Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures which emerge from dreams, hidden places and the afterlife.
The Dreams (Extract) From Inventions for Radio by Barry Bermange and Delia Derbyshire Originally broadcast on the BBC in 1964
Zero Fixation Points Produced by Nada Smiljanic Location production by Avi Varma Archive courtesy of Rowan Farrell Featuring Professor Bridget Anderson and Dr Travis Van Isacker from the University of Bristol
The Quiet Violence of Dreams Produced by Kagiso Mnisi
Fragments Produced by Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowall 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. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, welcome to Shortcuts. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Jacey Long. |
| 0:07.8 | Today, The Invisible, and free with this podcast as a one-off, one-time issue, as you download it, you will receive an invisible gift. |
| 0:18.0 | I can't tell you what it is, I can't see it, but you'll know what it is. You're |
| 0:22.1 | welcome. |
| 0:25.6 | This is Shortcuts. Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:37.4 | Suddenly I'm falling. |
| 0:39.2 | Today, I'm falling upright. |
| 0:42.5 | The invisible. |
| 0:44.3 | It's quite a ghostly place, I think. |
| 0:47.0 | There's a kind of ghostly presence here. |
| 0:50.2 | These dreams, dreams I cannot escape. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to start today by tumbling deep into a radio dream. |
| 1:07.0 | This was first broadcast on the BBC in January 1964. |
| 1:13.6 | Suddenly I'm falling. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm falling upright. |
| 1:21.6 | I was falling and twisting. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm falling upright. |
| 1:28.3 | Slow, twist, head over, feet, stretching out, increasing in speed. |
| 1:49.6 | Mouth open wide, but no sound. |
| 1:54.6 | It's in space. |
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