Summary
Audio adventures and short documentaries about gaming, presented by Josie Long. The joy and frustration of new adventures, fast cars and family days out at the M6 Southwaite Services, and finding love by the fountain in Dalaran.
Go South Produced by Mae-Li Evans
Pole Position Featuring Steve, Alistair and Sandy Urquhart Produced by Steve Urquhart
Meet you at the fountain in Dalaran Featuring Michelle and Alberto Naso
Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall Producer: Andrea Rangecroft Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié 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. I'm Jacey Long. And today's episode is so fun. It's about video games. |
| 0:12.5 | So I really hope that if you are listening to this on headphones, perhaps you've also found your old Game Boy, or if you're not 100 years old found your old ds or whatever else you have |
| 0:23.3 | and i hope that you can spend a little bit of quality time enjoying playing some games and listening to |
| 0:30.2 | some interesting bits it's taking a while to load so we're just going to let that load. |
| 0:40.5 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:42.9 | This is frustrating. It's not loading. |
| 0:44.4 | Let's try again. |
| 0:51.0 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:53.0 | Run game. Here you go. Yes, run game. Today, let's go. Run game. Here you. Yes, run game. |
| 0:55.0 | Today, let's go. |
| 0:57.0 | Video games. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, watch out, little mushroom. I jumped on you. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, take that, mate. |
| 1:09.0 | Some of us are pretty great in this game. |
| 1:11.6 | The boulder is unusually warm to the touch. |
| 1:15.6 | A small crack traces all the way across the rock. |
| 1:18.6 | You feel air rushed through this fissure. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh, jump. |
| 1:21.6 | I actually spat at him and from then we actually started talking |
| 1:24.6 | and I found out actually it was quite a nice person. |
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