

Short Cuts
BBC Radio 4
Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
Episodes
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Apr 7, 2015 • 28min
Here Be Dragons
Josie Long hears stories of seeing double.A baby monitor which opens up a terrifying world, an explorer who ventures into the unknown and a woman who longs to disappear into space.Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2015.

Nov 11, 2014 • 30min
The Double
Josie Long hears stories of seeing double.
Tales of dopplegangers, identity theft and a woman who offered a living counterpart to dead composers. Featuring a new 'documentary song' from Gaggle.Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2014.

Nov 4, 2014 • 28min
Nothing
Josie Long presents stories about absence and nothing.A decades long murder mystery about the death of a man who never existed, the story of losing someone you never knew and a first time treasure hunter finds something against the odds but ends up with nothing.Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2014.

Oct 28, 2014 • 29min
After Dark
Josie Long presents tales of blackouts, late nights and bedtime stories.Love found after a blackout, telephone counselling for bereaved rock star managers and erotica for the elderly.Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2014.

Oct 21, 2014 • 31min
Behind The Curtain
Josie Long peers behind the curtain to reveal stories from behind the scenes.There's secret telephone discos for cold calling salesmen, moral dilemmas which emerge behind the scenes on a reality television show and Joe Dunthorne attempts to gain access to the OULIPO.Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2014.

Oct 14, 2014 • 28min
Connections
A message in a bottle, cast into the ocean, reaches a woman who needs it.A lifeboat adrift and isolated in icy waters and a crackling, radio connection offers a lifeline between friends. Josie Long hears tales of making contact.
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2014.

Oct 7, 2014 • 29min
Rabbit Holes
Josie Long dives down a rabbit hole in this sequence of short documentaries, true stories and radio adventures.We hear tales of a spam email that alters the course of two people's lives and a mysterious monument made out of shoes at a deserted intersection in rural Indiana.Miranda July leads us into another world with her story of swim coaching an elderly team in a town near no large bodies of water.
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2014.

May 6, 2014 • 28min
Explorers
Josie Long goes on an adventure as she presents a sequence of mini documentaries about exploration.
With tales of riding cellos down the mountain side and romantic exploration on the U Bahn.
Great Bear Rainforest
Produced by Elizabeth Arnold
Die Fremde
Produced by Phil Smith
Out of the Blocks (Extract)
Produced by Aaron Henkin and electronic musician Wendel Patrick
Everest Glissando
Feat. Stephen Venables
Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
Producer: Eleanor McDowall.A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2014.

Apr 29, 2014 • 28min
Mystery
Josie Long investigates small mysteries in this sequence of mini documentaries.
Hearing tales of ghost ships, hidden underground kingdoms and the disappointment of discovering the banality of your family's secrets.
The items featured in the programme are:
Finding Sumo
Produced by Bob Carlson
First broadcast in 'Family Justice' on UnFictional:
Love Letters
Feat. Alan Dearn
Ryou-Un Maru
Produced by Martin Johnson
The Underground Kingdom
Feat. Ross Sutherland
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2014.

Apr 22, 2014 • 28min
Anonymity
Josie Long presents a sequence of mini documentaries exploring what happens when nobody knows your name.
From our transgressions online through to an unusual love affair between two strangers who had never set eyes on each other, Josie hears how anonymity can both ensnare and liberate us.
Featuring:
Long Distance
Feat. Victor LaValle
Produced by Katie Burningham
Undercover
Feat. Fergal Keane
The Mollusc and the Peacock
Produced by Natalie Kestecher
Anonymous
Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.


