Summary
Clouds gather and rain begins to fall as Josie Long presents short documentaries about the weather. From a bird that emerges as a storm rolls across the sea from a writer's living experiment to get all her news from the weather report.
Helicopter and Canoe Produced by Kaija Siirala Thank you to Kari Siirala, Bailey Renshaw, Maarit Siirala, Gord, Micah and Casey Smith for sharing their memories of the trip.
Days Without Rain Written and read by Laura Barton
Storm Petrels Featuring David Bensen and Dr. Bill Montevecchi Produced by Rebecca Nolan
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. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Josie Long, reporting actually now in a really beautiful weather environment after some stormy weather is completely past. |
| 0:17.0 | A beautiful, clear, crisp day outside. |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm just standing needlessly by this cliff, hoping I don't get sweat out to sea. |
| 0:36.6 | In the sky, in the direction we're headed towards, is a beautiful blue slate cloud |
| 0:44.1 | that is so thick and so dark that it just promises heavy rain. |
| 0:50.7 | If I had to guess, I would say, the storm is coming. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, hello. Here we go. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, it's starting to raid. |
| 1:02.0 | Why didn't I listen to my warnings? |
| 1:05.0 | I said there's a storm cloud approaching and I was so blind about it. |
| 1:10.0 | I was like, but of course oh wow here |
| 1:12.2 | we are we're right underneath it the wind's really hoting up to the extent that I am starting |
| 1:18.4 | to regret being even just 15 minutes walk from my home it's a hail storm oh I tell you what |
| 1:25.3 | it's four seasons in one day four Four seasons in one day up here. |
| 1:29.3 | I feel a little bit like those poor reporters who get sent out in the storm. |
| 1:34.3 | This is shortcuts. Here I am with someone else who's outside for some reason. |
| 1:39.3 | Three encounters, true stories, radio adventures, over to Stephen now Stephen, how's the storm? |
| 1:48.4 | Yes, it's very bad. I'm Josie Long reporting for weather report. |
| 1:57.5 | I'm not totally sure that we're out of the woods. The wind is still high and the rain is still coming down. |
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