Short Cuts

As the days lengthen and a new season approaches, Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the Rilke poem Early Spring. The People Who Feel Featuring Henry Córdova Produced by Ariana Martinez Falling Like Blossom Featuring Naoko Abe Produced by Sarah Cuddon Lilia is Listening Originally made for the podcast Love Me https://www.cbc.ca/radio/loveme/in-the-distance-1.4899506 Produced by Sara Brooke Curtis, with Cristal Duhaime, Mira Burt-Wintonick and Sarah Geis Mix by Cristal Duhaime Readings by Stacia Brown Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about translation, interpretation and ideas that resonate in the gap between words - from the connection between one man and his translator, through Benjamin Clementine's interpretation of Satie, to the work of an ASL/English interpreter. In Translation Featuring Miwako Ozawa and Hiromitsu Shinkawa A version of this story first appeared in the BBC World Service documentary Found in Translation made by Whistledown Productions https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03l3jxj Produced by Rose de Larrabeiti Gymnopédie Featuring Benjamin Clementine Produced by Mooj Zadie The Go-Between Featuring Christopher Desloges Music: Scorch by Nctrnm from the Free Music Archive Produced by Aliya Pabani Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents a series of short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the work of the Oulipo, a loose collective of writers and mathematicians who use playful constraints in their work to spark new ideas. The Oulipo's name - Ouvroir de littérature potentielle - roughly translates as 'the workshop of potential literature'. They have produced works such as Georges Perec's La Disparition; A Void in the English translation, in which the letter e never appears; If on a Winter's Night a Traveller..., Italo Calvino's novel which features ten different first chapters of novels; and Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, in which the same story is retold 99 times in a different style. Our workshop for potential radio features literary reviews, audio games and new stories from Joe Dunthorne, Jon Tjhia, John-Luke Roberts and Ross Sutherland. As Far As The I Produced by Jon Tjhia Peanut Butter Featuring Joe Dunthorne A Void Featuring John-Luke Roberts The Other Ross Sutherland Featuring Roddy Forsyth and Ross Sutherland An alternate version of this story first appeared on the podcast Imaginary Advice Produced by Ross Sutherland Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Falling space debris sparks an adventure across continents - and underpants dangling from a tree push a woman into a downward spiral. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about The Descent. The King and I Produced by Natalie Kestecher Skylab Featuring Stan Thornton Produced by Hannah Dean Seven Miles Deep Featuring Don Walsh Produced by Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents fragmentary short documentaries about lost memories. Searching for a half-remembered past, shape-shifting, elusive personal histories, forgetting yourself and a story of societal forgetting. Mother of Memory Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen Seven Magic Mountains Featuring Laura Barton The Trace of A Cloud In A Chest (extract) You can listen to the feature in full here: https://soundcloud.com/charles-parker-prize/the-trace-of-a-cloud-in-a-chest-by-weidong-lin-silver-2015 Produced by Weidong Lin The Forgotten Produced by Karla Marie Sweet Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4