Short Cuts

Returning to an old flame, a snapshot of a break-up and a cascade of crushes - Josie Long presents short romantic documentaries about falling in and out of love. Crushing Produced by Erisa Apantaku We've Only Just Begun Featuring Ben Bryant and Elizabeth Hepburn Produced by Olivia Humphreys Snapshot Featuring Scottee and Brian Teeling Produced by Scottee Photo credit: Brian Teeling Series Producer...

The horror of renting, childhood pranks and being a woman online - Josie Long presents terrifying short documentaries and adventures in sound. Fictional horror stories begin to creep into a writer's real life as she finds herself followed across the internet by an anonymous poster. Two young women discover their perfect new rental property marred by one small flaw - a man secretly living in their...

Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas. A joyful Christmas scene discovered on an old tape, a poet holds the beauty and melancholy of a trip home on Christmas Eve, and Albert Woodfox reflects on 40 years of enforced isolation and the illumination and comfort offered by a group of schoolchildren in Liverpool. Forwards and Backwards Featuring The Djursland F...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the days after a life-altering event and imagining better futures. Three children look for the memory of their father on a baseball field, a resettled community wonders where they belong to and the writer Lola Olufemi offers experiments for imagining an alternative world. Andromeda is a Baseball Diamond Produced by Ariel Mejia Resettl...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about how our sense of self collides with the world outside. Two Russian journalists find their lives turned inside out when they are classified as foreign agents, Keanu Reeves offers inspiration for one writer navigating his mixed-race identity, and a virtual world offers freedom and new possibilities for a man with Parkinson’s disease....

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries about what’s gone before. A daughter’s decades-long search for her father who went missing as a political prisoner in South Africa, a poem by the German-American poet Lisel Mueller listing the parts that make up our memories, and the writer and comedian Heidi O’Loughlin untangles the stories woven into and around her Polynesian identity....

A writer wonders if she has been cursed by the comedian Stewart Lee, a man builds his home beside an active volcano, and the story of a clothes peg and it's strange, romantic power. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about luck, superstition and surrendering to chaos. Sandwiches Featuring Laura Barton and Stewart Lee Kilauea Featuring Gary Sleik Produced by Thomas Phillip...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the colour red. A redhead in a crowd of redheads, exploring notes of red on the piano, and a nation’s relationship with the colour red. Roodharigendag (Redhead days) Featuring Shelby Vittek Produced by Gaby Caplan and Ellie Lightfoot The Little Red Piano Featuring Duncan Honeybourne Produced by Flora Zajicek Our home on native land Pr...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about guiding lights and those who have gone before - from finding connection with someone whose last dance was over a century ago to one of the last people in the UK to have performed an old ritual. Breath is Life (extract) Featuring Eileen Kramer Produced by Eleanor McDowall You belong to the land, and the land belongs to you Featur...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about what remains hidden from view. A writer learns more than she would like about her lover's past conquests and a man wrestles with hyper-visibility as he walks home. Everything, Nothing Featuring Laura Barton Surveillance Produced by Derick Armah and Ivan d'Avoine Into Shadow Featuring John Colverson Produced by Phil Smith Curatorial...

Short documentaries about repetition with Josie Long. 195 ways to thank someone for their letter, avoiding getting stuck in a thought loop and a tender exchange over breakfast. Thanks For Your Letter Written and read by Joe Dunthorne Meditation Produced by Ellie Lightfoot and Miles Mercer Checking One's Levels Produced by Talia Augustidis Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series P...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding tenderness. Conversations with cats, the sound of a piano drifts through the night and a memory of old, lost love. Cat Chat Produced by Danny Greenwald The Piano Produced by Sofia Saldanha Originally made for Centro de Dramaturgia e Argumento (CeDA) and Antena 2 Marianne Marianne Ihlen interview recorded by Alan Hall Origin...

Audio adventures and short documentaries about gaming, presented by Josie Long. The joy and frustration of new adventures, fast cars and family days out at the M6 Southwaite Services, and finding love by the fountain in Dalaran. Go South Produced by Mae-Li Evans Pole Position Featuring Steve, Alistair and Sandy Urquhart Produced by Steve Urquhart Meet you at the fountain in Dalaran Featuring Miche...

Josie Long presents short documentaries about portals and gateways. A safe passage into the world, a scent which can take you somewhere else and a swim in the moonlight to heal a broken heart. Eider Produced by Rikke Houd Portals Featuring Courtney Rafuse Produced by Aliya Pabani To the Moon Featuring Marta Medvesek Produced by Marta Medvesek and Phoebe McIndoe Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and And...

Otherworldly encounters with a painting that comes to life, a surprise connection and a magical summoning... Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the surreal worlds of the artist and writer Leonora Carrington, a decade on from her death. Leonora Carrington Interviewed by John Silver (1992) Archive courtesy of John Silver Down Below Produced by Nanna Hauge Kriste...

Josie Long presents short documentaries about illumination, the breaking of a new day, healing and hope. Light in the Winter Forest Written and read by Anna Selby First published in Field Notes (Hazel Press) Call Me Mother Featuring Sandra Caldwell and Shon Faye Produced by Thomas Curry The original version of this interview was produced for the Call Me Mother podcast from the production company N...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about our connection to the land. The devastation of bushfires in south eastern Australia, the significance of the acorn for tribal members from the Konkow Nisenan Maidu Nations, and the storyteller Richard O’Neill on the stopping places woven into the British landscape. Then came the birds Featuring Alice Ansara Produced by Sarah Mashma...

Audio adventures and short documentaries about music, presented by Josie Long. The soundtrack to an exploration of queerness, moments of transcendence in Indian classical music, and the folk singer Rowan Rheingans on her musical homage to a Dutch Jewish diarist. Etty Featuring Rowan Rheingans Produced by Alia Cassam Nada - On Being Sound Featuring Pandit Uday Bhawalkar With thanks to Romila Thapar...

Josie Long presents magical short documentaries and audio adventures about illusions. From a series of magical failures to an illusion which helped steer someone safely home. Magic Mike Produced by Mike Williams Third Man Factor Produced by Olivia Humphreys Sand Produced by Ariel Mejia Curatorial Team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Exec Producer: Zakia Sewell...

Josie Long presents visceral short documentaries and audio adventures about - or made to engage - the senses. From the taste of a soup nearly lost to a storm, to a collective kiss in. Kiss Featuring Ted Brown Produced by Olivia Humphreys Gow Gei Produced by Jess Ho and Michelle Macklem Restless Texture Featuring Ajay Chandra and Trish Cummings Produced by Calum Perrin Curatorial team: Alia Cassam...

A hush descends as Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about silence. From an artwork that pulls sounds outside of the range of human hearing within it - vibrations in the soil, the sound of bats in Senegal caught on a supersonic microphone - to a story about the silence which lies between generations in a family. Winter Forest, Bala, Ontario on 2nd December 2020 Recorded...

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about looking for completion. A son who finishes his mother’s novel, a family returning to a sacred place and an exploration of a body as ‘an unfinished product’. Return to Iraq Featuring Zohra Aly and Amina Alimohamed The Four Corners of the Heart Featuring Denis Westhoff BBC Archive of Françoise Sagan, 1989 Produced by Hannah Dean PMHx...

Short documentaries and adventures in sound about the colour blue, presented by Josie Long. From a view of the earth from space to an affinity with the ocean. A Blue Gem Below Featuring Jessica Meir Produced by Lauren Armstrong Carter The Blue of Dover Featuring Naji Ali Produced by Hunter Charlton and Ben Tulloh A version of this story first appeared on the SwimOut podcast Almost Blue Featuring L...

Short documentaries and adventures in sound about artworks and artists, presented by Josie Long. From an audio re-imagining of Bridget Riley to the work of a courtroom sketch artist. The Mandjet A response to Shih-Li by Bridget Riley Produced by Sami El-Enany Adipositivity Project Featuring Substantia Jones Produced by Ellie Lightfoot with sound design by Miles Mercer Drawing From The Gallery Feat...

Short documentaries and adventures in sound which take place under the light of the moon, presented by Josie Long. From a night swim across a freezing cold lake to the writer Courttia Newland on astral projection. Home In Darkness Featuring Courttia Newland Produced by Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi Bernard The Night Swimmer Featuring the voice of Marilyn Korzekwa and the sounds of Lake Superior Produce...