Summary
As time appears to fall still between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that play with our temporal senses.
Blight Created by Jocelyn Pook and John Smith Originally created for the series Sound on Film in 1996 Released on Purge Records
Raven Produced by Vaida Pilibaitytė
Time Stops Produced by Jules Bradley
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. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Jocie Long. |
| 0:08.9 | I hope you're well, whatever moment of the day, year this finds you. |
| 0:14.0 | Here I am recording from my particular time capsule, |
| 0:17.4 | a moment that will never happen again. |
| 0:19.6 | My baby daughter is upstairs, grisisling because she has a cold. |
| 0:23.2 | Outside, it's sub-zero conditions in Glasgow but no snow. |
| 0:27.2 | And inside my office I'm wearing thermals and feeling like I've done a very good job of getting through the day. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah. This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:56.2 | I don't really remember. |
| 1:02.2 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 1:04.1 | We are sorry we've got to knock your house now. |
| 1:06.9 | We are sorry you've got to move your mother. |
| 1:10.0 | We are sorry that we've got to destroy this community. It's always in front of me, it's never behind, always below my eyes, never above. |
| 1:16.6 | Soft conversations trickle into your ear. |
| 1:21.6 | I don't really remember. |
| 1:25.6 | All these bits of time cling to my body in a tight hug. |
| 1:30.8 | What are what happening? |
| 1:33.6 | You're about to hear a moment frozen in time. |
| 1:44.6 | East London, 1996. |
| 1:48.3 | Blight revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, |
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