Summary
Returning to an old flame, a snapshot of a break-up and a cascade of crushes - Josie Long presents short romantic documentaries about falling in and out of love.
Crushing Produced by Erisa Apantaku
We've Only Just Begun Featuring Ben Bryant and Elizabeth Hepburn Produced by Olivia Humphreys
Snapshot Featuring Scottee and Brian Teeling Produced by Scottee
Photo credit: Brian Teeling 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. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, listener, and welcome to Shortcuts Up Late, the late-night raunchy version of shortcuts. |
| 0:13.1 | This isn't the 3pm version. |
| 0:15.1 | This is the 11pm version, where everything is sexy. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Josie Long and I'm your sexy guide. I should say this isn't a |
| 0:24.6 | sexy version of the show but it is about love and romance and breakups so to some extent it's a |
| 0:31.9 | sexy party. S-E-X this word spells and fascination, is also wicked and also exciting. |
| 0:42.3 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:44.3 | I can remember on one occasion going to a party. |
| 0:47.3 | Brief encounters, true stories. |
| 0:50.1 | He saw a beautiful blonde and he vanished. |
| 0:58.0 | Radio adventures and he vanished. Radio Adventures and Found Sound. Well, in order to save face and to console myself, I took a charming young man back with me. |
| 1:05.0 | Today, the lovers. |
| 1:08.0 | In the small hours of the morning, it was already dawn. |
| 1:13.4 | Door opened, and in came a figure on all fours, |
| 1:19.5 | flapping an imaginary tale, |
| 1:22.2 | who sat up in a begging attitude beside my bed, |
| 1:26.7 | begging to be admitted, unaware of the fact that someone else was already there. |
| 1:32.3 | When the occupant, my bedfellow, appeared and looked over the top of the bed, |
| 1:40.3 | they found they knew each other. |
| 1:43.3 | They greeted each other affectionately. |
| 1:47.1 | And subsequently, we all had breakfast together in the most civilised way. |
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