Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding tenderness. Conversations with cats, the sound of a piano drifts through the night and a memory of old, lost love.
Cat Chat Produced by Danny Greenwald
The Piano Produced by Sofia Saldanha Originally made for Centro de Dramaturgia e Argumento (CeDA) and Antena 2
Marianne Marianne Ihlen interview recorded by Alan Hall Originally broadcast in the BBC Radio 4 documentary Leonard and Marianne Jan Christian Mollestad was talking on CBC's 'As It Happens' www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens
Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. I hope you're very well. Today's podcast is about tenderness. |
| 0:13.1 | Try a little tenderness. Of course, you'll remember as the song that my mum once sang |
| 0:17.5 | at a parent-teacher association fundraising concert in about 1999 and you'll be right yes she may be |
| 0:26.4 | weary women do get weary wearing that old shabbit dress sadly doesn't feature in the program but |
| 0:35.2 | I hope that was enough for you and I also hope it was under 30 seconds so that we don't have to license the piece of music. |
| 0:41.4 | Today's episode is about tenderness, something which is so important and such a beautiful practice on a small scale in your life. |
| 0:55.0 | Music on a small scale in your life. You don't lose your love. You lose your lover, you lose your husband, |
| 1:10.0 | you lose your friend, but you don't lose the love you have. |
| 1:13.2 | This is shortcuts. |
| 1:15.7 | That feeling, that energy and that love will never die. |
| 1:21.0 | Not in me. |
| 1:23.9 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 1:30.3 | I remember watching you every morning have this sweet, tender time, |
| 1:38.3 | a time when like the rest of the day felt so terrible. |
| 1:42.3 | Today, tenderness. |
| 1:46.0 | Every night I'd fall asleep to its music. |
| 1:51.0 | Sometimes the sound of the rain about paying attention to the details. |
| 2:14.5 | In her book, Such a Fun Age, the author Kylie Reid describes looking after young children well |
| 2:20.7 | as paying them your exquisite attention, taking tender care to being the fullest and most |
| 2:29.0 | enthusiastic listener to what they want to say and do. |
| 2:34.5 | We're going to start today by travelling back to 2020, which I know nobody wants to do. |
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