Josie Long presents a sequence of mini documentaries about small acts of resistance - from bursting into song to crashing a car into a wall.

The items featured in the programme are:

La esperanza muere al último

Nicholas Petron

Heavy Iron Beast

Stories from the Underground

Rabble Rousers

Gentle Angry People

Series producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.

Josie Long presents a series of short documentaries about keeping quiet, being lost for words and complete silence.

From the crushing silence after a musician's mistake to the tense hush that surrounds two teenage boys as they hide inches from their headmaster in an oversized box - tales of attempts to keep quiet and the struggle to raise your voice.

The items featured in the programme are:

Wilderness

Hidden

Sailing By

Nobody Else Can Hear It

Hearing Voices

El's Story

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents a sequence of unbelievable mini documentaries looking at bending the truth, fantasists and outright liars.

Josie hears how the writer Ross Sutherland invented a mysterious secret society by accident and looks for secrets scratched into the sidewalks of San Francisco by an enigmatic writer known only as 'Nikko'.

The items featured in the programme are:

Hearts and Crafts

Fictions

Wash Club

Nikko

Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents a showcase for delightful and adventurous short documentaries and makes her escape as we hear stories of running away, flight and car chases.

From breaking away to disappearing into escapism - we hear the tale of a narrow escape as three young Australian men desperately try to manoeuvre themselves out of trouble, alongside the story of a 93 year old wing walker getting lost in the clouds.

The items featured in the programme are:

Swimming in Snafu

River Guard

Drive for Portugal

Head in the Clouds

Road Warriors

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Rpt

Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries with stories of loss and discovery.

From being lost in the music to lost love - Josie delves into tales of forgotten cassette tapes, voices rediscovered and teenage rebellion.

Hide and Seek

Lost in Music

I am Luther Blissett

Fluctuations

Lost Voices

Looking for Layla

Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries about communication - messages that could break your heart, rescue you from a fight or save you from a long stay in jail.

The writer Glenn Patterson explains why sometimes we should ignore the writing on the wall, and musician Tom Robinson describes the unlikely message he sent at a time when he was in a lot of trouble.

Stories of last words, lost love and lights being knocked out.

The items featured in the programme are:

Guess Who

L'Esprit De L'Escalier

Yanto

Message from Above

Dear Sophie

Conversations with Nic

Produced by Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents a series of delightful and adventurous short documentaries, brief encounters, true stories and found sound.

We examine rips in the fabric of the universe as Josie Long delves into stories of splits, divisions and tears. From broken hearts to divided personalities.

We hear from a woman who was so tired of being in two minds that she surrendered all of her decision making to a piece of string, a mimic who taught herself how to assume alternate personalities and we recover from heartbreak using the 'Automated Relationship Replacement Hotline'.

The items featured in the programme are:

Automated Relationship Replacement Hotline

String

Split Voices

Other Halves

Produced by Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries in which people hurl themselves into the air with the hope of taking flight.

We glide through the air, fall into the sea and explore grand leaps of the imagination, which cross the border between dreaming and reality.

From comedian Holly Walsh's tale of hurtling off the edge of a pier in a handmade helicopter, through to the story of a trapeze artist balancing on the edge of falling as he casts himself upwards.

The items featured in the programme are:

The Fall

Sky Boy

Falling for Rambo

The Dreamers

Looking Up

Produced by Eleanor McDowall

In the first programme of this series of Short Cuts, Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries which peel back the curtain, peer into the darkness and look out at those who are watching us.

By turns delightful and unsettling, today's audio adventures include the secret games teachers play when they're invigilating exams, a photographer whose ambition is to capture 'still lives' of people unawares in their homes at night, and a glimpse of the devices you can buy to spy on those supposedly close to you.

The items featured in the programme are:

Someone to Watch Over Me

Stand by Me

I Was Bruce Lee

Cracking the Love Code

All Eyes on Us

She Sees Your Every Move

Produced by Eleanor McDowall