An AI writes a Nicolas Cage film, a Matt Damon lookalike causes havoc and a story has its climax removed - Josie Long presents short action-driven documentaries and audio adventures.

Matt Damon

Nic O Las

The Juicy Part

Sweat

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft

From a rhythm that weaves itself through memory to our relationship with deep time, Josie Long presents a countdown of numerically-inspired short documentaries.

The Everywhen

The Yelling Birds of the Presidio

Counting to Six

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long, P.I. investigates a series of mysterious audio adventures and short documentaries including The Young Detective, The Case of the Disappearing Turtle and The Big Sleep (at 73).

The Young Detective

Producer: Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries dedicated to our love for those around us - an invocation for creating new life, finding meaning in being stood up and decades spent hearing about, and helping, Britain's LGBTQ+ life.

Alone

Thank you for being here

An Invocation for All Fertility Treatments

Producer: Andrea Rangecroft

Listening to the melodies in auctioneer school, reimagining the sound in your ears and a twilight audio-experience which takes you back in time. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by unusual sound worlds.

The Auctioneer (Excerpt)

Accompaniment for Ever-Present Sounds

Flying Fox

Photo credit: Doug Gimesy

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft

A wait of 33 years between a marriage proposal and a response, a skittish piano tries to avoid the stage and a young boy looks out to sea waiting for his father. Josie Long presents short documentaries and works of sound art about waiting, yearning and anxiously anticipating.

Skittish Piano

Isabel and Alf

The Voice of the Sea

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents even shorter short documentaries and audio adventures in this episode built around miniature works of audio art.

Our Shared Secrets

Gretchen Bender - Artificial Treatment. 1988. Recorded at Studio PASS. N.Y. by B. Hutchinson.

Donegal Revisited

Redacted Mixtape

Doomscroll

A Breath of Fresh Air

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

As we reach the ten year anniversary of his death, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the worlds of Maurice Sendak.

We're In The Den

In the Hard Rock Night Kitchen

Extract from Terry Gross's interview with Maurice Sendak

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Butterflies, rattlesnakes and feral chickens make their way through the short documentaries in Wildlife, as Josie Long presents audio adventures inspired by the natural world.

I Dream of Rattlesnakes

Chicken Roundabout

The Magnolia Exist

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Clouds gather and rain begins to fall as Josie Long presents short documentaries about the weather. From a bird that emerges as a storm rolls across the sea from a writer's living experiment to get all her news from the weather report.

Helicopter and Canoe

Days Without Rain

Storm Petrels

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall