |
| 0:21.4 | If you have a deck, feel free to use it during this program. |
| 0:24.5 | If you don't, that's more than fair enough. |
| 0:26.8 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:32.3 | This is shortcuts from shuffling a very beautiful tarotoc. |
| 0:43.3 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. I'm going to cut the deck now. |
| 0:45.3 | Today, taro. |
| 0:47.3 | And the card I'm looking at is the six of pentacles, |
| 0:51.3 | which is six medallions, surrounded by butterflies at the base of a tree of the |
| 0:57.6 | flowers. |
| 0:59.5 | It's quite beautiful, really. |
| 1:02.2 | The card is about giving and receiving and sharing wealth and generosity and charity. |
| 1:07.8 | I feel like that's a good auger for this show. |
| 1:11.6 | I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome to our world. |
| 1:23.6 | I cannot ignore what lies underneath my surface, dormant and in pain. |
| 1:34.5 | As teenagers, my best friend and I were very preoccupied by things that you might deem a cult. |
| 1:41.5 | And this provoked, for a short time, a kind of satanic panic at our girls' grammar |
| 1:46.5 | school. Things like tarot cards and Ouija boards and sending off for booklets about astral |
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