Summary
Josie Long presents new short documentaries on searching for hope in the gathering darkness.
John McCarthy and Brian Keenan look back on a single act of human kindness that glows amid much darker memories, a late night conversation explores the hope bound up in playing the lottery, and we hear as voices fade in a Danish hospice.
The Gloaming Featuring John McCarthy and Brian Keenan Produced by Geoff Bird
Fading Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
The Lottery Produced by Phoebe Wang
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, hey, hello, sorry to interrupt. I'm Rohan Silver and I'm an entrepreneur. |
| 0:11.4 | And I'm Kamal Ahmed and I'm not. |
| 0:13.6 | We are launching a new podcast. It is about entrepreneurs and it's for everybody. |
| 0:19.1 | It's called The Disruptors and it features the stories of people who've started businesses, |
| 0:23.7 | how they did what they did. |
| 0:24.9 | Plenty of dark moments and plenty of inspirational stories told by the people who experienced |
| 0:32.1 | them. |
| 0:33.2 | Subscribe to The Disruptors on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello. Subscribe to The Disruptors on Bucy Sounds. Hello, welcome to the podcast for us in Shortcuts. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Jocely Long. |
| 0:44.5 | This episode is called The Gloming, and it's about the magic hour at the end of the day. |
| 0:49.4 | It's about darkness and twilight and fading. |
| 0:52.7 | And we recorded it in situ outside at the end of the day, |
| 0:56.6 | which would be impressive, were we not as close to the winter solstice? |
| 1:00.8 | So it was basically at 4pm. |
| 1:02.6 | It wasn't like a midnight record at all. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm standing in a sparse bit of woodland, |
| 1:10.4 | and it's the beginning of the end of the day |
| 1:12.6 | and the light is dimming, darkness is drawing in. |
| 1:16.6 | In the dark cell that they thought they were keeping us in, we had this beck and candle. |
| 1:23.6 | This is shortcuts. |
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