Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the days after a life-altering event and imagining better futures.
Three children look for the memory of their father on a baseball field, a resettled community wonders where they belong to and the writer Lola Olufemi offers experiments for imagining an alternative world.
Andromeda is a Baseball Diamond Produced by Ariel Mejia
Resettlement Featuring Geraldine Brown, Jeanette Brown, Linda Slade Byrne, Hana Deir and Cecil Penny. All took part in the Fisheries Household Resettlement Program in Placentia Bay. Produced by Rebecca Nolan
Experiments for the Day Before Yesterday’s Tomorrow Featuring Lola Olufemi Produced by Tej Adeleye
Programme image taken by Marilyn Marsh, courtesy of the Marine History Archive.
Curated by 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. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Jacey Long. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.5 | Today's episode is The Day After, which is all about the days after cataclysmic events |
| 0:13.7 | and about how actually the world is not going to end full stop, |
| 0:17.4 | and we have to keep going and keep pulling together. |
| 0:24.0 | Sadly, no references to the incredible apocalyptic film The Day After Tomorrow, but you know what? It's not about apocalypse. It's about |
| 0:30.4 | keeping going. So there we go. |
| 0:40.3 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:47.3 | Today, the day after. |
| 0:55.7 | Things can happen in life that feels so vast and so transformative that it's hard to imagine a future that lies beyond them. |
| 1:00.8 | But this show focuses on those tomorrows, |
| 1:04.5 | on the act of reimagining yourself in a world that feels forever changed. |
| 1:10.2 | Starting with a recording that was made the day before, |
| 1:13.6 | this is the audio artist Ariel Mejia's father. |
| 1:18.6 | Oh, hi, Hans, it's me. Just call and say hello and see how you doing? |
| 1:23.6 | I'm watching the White Sox game tonight. |
| 1:36.5 | This is the poetry of baseball by Adam Garfinkel. |
| 1:42.0 | Baseball is also more philosophical a game than sports defined by finite space and a ticking clock. |
| 1:50.7 | Baseball is infinite in time and space. |
| 1:58.6 | If a team is not ahead at the end of an inning, the game can, in theory, go on forever. |
| 2:06.6 | If a ball is put in play between the first and third baselines, it is a fair ball that can, again, in theory, roll all the way to and beyond the Andromeda galaxy and still be a fair ball. |
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