Summary
A remnant from the Cold War becomes an accidental haven for wildlife, a poet and a tree surgeon search for the roots of a metaphor, and a musician searches for an anchor to home. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the ground beneath your feet.
Always Moving Cello performed by Joe Reynolds Engineered by Yuri Shibuichi Composed and produced by Tendertwin (Bilge Nur Yilmaz)
Memorial Landscape Featuring Kai Frobel Translator Jana Kosok Produced by Tom Phillips
Poet / Tree A conversation between Matthew Reid and Raymond Antrobus
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Josie Long. I'm me and this bird welcome you to the podcast of shortcuts. |
| 0:12.5 | I can tell you for sure. It's not a magpie. |
| 0:15.5 | Oh, oh, I see it. It's little. It's a small songbird. |
| 0:19.0 | I see you. Where are you going? |
| 0:22.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:25.8 | Oh! |
| 0:29.9 | Well, that was the end of that chat, but it was pretty excited. |
| 0:36.3 | Today's episode is about the soil, the earth and the things that grow in it. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm sitting in the communal gardens behind my flat in Glasgow. |
| 0:51.2 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:53.2 | It looks just about autumnal. Brief encounters, true stories, |
| 0:59.6 | radio adventures and found sound. I can hear the wind in the trees. The occasional little drop of |
| 1:07.8 | rain coming off the side of the flats. Today, the soil. |
| 1:14.4 | Coming here today, you know, there's concrete up into the sky and suddenly, almost miraculously, out of these pavements, there are these living things. |
| 1:25.1 | I remember living in fear. I remember as a child I had dreams |
| 1:29.4 | that Russian tanks would cross right across this border. |
| 1:34.9 | This monster of a border seemed to be constructed for eternity. |
| 1:40.6 | Memorial landscape is the term we use. |
| 1:43.8 | It's really a living ecological memorial. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm going to show you around the garden. |
| 1:54.0 | This I think could be a current bush, but I'm not totally sure. |
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