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Short Cuts
Short Cuts
BBC Radio 4

Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.

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Episodes

The Invisible

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures which emerge from dreams, hidden places and the afterlife.The Dreams (Extract) From Inventions... more

04 Jun 2024 · 28 minutes
Lost

Evaporating answers, mysterious music and disappearing dialects - Josie Long presents short documentaries about things in danger of becoming lost.Pot-8-Toes Featuring... more

28 May 2024 · 29 minutes
Devotions

Life and love. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring the language of care.Life or Death By Marc Kalani Featuring... more

21 May 2024 · 28 minutes
Body Movements

In water, on wheels or explained over the phone - Josie Long presents short documentaries about moving our bodies.Field Notes Featuring... more

14 May 2024 · 29 minutes
Earth, Water, Sky

Two men on different continents share a love of butterflies, a swimming instructor seeks solace in the water and we... more

07 May 2024 · 29 minutes
A Piano

A grand piano slowly climbs the stairs in Glasgow, a man in Brighton keeps finding his upright pianos going missing,... more

30 Apr 2024 · 29 minutes
Hereafter

Chrononormativity, duppies and post-colonial thought. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring beyond the past, present and futures.... more

13 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
The Net

Word spirits, back rooms and a reply all-pocalypse - Josie Long presents short documentaries that emerge from the internet.Word Spirits With... more

06 Feb 2024 · 29 minutes
Roots

Josie Long presents short documentaries that go back to the start. The musician Lucinda Chua traces the journey of a... more

30 Jan 2024 · 29 minutes
In Dreams

A couple looks for each other in their dreams, a research facility delves into the otherworldly, and a philosopher imagines... more

23 Jan 2024 · 29 minutes
Instructions

A pamphlet from the 1980s illuminates the world we live in now, a musical invitation for your domestic space, and... more

16 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
Minis

The moment of time before a camera shutter closes, a symphony of ums reveals a partner's untruths, and two women... more

09 Jan 2024 · 29 minutes
Archival Imaginings

Liminal prose and cryptic hotlines. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures navigating our relationship and imaginations to history... more

14 Nov 2023 · 29 minutes
Heart's Desire

Getting lost in childhood longings, the search for the home we carry inside ourselves and exploring true sexual desire in... more

07 Nov 2023 · 28 minutes
Creature Features

From a creature that leaps in the darkness of your basement to a fish that drains the life force of... more

31 Oct 2023 · 29 minutes
The Soil

A remnant from the Cold War becomes an accidental haven for wildlife, a poet and a tree surgeon search for... more

24 Oct 2023 · 29 minutes
Into the World

Visions and out of body experiences during birth and a name that stretches back through time - Josie Long presents... more

17 Oct 2023 · 28 minutes
Meeting Myself Coming Back

Notes to Self and Sonic Symmetry. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring what it looks like coming... more

10 Oct 2023 · 29 minutes
Echoes

A simple object offers comfort and connection to a grandmother and a long line of Indian women; a wife uncovers... more

03 Oct 2023 · 29 minutes
The Tipping Point

A small boy accidentally creates a vast new lizard population in his hometown, a sonic storm gathers and a writer... more

26 Sep 2023 · 28 minutes
Signal to Noise

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding meaning amid the noise.The poet and audio producer Ross Sutherland... more

19 Sep 2023 · 30 minutes
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... more

25 Jul 2023 · 29 minutes
Art

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures rediscovering the contexts that give cause to communities and their art. An... more

18 Jul 2023 · 30 minutes
Soundscape

From the texture of silence to sonic disappearances, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the soundscapes we... more

11 Jul 2023 · 30 minutes
Memory

An in-patient in a spinal injuries unit reconnects with herself by learning to cook again after a life-changing injury, friends... more

04 Jul 2023 · 29 minutes
Flow

From professional news watchers who speak each word aloud to melting ice, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures... more

27 Jun 2023 · 29 minutes
Geographies

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures centred on a specific point on the map. An Arctic voyage that... more

20 Jun 2023 · 29 minutes
Movement

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about being in motion - from scandalising dance moves to taking flight.The... more

13 Jun 2023 · 29 minutes
An Ending

From one last journey in the morning light to caring for an endling - the last of a species -... more

06 Jun 2023 · 29 minutes
Fugitive

From pirate radio to queering futures, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring fugitive acts of resistance.Radio Free... more

18 Apr 2023 · 28 minutes
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Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding meaning amid the noise.The poet and audio producer Ross Sutherland seeks to... more