Summary
Short documentaries and adventures in sound about artworks and artists, presented by Josie Long. From an audio re-imagining of Bridget Riley to the work of a courtroom sketch artist.
The Mandjet A response to Shih-Li by Bridget Riley Produced by Sami El-Enany
Adipositivity Project Featuring Substantia Jones Produced by Ellie Lightfoot with sound design by Miles Mercer
Drawing From The Gallery Featuring Priscilla Coleman Produced by Ben Tulloh and Hunter Charlton
A Model Life Featuring Sue Tilley Produced by Alan Hall This interview was originally broadcast as part of the documentary Art Values in BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears
Curatorial team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall 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. |
| 0:08.0 | Today we are bringing you something which we know is not yet possible in the flesh at the time of recording. |
| 0:14.0 | We're bringing you a gallery tour. |
| 0:16.0 | You'll be seeing all kinds of beautiful works of art. |
| 0:19.0 | Don't, as I often do in galleries, get too excited and talk |
| 0:22.0 | too loud because there's a high chance that somebody will tell you off and you will find it |
| 0:26.0 | crushing. I hope you enjoy today's show. I've found it wonderful and glorious and empowering and |
| 0:34.5 | enlivening. Also, if you can, the show is about artists and works of art |
| 0:40.8 | and you can follow along at home looking at the pieces of art yourself. |
| 0:48.5 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:51.2 | This very bizarre thing of being most expensive women in the world. |
| 0:54.4 | It's like being compared to the Mona Lisa and it was like a bit weird in it. |
| 0:59.7 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:06.1 | And I did what I think, in my opinion, everybody does when they first get a digital camera. They start |
| 1:11.9 | taking naked pictures of themselves. Today, the gallery. Someone saw me doing little drawings |
| 1:19.3 | on my notepad and told the court usher, and she pulled me out of the court and scared the |
| 1:24.0 | hell out of me, really. I'm now going to give you a guided tour of the pictures which surround my desk. |
| 1:32.9 | Exhibit 3B, a signed photograph from my best friend that I framed, |
| 1:39.9 | that she did for me as a joke pretending that I was some kind of deranged fan. |
| 1:44.9 | A little orange horse from Sweden that my mom gave me as a child. |
| 1:49.7 | A sculpture of a frog. |
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