Short Cuts

A couple looks for each other in their dreams, a research facility delves into the otherworldly, and a philosopher imagines a flow of time set to the rhythm of our rivers - Josie Long presents short documentaries that emerge from the dreams of others.River Time Featuring Jonathon Keats Produced by Nadia MehdiHaunted Featuring Linda Fleishman Produced by Elizabeth FriendDarling, Are You Dreaming? Featuring Jules and Vital Produced by Eloise StevensCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

A pamphlet from the 1980s illuminates the world we live in now, a musical invitation for your domestic space, and some dazzling canine choreography for your ears. Josie Long presents short documentaries based around instructions.How to Listen... including How Not To, How You Ought To, and How You Won't (Extract) Written by Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell Produced by Stephen Potter Originally broadcast on BBC Third Programme in 1946Hot Dogs! Presented by Alan Smith Produced by Steve Urquhart Originally broadcast on Alan Smith's Mid Morning Show, BBC Radio Cumbria in 1999Hell Rubs and Sobs Produced by Sami El-EnanyHow To Look 30 When You're 30 Produced by Jesse LawsonCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The moment of time before a camera shutter closes, a symphony of ums reveals a partner's untruths, and two women linked by a phantom thread reflect on their changing bodies. Josie Long presents even shorter short documentaries.Is This An Image? Produced by Jon TjhiaDeath from Above Written and read by Joe DunthorneBody of Work Featuring the voices of writer Marleen Kruithof and cinematographer Babette Mangolte Music by Nicola Mecca Produced by Georgia WalkerWhat's in an Um? Produced by Talia AugustidisCharon Composed, produced and performed by Jamie PayneCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 JonesFish & 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

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’TooleAre 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 podcastDesire Shapes Featuring Poppy Produced by Phoebe McIndoeProduced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 KumarThe 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 DukesFor the Pigeons Produced by John Luke RobertsSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 PhillipsPoet / Tree A conversation between Matthew Reid and Raymond AntrobusSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 EarsLoweza 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

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 MillsDrawn Onward Produced by Alan Goffinski and Sarita Bhatt Music, Mix and Sound Design by Alan GoffinskiMan to Boy Produced by Christina Hardinge and Jack Miguel Featuring Jacob Kelly Music by Samuel MumfordProduced by Axel Kacoutié Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 Priestley22 Words Featuring Safwat Saleem and his daughter Produced by Safwat SaleemProduced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 DunthorneA 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 ScaleLazarus Lizards Narrated by Addie Produced by Jennifer McCord and Carrie Ann WelshSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 SutherlandThe Right Colour Candle Featuring Annegret Curtis, Ed Dadey and Jan Gehmlich Produced by Liza YeagerStovepipe Wind Harp Summons the Frogs Produced by Fil CorbittSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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 BouchéRemember 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

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures rediscovering the contexts that give cause to communities and their art. An Image Interrupted Produced by Danny Greenwald Featuring the voice of Taha Heydariàlá lo lá (You Dreamed a Dream) Produced by Tobi Adebajo Poems: In a Dream, Agbegbe T’ala, Safari Ya Siri Sound Design by Tobi Adebajo Music by Akin Euba, Nabalayo, petals and Tobi AdebajoBanned in America Produced by Lucy Evans (they/them), also known as the drag king Sir Cum Sized (he/him). Featuring interviews with: Angelique Young-Cavalier (she/her), a Trans, Equal rights activist, Motivational Speaker and Drag Queen Entertainer Based in Tampa, Florida. Jackie Rosebutch (they/them), a non-binary drag Goddex and environmental science enthusiast based in Missoula, Montana. Maxi Glamour (they/them) @maxiglamour, a multidisciplinary artist at the intersection of high fantasy and social critique. Known as the Demon Queen of Polka and Baklava, Maxi Glamour uses demonological imagery as an alleg

From the texture of silence to sonic disappearances, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the soundscapes we inhabit.Omissa Oloisaan Produced by Miyuki JokirantaA Moonlit Memory Featuring Salma Ahmed Caller Sounds from YleArkisto, reinsamba, Benboncan, Julius_galla, Straget, FaireDesVagues and SoundLover16 on freesound.org Produced by Taqwa SadiqSacha Taki Featuring Jonathan Grefa, president of the Ancestral Kichwa Population of Kawsak Sacha (PAKKS - https://pakks.org.ec/), Rosa Santi, Education and Health Coordinator of PAKKS, Dr. Paola Moscoso, Director of Voces del Bosque and Graciela Tupay (singer) With thanks to Amaru Grefa, External communication and media of PAKKS, Pastor Inmunda, ex-president of PAKKS, Didier Lacaze, Director of Sacha Warmi. Rosa Canelos, Sacha Warmi, Dr. Alice Eldridge, University of Sussex, Gustavo Chiriboga, Voces del Bosque, Sozapato With recordings from Voces del Bosque https://www.vocesdelbosque.com/?lang=en Produced by Mickal AranhaCurated by Axel

An in-patient in a spinal injuries unit reconnects with herself by learning to cook again after a life-changing injury, friends remember the musician Joe Scurfield and the archive of folk music he left behind, and a radio cantata in memory of 12 civilians killed by US forces in Iraq in 2007. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about remembering, relearning and commemorating. Canto I, Crazy Horse One-Eight Produced and performed by Gregory Whitehead Commissioned by Magz Hall for the 2014 Radio Dreamlands projectFeast Produced by Bronwen LivingstoneThe Tunebank Featuring Tim Dalling and Pete Challoner Produced by Rowan Rheingans Music performed by Joe Scurfield, Tim Dalling, Pete Challoner and Rowan RheingansProduced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

From professional news watchers who speak each word aloud to melting ice, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the flow of stories through and around people.Melting Produced by Jules BradleyCirculation Field Recordings from InspectorJ, Zimbot, Dobroide, Tosha73 on freesound.org Produced by Son HansonBikes Up Ben Nevis Featuring Iain Lynn Violin by Eloise Kenny-Ryder Produced and composed by Calum PerrinCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures centred on a specific point on the map. An Arctic voyage that veers off track and echoes for years in the minds of its passengers, a baking hot summer evening in Suffolk, and an audio essay exploring the effect of environmental racism on memories of the West London town of Southall.At Sea Featuring Dr Carol Cotterill, Liam Frost, Dan Harvey and the ship’s crew Produced and read by Vicky Long8pm, rural village garden, Suffolk, UK on 19th July 2022 Produced by Melissa Harrison Originally featured on the Field Recordings podcastThe Personal is Political Written and read by Daljeet Kaur JutlaProduced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about being in motion - from scandalising dance moves to taking flight.The Twist Extract from Between the Ears: Monument (London 1935 - 1993) First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1993 Composed by Ian Gardiner Produced by Alan Hall Performed by Ensemble George W Welch With a cast of voices from the BBC Sound ArchiveLife Begins in the Stillness Featuring Gabriel Rodreick Produced by Julie CensulloUnknown Person (from Baggage Allowance) Released on the album A Secret Code Composed and performed by Pamela ZJoy of Bundle Sound design by Axel Kacoutié Written and produced by Lou MensahCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

From one last journey in the morning light to caring for an endling - the last of a species - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that begin at the end.Toughie Featuring Mark Mandica Produced by Sarah Craig Including recordings by Mark Mandica and Thomas BancroftThe Heart's Chorus (Extract) Originally created for the HearSay Festival in 2019 With musical performances from Niamh O'Brien (harp) and Wes Swing (cello) Produced and composed by Phil SmithSetting Sail (Extract) Originally broadcast in 1985 Produced by Piers PlowrightCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4