Short Cuts

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about mothers and motherhood. We hear a story of a recurrent dream about searching for an absent mother, Heather O'Neill delves into the ways her mother and her own experience of motherhood have threaded through her life, and the writer Nikesh Shukla reflects on ways to remember a mother you've lost.Fragments Of My Mother Written and read by Nikesh ShuklaMotherhood, a short story Featuring Heather O'Neill Produced by Sarah CuddonCall Me Mother Featuring Raven Mandella Produced by Suzie McCarthyMother, Unknown Produced by Nanna Hauge KristensenProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about letter writing - Mother’s Day cards travelling thousands of miles home, love letters that are cherished, hidden and lost, and a one-way correspondence bringing comfort during chemotherapy. Letters to My Dear Lovers Produced by Sofia SaldanhaYou Go First Featuring Helene Ishikawa Produced by Rachel IshikawaUrsula Bloom speaking to Jack Singleton Home This Afternoon, BBC Radio, 1965From Me To You Featuring Alison Hitchcock and Brian Greenley Produced by Helen Zaltzman First broadcast in The Allusionist podcast episode ‘66. Open Me part 1’ frommetoyouletters.co.ukProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that centre around acts of love - from the story of Ruth Coker Burks, who became a loving caretaker for hundreds of men during the AIDS epidemic, to the poet Nikita Gill's look at a love which ended in its beginning.Jewels from the Sun Written and read by Nikita GillThe Last Act Featuring Anita Barrows Produced by Phil Smith This interview first appeared in the documentary To Bear Witness on BBC Radio 3 in Between the Ears.Comet Dust Featuring Ruth Coker Burks Produced by Jodie Taylor and Chloe WhiteProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Cold-calling Santa Claus, family gatherings and a solo tradition for the 25th December - Josie Long presents festive short documentaries.Santa Clauses Produced by Noam OsbandMerry Christmas Grandad Featuring Mark Thomas Produced by Sarah CuddonChristmas at the Movies Featuring Hanif Abdurraqib Production team: Andrea RangecroftSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the caretakers who help our worlds to run and re-imagining the places we love. The Reason That I'm Still Here Featuring Usnia Granger Produced by Michael SegalovCaretaker Featuring Scottee and his mum SarahThe Dustbin Man Cometh Produced by Ed ProsserFrom Surface to Core Feat. Miriam González Produced by Ariana MartinezProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about listening to what lies beneath the surface. Uncovering one woman’s secret musical rebellion, rescuing musical scores written by prisoners in concentration camps and mapping our differing experiences in a sonic poem by the audio artist Axel Kacoutié.A Unique Literature Featuring Francesco Lotoro Produced by Andrea RangecroftMirry Featuring Tom Fraser, Margaret Drage and Geoffrey Drage Co-produced by Kirsteen McNish and Eleanor McDowall Music by Mirabel Lomer, Tom Fraser and Simon TongA Sound Poem First broadcast in the Constellations podcast episode 'Inner Geographies' Produced by Axel KacoutiéProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Short documentaries and audio adventures about the letters and books which reach unexpected readers - with Josie Long. From the woman who has collected 8000 strangers' diaries to the letter treasured by a political prisoner who'd never met its senders.The Mother Featuring Cedric Jones, Sonia Sanchez and Haki Madhubuti Produced by Sarah CuddonRevolutionary Greetings Featuring Lee Mostert, Freda Mostert, Estelle Leonard and Chris Giffard Produced by Neroli Price with additional reporting by Rasmus BitschSally's Diaries Featuring Sally MacNamara Ivey Produced by Olivia HumphreysProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents a selection of miniature documentaries and tiny audio adventures. A 3-minute elevator journey with the poet Paul Farley, a snappy surrealist game and a journey into the world of the planet’s tiniest inhabitants.Mini Break Produced by Andrea RangecroftThe Pitch Written by Paul Farley Produced by Geoff BirdFive-Seven-Five Produced by Sami El-Enany and Axel KacoutiéThe Shape of You in Her Produced by Jonathan Williams Created for audioplayground.xyzTime is Happening Produced by Annina LehmanThe Quiet Featuring Aisling Gallagher Produced by Calum Perrin An extract from Conversations Future Selves, a collaborative project commissioned by YLab and HARPAn Acoustic Acclamation to Things Tiny Produced by Action PyramidA Hymn to Cardea Featuring Stephen Jenkinson Produced by Phil SmithProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

From the act of translating dance into words to finding understanding between two divorced parents - Josie Long presents stories of interpretation.What Is This Shape? Producer: Jess Shane Music: Daniel Pencer Featuring. iele paloumpis, Seta Morton, Alejandra Ospina and Krishna Washburn This research featured in this doc was catalyzed by the evening-length dance performance of In place of catastrophe, a clear night sky, which was set to premiere at Danspace Project in May 2020, but has been postponed due to COVID-19. It was directed by iele paloumpis in collaboration with Marielys Burgos-Meléndez, Seta Morton, Alejandra Ospina, Monica Rodriguez, Ogemdi Ude, Krishna Washburn, Adrien Weibgen and Marýa Wethers. For more information, please visit inplaceofcatastrophe.com The project featured in this doc was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative and Production Residency Program funded by the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; with

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about absences which leave a mark. An unexpected visitor, a haunted literature and a grandson searches for the truth about a grandmother he never knew.Ghosts Featuring Mariana EnríquezUnexpected Guests (Extract) Produced by Phoebe Judge, Lauren Spohrer, and Nadia Wilson Originally made for the podcast CriminalAlicia Written and produced by Sayre Quevedo, with editing by Cristal Duhaime, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Sarah Geis, mixed by Mira Burt-Wintonick Originally made for the podcast Love MeBeloved Featuring Toni Morrison Produced by Shanida ScotlandProduction Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Programming a stand up comedian, learning to challenge ideas of perfectionism through tending a garden, and poems looking towards a more empathetic future. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring our visions of the future. S.E.I.N.F.E.L.D. Produced by Ross Sutherland Originally produced for Imaginary Advice Learning/Unlearning Featuring Ciarra Jones Produced by Erisa ApantakuThe Missing Featuring Roger Robinson Produced by Alia CassamProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about hinterlands - areas lying beyond what is visible or known. From how to read the dangers and possibilities of public space to the space you might inhabit after you die.When You're Gone, You're Gone (extract) Presented / composed by Jocelyn Pook Produced by Kate Bland A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3Jarman's Garden Produced by Sherre DeLys Music by Chris AbrahamsCruising Produced by Mara LazerWhen You're Gone, You're Gone (extract 2) Presented / composed by Jocelyn Pook Produced by Kate Bland A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about leaving places behind. From zip wiring over the Iron Curtain, to reflecting on lost connections with your country of origin and a poem remembering the thousands of people lost to the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Zip Wire Featuring Daniel Pohl Produced by Andrea Rangecrofthalf / half Featuring Hannah Kendaru, Lou Kendaru and Remi Kendaru Co-created by Lou and Hannah Kendaru. Produced by Lou Kendaru First developed for Future Currents hosted by The Doing GroupSeed of the Fruit Featuring Mark 'Mr T' Thompson Produced by Alan Hall With the voice of Cherise Hamilton-Stephenson Statistics from slavevoyages.org Commissioned by the National Maritime Museum for UNESCO’s International Day for the Rembrance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its AbolitionProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Short documentaries and adventures in sound about quiz shows and queries for an uncertain future. Presented by Josie Long.Google Oracle Produced by Annina LehmannThe $64,000 Question Produced by Jodie Taylor from Fat Rat FilmsThe Interview Featuring Laura BartonProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by Virginia Woolf's idea of Moments of Being."I find that scene making is my natural way of marking the past. Always a scene has arranged itself: representative; enduring. This confirms me in my instinctive notion (it will not bear arguing about; it is irrational) the sensation that we are sealed vessels afloat on what it is convenient to call reality; and at some moments, the sealing matter cracks; in floods reality; that is, these scenes - for why do they survive undamaged year after year unless they are made of something comparatively permanent?"Waves Featuring Milton Dawes Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick Music by Carl VézinaHow It Felt Featuring Sofia Saldanha, Katharina Smets and Ariel Mejia Produced by Eleanor McDowallThe Fear Featuring Erisa Apantaku Produced by James T. Green28 hours Featuring Beverley Bass Produced by Andrea RangecroftProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling

From a tender dance and the absence of a lover to the music a tongue makes as it touches the inside of your mouth - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the sensation of touch.Hard To Say Featuring Ed Werler Produced by Bente BirkelandTongue Tied Produced by Sami El-EnanyREGARDS TOP UP YOUR OWN ARTWORK FOR Feauring. Alexandra Smith and Angus Rogers Produced by Phil SmithLanguage is Born of Absence Produced by Mara LazerProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about remixing and reinventing the world. Jonathan Zenti builds something new from undelivered audio projects, Scottee's grandad becomes an emerging artist and we hear reimagined whale song.* Porn Whales Originally made for In The Dark Radio www.inthedarkradio.org Produced by Ed Prosser* Apology Letter Produced by Jonathan Zenti* No Need to Shout Featuring Scottee and Liam Gallagher Produced by Alia Cassam* The Toilets at Home Are All Gender Neutral Produced by Arlie AdlingtonProduction Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.

Lying on your back and gazing at the stars in Australia, viewing the world through the eyes of a little dog and venturing outside your home - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the outside world.Emu in the Sky Featuring Krystal DeNapoli Produced by Krystal DeNapoli, Michelle Macklem, and Zoe TennantPaws for Thought (featuring Little Oblong) Produced by Phil SmithThe Outside Produced by Hana Walker-BrownProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.

Josie Long presents short documentaries about the writers and musicians whose words help us navigate the difficult moments in our lives. From James Baldwin to Adrienne Rich, the lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers to a new poem by Axel Kacoutié.* James Baldwin in conversation with Studs Terkel Originally broadcast in 1961 Courtesy of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive* For george, breonna, ahmaud, and christian Produced by James T. Green Originally made for the podcast u+1f60c* Dedications Featuring Mary Jean Chan Produced by Alia Cassam Featuring recordings of Adrienne Rich from the audio archives of the public radio show, New Letters on the Air, a production of New Letters magazine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City* The Watertank Featuring Damian Le Bas Produced by Andrea Rangecroft* You Got Through the Day Produced by Axel KacoutiéProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures with and about kids. Exploring the world through the eyes of a little boy, beauty pageants for children, a weather forecast takeover and finding a newborn on the subway.*Let’s Get Lost TogetherFeaturing Eligh Moon Produced by Sara Brooke Curtis *Beauty Queen Dropout Featuring Samara Addai Produced by Deborah Shorinde*The Random Weather ReportFeaturing Niamh and Tommy Produced by Chris Attaway Originally produced for Audio Playground audioplayground.xyz*Bundle on the SubwayFeaturing Pete Mercurio and Danny StewartProduced by Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.