Short Cuts

Josie Long hears stories of heartbreak. Difficult love, women encoded in music and rebuilding yourself after you've been broken.Laura Barton offers a tender exploration of complex, enduring love, Natalie Kestecher rebuilds herself after a sudden shock and we dive into the sound of heartache.Tough Love Featuring Laura BartonTwenty-Three Produced by Alan HallKintsugi Dog Produced by Natalie Kestecher Mix by Steven TilleySeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Josie Long hears stories of duets, the perfect conversational dance and gatecrashing honeymoons. She also talks to the other half of her long-running comedy partnership - Robin Ince.The poet John Osborne delves into late night radio phone in conversations, the artist Duncan Speakman invites the listener to engage in a duet and Phil Smith intrudes on a romantic moment.Towards Produced by Phil SmithA Duet for Here and There Written and produced by Duncan Speakman With conceptual development by Tineke De MeyerLate Night Radio Phone In Written by John OsborneSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2017.

A memory caught in a childhood drawing and a repeat encounter which offers hope at a point of despair - Josie Long explores the afterimage left by moments that touch us.We hear from Sion Jair who climbs mountains as a way to cope with disappearing memories. Sophie Townsend finds an image from her daughter's childhood, which captures a difficult moment from their past. And Dylan Park, five years after his first deployment to Iraq, finds an unexpected reminder of his first tour in Arizona.Brahim Featuring Dylan ParkMr Fix-It Produced by Sophie TownsendMountains Featuring Sion Jair Produced by Andrea RangecroftSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2017.

Josie Long hears stories of bearing witness - from glimpsing the moment a parent changes to escaping a violent storm.Witness Featuring Lois Gibson Produced by Andrea RangecroftTornado Featuring David Walker, Lindsay Martindale and Tobey Walker Produced by Ibby Caputo Music SFX from theming, digifishmusic, wjoojoo, davethetech, fridobeck, InspectorJ and Robinhood76Scaffold Featuring Mark Thomas Produced by Sarah CuddonSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2017.

Josie Long hears stories of our desire to pause - from dismantling a house which seems stopped in time to the difficulties of watching your child grow up.The House by the Creek Produced by Sophie TownsendPony Produced by Ibby CaputoPrivate Black Motherhood and Public White Protest Originally made for the Hope Chest podcast https://stacialbrown.com/tag/hope-chest-podcast/ Produced by Stacia BrownSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2017.

Defiantly staring down neo-Nazis, unwanted family portraits and a photographer searching for his subject years later - Josie Long presents new short documentaries inspired by images.Woman in the Photo Produced by Andrea RangecroftResistance Featuring Tess Asplund Produced by Andrea RangecroftFamily Portrait Featuring Chimene Suleyman and Recep Süleyman ŞehitoğluSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2017.(Photo credit: Nathan Edwards/News Corp Australia)

Josie Long presents documentaries where reality takes on a magical aspect - tales of snake-filled American towns, a visit to a shaman and of crashing back down to earth.The Curve of the Earth Produced by Stephanie Rowden http://www.stephanierowden.comThe Shaman Produced by Rikke HoudSnake Pit, Waurika Produced by Sarah GeisMagical Realism Produced by Phil SmithSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2017.

Personality tests, tests of character and knowing how to cheat. Josie Long presents stories of people testing their mettle.The writers Ross Sutherland and Joe Dunthorne examine the Sutherland-Dunthorne luck index to see why one's success seems to mean the other's failure. James Acaster embarks on a quest in search of connection and oversized novelty letters, and we hear the story of two men who knew how to deceive the people examining them.The Wow Scenario Featuring James AcasterProject Alpha Featuring Mike Edwards Produced by Claire CroftonThe Sutherland-Dunthorne Inverse Proportional Luck Index Featuring Joe Dunthorne and Ross SutherlandSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2017.

Josie Long presents stories of messages sent across borders. Unsent postcards, a last message and the journey for home.An old handwritten note, in pursuit of a woman who ran away, leads to a town submerged in water; the writer Laura Barton discovers a tranche of muted, unsent missives in a storage box; and we hear the voices of those who are far from home.Dear Martha Produced by Rikke HoudEnvision Yourself a Free Man First made as part of the Restorative Radio project http://www.restorativeradio.org/audio-postcards-2/ Produced by Sylvia RyersonA Very Different Time Produced by Phil SmithUnsent Featuring Laura BartonSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."Josie Long presents short documentaries and radio adventures in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut, shortly before the tenth anniversary of his death - from peculiar travel suggestions to the kindness contained in a library. The writer Joe Dunthorne also engages Vonnegut in a dialogue, inspired by God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian.We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is. Produced by Phil SmithPeculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God Featuring Roger Haworth, Evan Doorbell and Mark Bernay Produced by Cicely FellReporter on the Afterlife Featuring Joe Dunthorne and Kurt VonnegutSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallAFalling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in March 2017.