Through the Looking Glass

Short Cuts

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A private empty gravel lot transforms into a community beach in the pandemic and an invitation to step inside a work of art - Josie Long presents short documentaries about worlds turned upside down.

Bloordale Beach Feat. Shari Kasman Produced by Sarah Melton With music from Pop Plug & Canada Katana and Catjam

Portals Featuring Cassi Namoda Originally produced for Shade Podcast's series Interludes. Conceptualised by Executive Producer, Lou Mensah and created by Audio Artist, Axel Kacoutié Shade Podcast - https://pod.link/1469562537

FIELDS Original music by Ariana Martinez Produced by Ariana Martinez

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft 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.
0:05.0	Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts.
0:08.7	My name's Josie Long, and today we have French Defiance.
0:15.5	I started a list that I couldn't finish, so I'll start that again.
0:18.8	Hello, I'm Josie Long and welcome to Shortcuts.
0:21.7	Today's episode is about new and unusual ways of experiencing life and reimagining the world.
0:34.5	I remember this is Shortcuts. In the dream I could see This is shortcuts.
0:38.9	In the dream I could see...
0:40.6	Brief encounters.
0:41.8	Color and...
0:42.8	True stories.
0:43.8	Pattern.
0:44.4	Radio adventures.
0:45.8	Of light and shadow.
0:47.6	And found sound.
0:50.1	Today, through the looking glass.
0:53.3	Last night, I had a dream about something that I couldn't see,
0:59.0	but that you were trying to describe to me.
1:02.0	There's birds chirping, and you can almost hear the sun rays.
1:11.6	And I said to my friend, let's make a beach, let's call up Bloordale Beach.
1:14.6	And he said, great, let's go make some signs, and then it was a beach.
1:22.6	There's a situationist slogan, which I love and I think of often.
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