Short Cuts

By BBC Radio 4Society & Culture Documentary

Short Cuts episodes

August 20, 2019 Keeping Faith
Looking for a miracle and searching for divine love - Josie Long presents short documentaries about keeping faith.
Recitation
Featuring Madinah Javed
Produced by Alia Cassam
Crab Babygrow
Featuring Sarah Mouracade
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Divine Love
Produced by Sook-Yin Lee
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
August 13, 2019 Deep Time
A solar eclipse repeats over and over, a musical key unlocks lost memories and a life marked out in books. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound on our experience of time.
Crow
Featuring Christina McLeish
Produced by Jaye Kranz
A Channel of Music
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Totality
Written and produced by Mae-Li Evans
Sound and composition by Calum Perrin
This piece is an adapted extract from a performance developed and supported by The Yard Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre and Hearsay Festival.
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
June 25, 2019 Press Record
The sounds of an empty apartment, the last tape of a loved one, the bootleg VHS tapes that helped inspire a musical movement and an erotic audio audition are at the heart of this edition of Short Cuts. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about significant recordings that have impacted people's lives.
That DAT
Produced by Natalie Kestecher
The Stains
Featuring Diane Lane and Allison Wolfe
Produced by Allyson McCabe
Sound Portrait of a Flat
Produced by Jessica Gordon Braye
A Place for Us
Featuring Tricia Davies Nearn
Produced by Alan Hall
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.
29 min
June 18, 2019 Nature Documentaries
Singing with whales, a cloud of bats and the ballad of a rare bird. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the natural world.
Whale Duet
A version of this story first appeared on the podcast Sound Matters
Interview by Tim Hinman
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Bats in the Attic
Produced by Jessie Lawson
The Lord God Bird
Originally broadcast in 2005
Produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of Long Haul Productions
The song - Great God Bird - was written and performed by Sufjan Stevens
To listen to the song in its entirety and to hear more Long Haul stories, go to www.longhaulpro.org
Production Team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall
Producer: Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.
30 min
June 11, 2019 Nocturne
Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about what happens after darkness falls. From Mark Thomas's childhood nocturnal journeys to a late-night story told in the glow of a turf fire.
The Little Nuneen
Featuring Gerald O'Brien
Produced by Regan Hutchins
Escape
Featuring Mark Thomas
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
The Poem Explains Nothing
Featuring Peter Beverley
Produced by Peilin Li
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.
29 min
June 04, 2019 Mirror Image
Josie Long gazes into a mirror as she presents short documentaries and sonic adventures on reflections and doubles.
A woman wrestles with an unsettling shadow, the double act Split Britches explore life as partners and performers and a work of sound art offers advice on becoming more becoming...
Becoming More Becoming
Originally made for the Third Coast International Audio Festival ShortDocs competition
Produced by Sarah Boothroyd
Split Britches
Feat. Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver
Produced by Alia Cassam
The Detonator
Originally made for CBC's Love Me
Produced by Sarah Geis, Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal Duhaime and 'Kate'
Sound by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.
31 min
May 28, 2019 Desire Lines
Looking for love online, the desire lines we walk to a lover's house and the untethering of a breast-feeding baby from its mother - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about being drawn towards the ones we love.
Desire Lines
Featuring Laura Barton
The Real Tom Banks
Produced by Jesse Cox
Sound Engineer Timothy Nicastri
Originally made for Radiotonic on ABC Radio National
Untethered
Featuring Nell Frizzell
Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2019.
29 min
May 20, 2019 What Lies Beneath
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.
30 min
March 26, 2019 Early Spring
As the days lengthen and a new season approaches, Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the Rilke poem Early Spring.
The People Who Feel
Featuring Henry Cordova
Produced by Ariana Martinez
Falling Like Blossom
Featuring Naoko Abe
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
Lilia is Listening
Originally made for the podcast Love Me
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/loveme/in-the-distance-1.4899506
Produced by Sara Brooke Curtis, with Cristal Duhaime, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Sarah Geis
Mix by Cristal Duhaime
Readings by Stacia Brown
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2019.
31 min
March 19, 2019 Between the Lines
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about translation, interpretation and ideas that resonate in the gap between words - from the connection between one man and his translator, through Benjamin Clementine's interpretation of Satie, to the work of an ASL/English interpreter.
In Translation
Featuring Miwako Ozawa and Hiromitsu Shinkawa
A version of this story first appeared in the BBC World Service documentary Found in Translation made by Whistledown Productions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03l3jxj
Produced by Rose de Larrabeiti
Gymnopédie
Featuring Benjamin Clementine
Produced by Mooj Zadie
The Go-Between
Featuring Christopher Desloges
Music: Scorch by Nctrnm from the Free Music Archive
Produced by Aliya Pabani
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2019.
31 min