Summary
Short documentaries and adventures in sound about quiz shows and queries for an uncertain future. Presented by Josie Long.
Google Oracle Produced by Annina Lehmann
The $64,000 Question Produced by Jodie Taylor from Fat Rat Films
The Interview Featuring Laura Barton
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam 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. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Josie Long, and welcome to Shortcuts. How are you today? |
| 0:09.5 | It's a question, but it's also a greeting, let's be real. People never want to know how you are. I'm all right. |
| 0:15.1 | Today's show is all about questions, a little bit about game shows, one of my favourite things in the world, |
| 0:21.5 | and also about grave historical injustices against my mother that I will avenge time and time again |
| 0:27.7 | via the medium of celebrity quizzes. |
| 0:33.8 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:36.0 | When will I meet my soul, mate? How can we help the environment? |
| 0:39.3 | When would you crack? |
| 0:40.3 | How? |
| 0:41.3 | How can we be lovers? |
| 0:43.3 | How can we see them? |
| 0:44.3 | Brief encounters, true story, |
| 0:47.3 | radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:50.3 | Today, the question. |
| 0:53.3 | Both hands come up to each side of her face when he says that. |
| 0:59.0 | It is not so much the question you ask as the space you leave around it. |
| 1:03.0 | She's looking up, thinking, searching her mind, could she have been wrong in that one answer? |
| 1:09.0 | And you can see the distress. |
| 1:19.6 | Is there anything more exciting than the thought of existential, personal questions about life, the universe and the future being cosmically answered for you? |
| 1:24.3 | The radio producer Anina Lehman decided to make use of the closest thing we have in the |
| 1:29.4 | modern world to the Oracle at Delphi. Google. What you're about to hear is a kind of found poem, |
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