The Hidden Part
Short Cuts
BBC
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about what remains hidden from view. A writer learns more than she would like about her lover's past conquests and a man wrestles with hyper-visibility as he walks home.
Everything, Nothing Featuring Laura Barton
Surveillance Produced by Derick Armah and Ivan d'Avoine
Into Shadow Featuring John Colverson Produced by Phil Smith
Curatorial team: 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. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:08.5 | I am Josie Long and I'm cloistered away in my little study in my top floor flat in Glasgow, |
| 0:15.0 | looking outside as the day finally ends and all around me is ensconced in shadow and also the streetlights |
| 0:23.7 | because I live in a city. |
| 0:29.4 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:40.3 | Briefing This is Shortcuts. Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:51.3 | Today, the hidden part. |
| 0:57.0 | You wanted to tell me everything, you said. |
| 1:02.5 | Their bodies, their peccadillos, preferences. |
| 1:08.5 | You told me of hotel rooms, text messages, a little light bondage. |
| 1:15.4 | So we don't want it in our consciousness. |
| 1:17.5 | It's not me. It doesn't belong to me. |
| 1:20.8 | It's not who I am. |
| 1:22.8 | We hate it in ourselves, which is why we suppress it into darkness into shadow. |
| 1:29.3 | Children still play and dream before they step into the beasts that this city can become. |
| 1:36.3 | Then encounter is mouthful of fangs. It's the end of a warm summer evening. |
| 1:56.0 | It's the end of a warm summer evening. |
| 2:00.0 | And the shadows are drawing closer |
| 2:02.3 | making the world around you smaller |
| 2:05.3 | and more intimate |
| 2:06.8 | enveloping you in a kind of |
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