Short Cuts

By BBC Radio 4Society & Culture Documentary

Short Cuts episodes

December 17, 2019 Bodies
Joe Dunthorne dives into poetic descriptions of the body and we hear the sound of sleep. Visceral short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
Her Eyes Were Like...
Featuring Joe Dunthorne, Caroline Bird, Ross Sutherland and Jack Underwood
While You Were Sleeping
Featuring Dr Jim Grayburn
Produced by Calum Perrin
Transition
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Production Team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2019.
31 min
December 10, 2019 Maps
Navigating emotional terrain, finding joy in another world and mapping a continuum of thinking. Josie Long presents short documentaries about desire, love and heartbreak.
Pixels and Bits
Featuring Stephen Sexton
Produced by Alia Cassam
Drive Straight Ahead
Written by Jonathan Goldstein and Mira Burt-Wintonick
Produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime
Originally broadcast on CBC's WireTap
Playing in the Dark
Featuring Gail Lewis, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski and Natasha Mumbi Nkonde
Produced by Tej Adeleye
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2019.
30 min
December 03, 2019 Beasts
Magical creatures wrap themselves around you in the fog and we hear a musical tribute to furry beasts - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about real and imagined animals.
Cat Names
Produced by Joseph Keckler
Ashi Magari
Produced by Rikke Houd
Touching the Elephant
Presented by Kim Normanton
Produced by Matt Thompson
Mastered by Jon Calver
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997
Concerts for Dogs
Featuring Laurie Anderson
Produced by Tim Hinman
Originally made for Sound Matters
Production Team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2019.
29 min
November 26, 2019 Sports
From rally car driving to the healing power of climbing - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about sport, exercise and competition.
Go Faster
Featuring Rosemary Smith
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Climb When Ready
Featuring Cassius Adair and Martha Bennett
Produced by Arlie Adlington
Music credit: Negentropy by Chad Crouch
That's It
Featuring recordings from The Sound of Sport
Produced by Bus Crush
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
31 min
November 19, 2019 From the Heart
From a broken-hearted granddaughter's search for understanding to a collective conversation around desire - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about desire, love and heartbreak.
ROW-cub
Produced by Neena Pathak
Texts I've Sent The Government
Featuring John-Luke Roberts and River Hall
Falckensteinscredo
Produced by Phil Smith
An Interrogation
Produced by Erisa Apantaku
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2019.
29 min
September 24, 2019 The Archivist
The tattered book worth risking everything for, the man who can't forget and chronicling history one voice message at a time.
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about record keepers.
Memories
Featuring Bob Petrella
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Messages from Manus Island
Featuring Behrouz Boochani
Produced by Femi Oriogun-Williams
The Exercise Book
Featuring Jeremiah
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam
Producer: Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.
30 min
September 17, 2019 Family Ties
A family whose women are bound by activism, poetry between generations and forging new families in later life. Josie Long presents short documentaries about familial connections.
Radical Love
Featuring Ash Sarkar
Produced by Alia Cassam
A Beautiful Arrangement
Featuring Stefanie Clark and Jane Callahan-Moore
Produced by Bill Healy
Loose Lips
Featuring Mark ‘Mr T’ Thompson and Fiona Goffe
Produced by Alan Hall
Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.
30 min
September 10, 2019 Mary Oliver
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
- Mary Oliver
Josie Long heads out alone into nature to present short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the poet Mary Oliver. From a meditation on the seasons amid the changing climate, to an exploration of wanting with Laura Barton.
Wild and Precious
Featuring Laura Barton
Mary Oliver - Listening to the World (edited extract)
Interview by Krista Tippett
This interview was originally produced for The On Being Project
onbeing.org
To Fail as a Witness
Featuring Anne Fosburg
Produced by Ariana Martinez
Special thanks to Anne Fosburg and collaborator Mitchell Johnson for the early correspondence that motivated this work.
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.
30 min
September 03, 2019 Musical
A spider infestation turns into a musical performance, the pianist Glenn Gould unpicks the magic of Petula Clark's Downtown and Patrick Haggerty talks about Lavender Country, which has come to be known as the first gay country music album.
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about music and musicians.
Lavender Country
Featuring Patrick Haggerty
Produced by Thomas Curry, Lauren Eisen and Sofie Strøbeck
Downtown
Featuring Glenn Gould
Produced by Alan Hall
Spiders! The Musical
Produced by Phil Smith
Image Credit: Matthew Wilson
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.
34 min
August 27, 2019 Self-Portrait
Josie Long draws her own image whilst presenting short documentaries about turning the camera lens or microphone on yourself.
A Private Ritual
Written by Jess Bineth and Tilly Lawless
Produced by Jess Bineth
Ghosts
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
How To Remember
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 August 2019.
30 min