Summary
Josie Long presents fragmentary short documentaries about lost memories. Searching for a half-remembered past, shape-shifting, elusive personal histories, forgetting yourself and a story of societal forgetting.
Mother of Memory Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Seven Magic Mountains Featuring Laura Barton
The Trace of A Cloud In A Chest (extract) You can listen to the feature in full here: https://soundcloud.com/charles-parker-prize/the-trace-of-a-cloud-in-a-chest-by-weidong-lin-silver-2015 Produced by Weidong Lin
The Forgotten Produced by Karla Marie Sweet
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Jocely Lund and welcome to shortcuts. |
| 0:07.7 | Today's theme is about memory and about forgetting, |
| 0:10.9 | and I'm the perfect presenter for it because I have forgotten more things than I've ever remembered. |
| 0:16.2 | I've forgotten more things than you've had hot dinners. |
| 0:19.0 | I've forgotten so many things. And yet, I can still |
| 0:22.4 | remember every single mnemonic, little jingle, little song that I made up to revise for my GCC's. |
| 0:30.3 | How to calculate pressure in a liquid. height times density, times gravity. You'll never forget it now. So your body can begin to feel the same way it |
| 0:41.0 | does when you're drifting off to sleep. So you can just relax down and down and down. In fact, if you were |
| 0:50.4 | to allow your attention to flow around your body, then any part of your body that you let your attention rest upon |
| 0:56.1 | from more in a few moments, |
| 0:57.9 | you can almost feel it releasing, feel it relaxing even more. |
| 1:02.9 | Now your mind can follow down and down as well |
| 1:05.4 | into this inner world of thoughts, feelings and memories and expectations. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know. in a world of thoughts, feelings and memories and expectations. |
| 1:17.6 | I don't know whether this is a memory or a dream. This is shortcuts. |
| 1:19.6 | Drifting away, particle by particle, until I stood empty. |
| 1:23.6 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:29.9 | Shed Alzheimer's at the time, which we didn't know about. The husband said, who was it? |
| 1:33.9 | And she said, oh, it's Clive, just like as a matter of fact. I've been away. |
| 1:38.8 | Today, the forgetting. |
| 1:51.3 | Yeah. The forgetting. Our first story was made for us by the Danish radio producer Nana Haga Christensen. |
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