Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about what lies beneath the surface of things - from a subterranean journey to a dive inside a painting.
Seams (Extract) Originally made for the Timber Festival Produced by Geoff Bird
The Neighbour Produced by Sophie Townsend
The Box Originally made for the HearSay International Audio Festival Produced by Sofia Saldanha
A Deeper Dive Featuring Richard Scott Produced by Alia Cassam
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2019.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, welcome back to Shortcuts. My name's Jacey Long. I am absolutely thrilled to be presenting this new episode and this new series. |
| 0:14.3 | The last time I spoke to you, it was old springtime. Now it's glorious summertime. |
| 0:19.9 | I've changed. You've changed changed what have i started doing i've |
| 0:23.3 | started moisturizing i've started wearing sunblock every time i put on sunblock i imagine jonathan van ness |
| 0:28.9 | from queer i congratulating me and telling me what a good job i'm doing so that's my new daily routine |
| 0:35.5 | and by contrast today's episode is about going underneath the skin of things. |
| 0:40.2 | So pleased with that link. |
| 0:41.8 | We're going to start with a kind of found poem made by Geoff Bird. |
| 0:45.5 | It's an extract from a longer piece of sound art called Seams, made for the Timber Festival. |
| 0:50.9 | And it comes from a technical drawing of coal seams from an old East Midlands mine. |
| 0:57.0 | White Clunch, stony clunch |
| 1:10.9 | Stony Clunch |
| 1:13.2 | McWitt with ironstone |
| 1:14.4 | Strong blue bind |
| 1:16.6 | Strong blue bind |
| 1:18.4 | Strong blue bind |
| 1:20.6 | Kangstone |
| 1:22.5 | Strong blue bind with ironstone |
| 1:25.6 | Ironstone Ironstone Ironstone Tender blue bind with ironstone. Ironstone. |
| 1:29.0 | Ironstone. |
| 1:30.5 | Tender blue bind. |
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