Summary
Lying on your back and gazing at the stars in Australia, viewing the world through the eyes of a little dog and venturing outside your home - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the outside world.
Emu in the Sky Featuring Krystal DeNapoli Produced by Krystal DeNapoli, Michelle Macklem, and Zoe Tennant
Paws for Thought (featuring Little Oblong) Produced by Phil Smith
The Outside Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, welcome to Shortcuts, the podcast version. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Jacey Long. I'm recording this outside at 11pm. |
| 0:14.5 | The only time I've been outside in the evening since the start of March, |
| 0:19.6 | the middle of March, but still, it's the only time I've |
| 0:22.5 | been outside in the evening. I can't believe I'm here. The stories in today's program are beautiful |
| 0:27.7 | and moving and silly. So I hope you enjoy them. And I also hope that it gives you some |
| 0:35.2 | escape if you're feeling somewhat stuck in one place at the moment. |
| 0:42.2 | This is the first time since before the lockdown, before the pandemic, |
| 0:47.9 | that I've been outside at night. |
| 0:53.6 | It's so calm. This is shortcuts. I'm looking out over the marshes and the nature |
| 1:04.3 | reserve near where I live. Brief encounters and I can't see anyone else. True stories. Radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:14.5 | I can hear faint traffic, |
| 1:16.8 | but it's not louder than the wind. |
| 1:20.0 | And in the distance, |
| 1:21.1 | there's the twinkling lights of the flats |
| 1:23.1 | on the other side of the river. |
| 1:26.1 | Today, the outside. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm lifting my head up to look at the stars |
| 1:36.4 | and I have never seen a more cloudy, polluted sky. |
| 1:41.8 | There's nothing but a kind of glowing red fog. So I'm going to transfer you |
| 1:50.0 | into the capable hands of Crystal Dinappoli, an indigenous astronomer looking up at the stars |
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