Wheel of Fortune
Short Cuts
BBC
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A writer wonders if she has been cursed by the comedian Stewart Lee, a man builds his home beside an active volcano, and the story of a clothes peg and it's strange, romantic power.
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about luck, superstition and surrendering to chaos.
Sandwiches Featuring Laura Barton and Stewart Lee
Kilauea Featuring Gary Sleik Produced by Thomas Phillips
Lucky 7 Featuring Richard O'Neill
Photo credit: Gary Sleik ("Photo taken February 11, 2017 at 7: 48 a.m. about 7 km west of my home, on my morning walk to see where the lava was flowing on the surface. I was able to see these flows from my bed at night, more comfortable for me than most people I'm sure.")
Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall 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. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Jacey Long and welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's episode really thrills me. |
| 0:13.2 | I love anything that hints at fate and also hints at the absence of fate, |
| 0:18.2 | but still the presence of fun related to fate, if that makes any sense. |
| 0:24.0 | I like the idea that simultaneously lack doesn't exist, but also a little wink that you can create |
| 0:30.7 | your own luck in some kind of strange way. |
| 0:35.5 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 0:45.8 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:49.8 | Today, Wheel of Fortune. |
| 0:52.4 | How do you break a curse? |
| 0:55.3 | It can happen to them, maybe it can happen to me. |
| 0:58.5 | Although I'm not sure I should really talk about common sense, |
| 1:01.0 | seeing as I built my home on the same property, |
| 1:02.7 | but the world's most active volcano. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm sorry because we've called this show Wheel of Fortune and there's nothing in it about the iconic game show |
| 1:13.0 | and I'm so sorry if you were expecting game show chat and you were sadly disappointed but |
| 1:18.5 | just like that game show today's episode is about each of us having our own turn spinning the |
| 1:26.4 | outrageous wheel of fortune, |
| 1:28.4 | and sometimes it landing on a big jackpot, |
| 1:31.4 | and other times it leaving us with nothing. |
| 1:37.0 | We're going to start today with a curse. |
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