Summary
From a tender dance and the absence of a lover to the music a tongue makes as it touches the inside of your mouth - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the sensation of touch.
Hard To Say Featuring Ed Werler Produced by Bente Birkeland
Tongue Tied Produced by Sami El-Enany
REGARDS TOP UP YOUR OWN ARTWORK FOR Feauring. Alexandra Smith and Angus Rogers Produced by Phil Smith
Language is Born of Absence Produced by Mara Lazer
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the new series of shortcuts. We're absolutely thrilled to be back. |
| 0:09.6 | I hope you've been keeping well in the interim between listening to these, or indeed if you're catching up on these in the future, that you're just keeping well in general. |
| 0:18.1 | That's good, too. The first voice that you're going to hear is that of |
| 0:22.3 | Eve, a dancer from the company of elders, and it was recorded back in 2009, which I suppose if you're |
| 0:28.6 | listening to this in the distant future is all much of a muchness for you. 2009, 2020, yeah, |
| 0:34.0 | that was both 300 years ago. Well, I hope the future is better than I can imagine it now. |
| 0:38.8 | Good day. |
| 0:46.8 | A lot of us live on our own, and we don't get touched. |
| 0:52.7 | It is wonderful that, particularly as you get to know the group and as they |
| 0:57.0 | get to know you, all self-consciousness fades and you dance. You don't think, God, there's |
| 1:06.0 | this man touching me and he's really quite into, he's right up against me. |
| 1:14.1 | That doesn't occur to you because it's dance. |
| 1:17.2 | So he's not that man. |
| 1:20.8 | He's your partner for the dance for that particular moment and time. |
| 1:27.2 | This is shortcuts. The body is a recording device |
| 1:30.6 | Scars and muscle memory |
| 1:32.9 | The chipped tooth that speaks of a night's revelry |
| 1:36.9 | Akes and changes |
| 1:39.3 | All our days in skin and bone |
| 1:42.6 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found Sam. |
| 1:49.2 | I say hi, hi, Betty, hi Margaret and so forth, and they all wave and I'll take their hand sometimes, |
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