Summary
The horror of renting, childhood pranks and being a woman online - Josie Long presents terrifying short documentaries and adventures in sound.
Fictional horror stories begin to creep into a writer's real life as she finds herself followed across the internet by an anonymous poster. Two young women discover their perfect new rental property marred by one small flaw - a man secretly living in their basement. And three brothers do battle in a home filled with tales of ghost stories and the sound of old horror movies.
Thump Thump Thump Produced by Chris Attaway A version of this story was first created for KCRW's 24 hour Radio Race
The Brothers and the Banshees Produced by Geoff Bird
The Antagonist Written and read by Nikita Gill Voiceover work by Tony Warmsley
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the new series of shortcuts. This is the podcast. I'm Josie Long, and I'm so thrilled because this is the first episode I'm recording in a new studio. |
| 0:26.2 | No more pandemic home recordings for me. |
| 0:27.9 | I found a new studio up the road from my flat on the south side of Glasgow in a very large, converted, quite quiet mansion just in the attic. It's a beautiful studio and they've |
| 0:40.9 | given it to me on the condition for free. They've given it to me for free on the condition that all |
| 0:46.9 | I have to do is record at midnight and then stay over afterwards. I'm like, guys, I've got two young |
| 0:51.9 | children. I relish the chance for an evening and a |
| 0:55.5 | night on my own. Of course I record overnight in your spooky mansion. Apparently, lots of |
| 1:00.6 | other radio full presenters have done it, but oddly, sort of not reported him for work since. But I am |
| 1:07.5 | really certain that I'm going to be the real kind of exception to that rule |
| 1:12.5 | because I love to record and I love... |
| 1:19.6 | Sorry, can you... |
| 1:21.6 | Could you hear that on the recording? |
| 1:28.3 | I can hear some... I think somebody... |
| 1:30.3 | Hello? |
| 1:31.3 | Is there some... |
| 1:32.3 | I'm going to have to go and investigate. |
| 1:46.0 | Sorry, just give me 10 seconds. |
| 1:48.0 | Is there somebody there? |
| 1:54.0 | Is there somebody there? |
| 1:56.0 | Hello? |
| 1:59.0 | Is there so... |
| 2:03.6 | Is it so... |
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