Short Cuts

By BBC Radio 4

Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.

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The podcast currently has 253 episodes available.

Short Cuts episodes:

November 14, 2023 Archival Imaginings
Liminal prose and cryptic hotlines. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures navigating our relationship and imaginations to history collecting.
The Flight of Sankofa
Produced by Weyland Mckenzie-Witter
Featuring Lisa Anderson, the Director of the Black Cultural Archives, Dr Etienne Jospeh of Decolonising the Archive and Christopher West the inaugural curator for the Black diaspora, John Hay Library, Brown University, who recently curated an exhibition using Brown University’s Mumia Abu-Jamal collection.
Xenoglossia
Produced by Kamikaze Jones
Fish & Chips
(best listened to with headphones)
Produced by Abira Hussein and Olani Ewunnet
Recorded with Sue Bowerman
Featuring the voices of Somali Aunties from London
Special thanks to Alan Archer-Boyd, and Whose Knowledge?
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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30min
November 07, 2023 Heart's Desire
Getting lost in childhood longings, the search for the home we carry inside ourselves and exploring true sexual desire in a world shaped by media and societal pressures. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that explore our desires.
American Glove Cafe
Featuring Conor O’Toole and Fán
Written and produced by Conor O’Toole
Are We There Yet?
Featuring Angeliki Androutsopoulos, Garth Davis, Amira and Danita, plus recordings by Mary Hufford for The Library of Congress.
Produced by Jaye Kranz
Original commissioned and produced for Constellations podcast
Desire Shapes
Featuring Poppy
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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29min
October 31, 2023 Creature Features
From a creature that leaps in the darkness of your basement to a fish that drains the life force of its partner - Josie Long presents creature features and creepy crawly short documentaries for Halloween.
In Spirit
Featuring James Maclaine, Senior Curator of Fish, at the Natural History Museum, London
Produced and sound designed by Meera Kumar
The Seventh Sense
Thanks to Emma Rathbone, Gaye Williams, Ben Pagac, Mary Jane Epps, and everybody who shared a camel cricket story
Music by Cue Shop, Big Lazy, and Blue Dot Sessions
Produced by Jesse Dukes
For the Pigeons
Produced by John Luke Roberts
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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30min
October 24, 2023 The Soil
A remnant from the Cold War becomes an accidental haven for wildlife, a poet and a tree surgeon search for the roots of a metaphor, and a musician searches for an anchor to home. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the ground beneath your feet.
Always Moving
Cello performed by Joe Reynolds
Engineered by Yuri Shibuichi
Composed and produced by Tendertwin (Bilge Nur Yilmaz)
Memorial Landscape
Featuring Kai Frobel
Translator Jana Kosok
Produced by Tom Phillips
Poet / Tree
A conversation between Matthew Reid and Raymond Antrobus
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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30min
October 17, 2023 Into the World
Visions and out of body experiences during birth and a name that stretches back through time - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the experience of coming into the world.
Transition
Produced by Kalli Anderson and apè Aliermo
Featuring excerpts from SIMULA, an 8.2-channel sound installation by apè Aliermo and mixed and mastered by Rose Bolton.
This composition includes sound recorded during three anonymous births and electromagnetic sound recorded in a hospital during one of the births.
The voices you hear are Redzi Bernard, Becky Kenna, Amy Macfarlane and Andrea Gummo.
Hope is the thing with feathers
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Originally broadcast, in a different version, on BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears
Loweza Ayazi
Featuring Nomkhubulwane Mnisi
Produced by Kagiso Mnisi
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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29min
October 10, 2023 Meeting Myself Coming Back
Notes to Self and Sonic Symmetry. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring what it looks like coming back to yourself.
The News
Produced by Jess Shane
Featuring Jennifer Mills
Drawn Onward
Produced by Alan Goffinski and Sarita Bhatt
Music, Mix and Sound Design by Alan Goffinski
Man to Boy
Produced by Christina Hardinge and Jack Miguel
Featuring Jacob Kelly
Music by Samuel Mumford
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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30min
October 03, 2023 Echoes
A simple object offers comfort and connection to a grandmother and a long line of Indian women; a wife uncovers the fingerprints her husband left on their world and with them, the microscopic details of grief; and an Urdu language lesson between a father and daughter reveals cultural loss and the father's longing to belong. Josie Long presents short documentaries that reverberate through time.
Silver Cup: A Female Grammar
Written and produced by HJ Radia
With thanks to Laura Barton
In loving memory of J.K Dave (1956-2023)
Fingerprints and Lightbulbs
Written and produced by Amanda Priestley
22 Words
Featuring Safwat Saleem and his daughter
Produced by Safwat Saleem
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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30min
September 26, 2023 The Tipping Point
A small boy accidentally creates a vast new lizard population in his hometown, a sonic storm gathers and a writer takes his family on a precarious family boat trip. Josie Long presents short documentaries about situations tumbling out of control.
Eight Go To Treasure Island
Written and read by Joe Dunthorne
A Mirror
Featuring Steve Urquhart
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
Featuring cellos by incidentalnoise
With thanks to Rosalind Jana for pointing out the poetry of the Beaufort Scale
Lazarus Lizards
Narrated by Addie
Produced by Jennifer McCord and Carrie Ann Welsh
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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29min
September 19, 2023 Signal to Noise
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding meaning amid the noise.
The poet and audio producer Ross Sutherland seeks to understand the strange echoes in his hearing, a remnant from a house fire is transformed into music and the radio-maker Liza Yeager finds magic in a series of encounters.
Hallucinations
Featuring Dr Theresa Marschall and Lizzy Dening
Produced by Ross Sutherland
The Right Colour Candle
Featuring Annegret Curtis, Ed Dadey and Jan Gehmlich
Produced by Liza Yeager
Stovepipe Wind Harp Summons the Frogs
Produced by Fil Corbitt
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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31min
July 25, 2023 New Word Order
Made up, mixed or invented. Josie Long presents not-so-long-radio sound paintings melting how we use words to make space for who we want to be.
A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
Produced by Darragh Amelia
Featuring June Katz, Patricia Hirsch, poet Xiao Yue Shan, photographer Anna Francesca Jennings and historian Alma Simba.
The Magic of Waves
Produced by Ève-Marie Bouché
Remember There Is More
Produced by Tej Adeleye
Featuring activist Ngozi Alston, creator of the term Neuroexpansive; Dr Nick Walker, creator of Neuroqueer theory; Dr Ned Hallowell; Dr Keri Opai; Matana Roberts; Aiyanna Goodfellow, founder of Neuromancers and “a darling spook, writer, ghost whisperer, and friend".
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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30min

FAQs about Short Cuts:

How many episodes does Short Cuts have?

The podcast currently has 253 episodes available.