Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about leaving places behind. From zip wiring over the Iron Curtain, to reflecting on lost connections with your country of origin and a poem remembering the thousands of people lost to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Zip Wire Featuring Daniel Pohl Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
half / half Featuring Hannah Kendaru, Lou Kendaru and Remi Kendaru Co-created by Lou and Hannah Kendaru. Produced by Lou Kendaru First developed for Future Currents hosted by The Doing Group
Seed of the Fruit Featuring Mark 'Mr T' Thompson Produced by Alan Hall With the voice of Cherise Hamilton-Stephenson Statistics from slavevoyages.org Commissioned by the National Maritime Museum for UNESCO’s International Day for the Rembrance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Jacey Long. |
| 0:09.4 | I hope this finds you well. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm sat looking at a very small little patch of woodland, |
| 0:14.7 | and I've seen so many absolutely juicy looking birds coming in and out. |
| 0:20.3 | Not that I'm sort of wanting to eat them, but they just all look so plump. |
| 0:24.1 | I don't know what it is about this patch of woodland. |
| 0:26.5 | I've seen a big brown bird. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't even know what it was. |
| 0:30.4 | I've seen tits. |
| 0:31.7 | Oh, my fair share of tits. |
| 0:34.3 | Sorry, you can't help but make innuendos, but there have been several tits. |
| 0:37.8 | And I've also seen little sparrows as well. The show today is about departures, in particular |
| 0:44.4 | about moving countries for all kinds of different reasons and features a genuine story of |
| 0:50.9 | a caper, which is always exciting. |
| 0:59.0 | This is shortcups. |
| 1:06.0 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. Today, the departure. |
| 1:14.3 | I felt like we've ever seen these fairy tales when the princess is in this castle |
| 1:20.0 | and she goes into a mirror and she goes into absolutely another world. |
| 1:25.8 | That's exactly how I felt. |
| 1:28.2 | We're culturally British and yet we are not perceived in that way. |
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