Short Cuts

By BBC Radio 4Society & Culture Documentary

Short Cuts episodes

September 15, 2020 Tomorrow
Programming a stand up comedian, learning to challenge ideas of perfectionism through tending a garden, and poems looking towards a more empathetic future. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring our visions of the future.
S.E.I.N.F.E.L.D.
Produced by Ross Sutherland
Originally produced for Imaginary Advice
Learning/Unlearning
Featuring Ciarra Jones
Produced by Erisa Apantaku
The Missing
Featuring Roger Robinson
Produced by Alia Cassam
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
29 min
September 07, 2020 Hinterland
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about hinterlands - areas lying beyond what is visible or known. From how to read the dangers and possibilities of public space to the space you might inhabit after you die.
When You're Gone, You're Gone (extract)
Presented / composed by Jocelyn Pook
Produced by Kate Bland
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
Jarman's Garden
Produced by Sherre DeLys
Music by Chris Abrahams
Cruising
Produced by Mara Lazer
When You're Gone, You're Gone (extract 2)
Presented / composed by Jocelyn Pook
Produced by Kate Bland
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
31 min
September 02, 2020 The Departure
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about leaving places behind. From zip wiring over the Iron Curtain, to reflecting on lost connections with your country of origin and a poem remembering the thousands of people lost to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Zip Wire
Featuring Daniel Pohl
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
half / half
Featuring Hannah Kendaru, Lou Kendaru and Remi Kendaru
Co-created by Lou and Hannah Kendaru.
Produced by Lou Kendaru
First developed for Future Currents hosted by The Doing Group
Seed of the Fruit
Featuring Mark 'Mr T' Thompson
Produced by Alan Hall
With the voice of Cherise Hamilton-Stephenson
Statistics from slavevoyages.org
Commissioned by the National Maritime Museum for UNESCO’s International Day for the Rembrance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
31 min
August 25, 2020 The Question
Short documentaries and adventures in sound about quiz shows and queries for an uncertain future. Presented by Josie Long.
Google Oracle
Produced by Annina Lehmann
The $64,000 Question
Produced by Jodie Taylor from Fat Rat Films
The Interview
Featuring Laura Barton
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
30 min
August 18, 2020 Moments of Being
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by Virginia Woolf's idea of Moments of Being.
"I find that scene making is my natural way of marking the past. Always a scene has arranged itself: representative; enduring. This confirms me in my instinctive notion (it will not bear arguing about; it is irrational) the sensation that we are sealed vessels afloat on what it is convenient to call reality; and at some moments, the sealing matter cracks; in floods reality; that is, these scenes - for why do they survive undamaged year after year unless they are made of something comparatively permanent?"
Waves
Featuring Milton Dawes
Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Music by Carl Vézina
How It Felt
Featuring Sofia Saldanha, Katharina Smets and Ariel Mejia
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
The Fear
Featuring Erisa Apantaku
Produced by James T. Green
28 hours
Featuring Beverley Bass
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
30 min
August 11, 2020 Touch
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
31 min
June 23, 2020 Remix
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about remixing and reinventing the world.
Jonathan Zenti builds something new from undelivered audio projects, Scottee's grandad becomes an emerging artist and we hear reimagined whale song.
* Porn Whales
Originally made for In The Dark Radio
www.inthedarkradio.org
Produced by Ed Prosser
* Apology Letter
Produced by Jonathan Zenti
* No Need to Shout
Featuring Scottee and Liam Gallagher
Produced by Alia Cassam
* The Toilets at Home Are All Gender Neutral
Produced by Arlie Adlington
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
30 min
June 16, 2020 The Outside
Lying on your back and gazing at the stars in Australia, viewing the world through the eyes of a little dog and venturing outside your home - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the outside world.
Emu in the Sky
Featuring Krystal DeNapoli
Produced by Krystal DeNapoli, Michelle Macklem, and Zoe Tennant
Paws for Thought (featuring Little Oblong)
Produced by Phil Smith
The Outside
Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
31 min
June 09, 2020 Words To Live By
Josie Long presents short documentaries about the writers and musicians whose words help us navigate the difficult moments in our lives.
From James Baldwin to Adrienne Rich, the lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers to a new poem by Axel Kacoutié.
* James Baldwin in conversation with Studs Terkel
Originally broadcast in 1961
Courtesy of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
* For george, breonna, ahmaud, and christian
Produced by James T. Green
Originally made for the podcast u+1f60c
* Dedications
Featuring Mary Jean Chan
Produced by Alia Cassam
Featuring recordings of Adrienne Rich from the audio archives of the public radio show, New Letters on the Air, a production of New Letters magazine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
* The Watertank
Featuring Damian Le Bas
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
* You Got Through the Day
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
33 min
June 03, 2020 Kids
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures with and about kids.
Exploring the world through the eyes of a little boy, beauty pageants for children, a weather forecast takeover and finding a newborn on the subway.
*Let’s Get Lost Together
Featuring Eligh Moon
Produced by Sara Brooke Curtis
*Beauty Queen Dropout
Featuring Samara Addai
Produced by Deborah Shorinde
*The Random Weather Report
Featuring Niamh and Tommy
Produced by Chris Attaway
Originally produced for Audio Playground
audioplayground.xyz
*Bundle on the Subway
Featuring Pete Mercurio and Danny Stewart
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
30 min