Short Cuts

Josie Long presents short documentaries and stories about unearthly happenings - from the myths surrounding Lake Stechlin, which is said to boil whenever a major catastrophic event happens anywhere in the world, to an uneasy evening at a conference for exorcists.

Possession

Psychic Blob

Lake Stechlin

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Blue skies, a rainbow of strangers and lipstick shades weave through today's short documentaries about colour. Josie Long explores how it affects the way we experience the world.

Blue

Lipstick

I Know Light Now

Ring a Rainbow

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2018.

From an island which resists invasion to a beloved city in which you can't be free - Josie Long presents a series of short documentaries where the landscape becomes a character.

Ribbon Gums

Resistance

Mosul Eye

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2018.

Love lost and found, a lingering goodbye and the after image of a loved one - Josie Long presents stories of holding on.

From the echoes of a partner that linger after their death to an extraordinary tale of love regained after fifty years apart.

Her Name Was Jean

The Awkward Goodbye

After Image

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2018.

A two-decade long commitment to writing a new Christmas standard, an Icelandic documentary fairytale and the comedian Mark Thomas feature in Josie Long's festive documentary special.

The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

Solla Decorates for Christmas

Dad's Christmas

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2017.

Josie Long explores the way our collections and accidental archives define us. Diving into a head full of palindromes, love letters, artistic accidents and family recipes.

Featuring the writer Nikesh Shukla, the illustrator Ralph Steadman, love letter writer extraordinaire Janet Gallin, and Martin Clear, the winner of the World Palindrome Championship.

Janet Gallin

Ralph Steadman: Better than Being in a Tent

Yoko Is Not a Palindrome

Family Recipe

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2017.

Falling from a great height and last words across a telephone line - Josie Long hears stories of relationships stretched across space.

From the crossover between skydiving, Soren Kierkegaard and falling in love, to the final words uttered into the ear of a loved one on another continent.

Rafadan Yumurta

On Top

Alfred and Katie

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2017.

Josie Long hears stories from within hidden worlds - a doctor living in quarantine, the founder of a time travellers convention and a radio DJ offering a lifeline to prisoners.

On The Inside

The Time Traveller's Convention

Quarantine

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.first broadcast in November 2017.

Josie Long hears stories spell craft, poetry and art coming to life.

What can a poet learn from a consultant sorcerer? Ross Sutherland explores the poetic possibilities of spell craft. A fragment of Sappho's poetic longing is unpicked alongside a reading by Anne Carson. And at night, in a gallery, art springs to life.

Incantations

After Fragment 31

Nocturne

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in November 2017.

Josie Long hears stories which come out of nowhere. A story of creation, time and disappearance; a writer takes a precarious drive down an icy road imagining the dive into nothing at the edge of her vision, and the unexpected kindness of a stranger pulls a man back from the brink.

Thin Air

The Water

The Kindness of Strangers

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall