Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the caretakers who help our worlds to run and re-imagining the places we love.
The Reason That I'm Still Here Featuring Usnia Granger Produced by Michael Segalov
Caretaker Featuring Scottee and his mum Sarah
The Dustbin Man Cometh Produced by Ed Prosser
From Surface to Core Feat. Miriam González Produced by Ariana Martinez
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is me recording. Wait, wait, let's get in the studio. You'll be able to hear the |
| 0:06.9 | dramatic increase in sound quality now I'm in the studio. Hello, I'm J.C. Long. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. Today's episode is lovely. It's got three beautiful pieces. |
| 0:19.8 | And the first thing you're going to hear is Uznia |
| 0:23.1 | Granger, who's been a climate activist since her teens. She was speaking with the journalist Michael |
| 0:28.5 | Segelov and she's reflecting on what it means to keep going. When the act of caring for a planet |
| 0:33.7 | amidst the climate crisis feels so insurmountable oh my word and i completely completely |
| 0:41.2 | understand because i'm not really the best activist in the world but i think the most important |
| 0:49.5 | thing is to remember that when you feel exhausted other people't. So you can take a little breather, |
| 0:57.0 | other people will keep going and then you can jump back in at any time. Nothing is ever lost. |
| 1:02.1 | All you have to do is put one foot in front of the other. So I hope that's useful. The reason that I'm still here, I think a lot of people get stuck on hope, but taking the next right step is enough. |
| 1:32.3 | We don't have to have all the answers, but we're just going to try to do what's right. And if the problem is way too big, we're just going to take one step at a time. |
| 1:37.3 | And then also we're going to do it together. |
| 1:43.3 | That loneliness and that isolation and that frozen fear |
| 1:47.2 | is a lot less when you're holding on tight to people that you can trust |
| 1:53.7 | you can trust |
| 1:53.7 | the This is Shortcuts. |
| 2:08.6 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 2:23.3 | Today, the caretakers. |
| 2:28.3 | If you think about all the unpaid carers who have taken risks, all our NHS workers as well, who have taken risk because they care about |
| 2:37.0 | another individual, about another human being. |
| 2:39.0 | There's a mirror there, and now it's reflecting the sky and birds are flying through it, and they're reflected too. |
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