Short Cuts Podcast
A BBC Radio 4 podcast for new short documentaries presented by Josie Long. Produced by Falling Tree
27/11/2023
Great to see that Sarah Craig's 'Toughie' - produced for our Short Cuts episode 'An Ending' - is nominated for this year's International Documentary Association Awards for Best Standalone Audio Documentary!
IDA Documentary Awards 2023 Nominees This year the IDA Documentary Awards shortlists and nominees are selected by independent committees of 280 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 40 countries. We received 669 total submissions in all categories from 48 countries.
23/11/2023
Congratulations to Sarah Craig for her win in the Sustainability category at last night's Audio Production Awards!
You can listen to her feature 'Toughie' in the Short Cuts episode 'An Ending; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mlql
Congratulations to Phoebe McIndoe too who has contributed multiple wonderful Short Cuts over the past few years! Her win was for our Falling Tree Productions podcast 'Lights Out', made in collaboration with Redzi Bernard. Listen to 'County Lines' on the Lights Out podcast!
Liminal prose and cryptic hotlines. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures navigating our relationship and imaginations to history collecting in today's Short Cuts podcast for BBC Radio 4
Featuring new work from Weyland Mckenzie-Witter, Kamikaze Jones, Abira Hussein and Olani Ewunnet
Produced and mixed by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Made by Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4 https://podfollow.com/655015882
Getting lost in childhood longings, the search for the home we carry inside ourselves and exploring true sexual desire in a world shaped by media and societal pressures.
Listen to 'Heart's Desire' on the Short Cuts podcast: https://podfollow.com/655015882
Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that explore our desires in today's BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts. Featuring documentaries from Phoebe McIndoe, Jaye Kranz and Conor O'Toole
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Mix by Mike Woolley
Creature Features in today's BBC Radio 4 halloween Short Cuts with Josie Long... 🦗🕸🦑
Dive below the surface of the water, see what's lurking in dark, damp basements and cast your eyes up to the skies with the first documentary about pigeons made *for* pigeons... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rydp
Featuring John Luke Roberts (pictured showing a pigeon meme to a small gathering of pigeons), Meera Kumar and Jesse Dukes.
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Mix by Mike Woolley
Made by Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
A remnant from the Cold War becomes an accidental haven for wildlife, a poet and a tree surgeon search for the roots of a metaphor, and a musician searches for an anchor to home. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the ground beneath your feet.
Featuring Tendertwin, Raymond Antrobus Poet, Tom Phillips, Kai Frobel and Matthew Reid
Listen to The Soil:
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series producer: Eleanor McDowall
Mix by Mike Woolley
Made by Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
Mark Mandica tenderly tells the story of an ending he knew - Toughie - a Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog, the last of his kind.
We were glad to see that Sarah Craig has been nominated at this year's Audio UK Audio Production Awards in their Sustainability category for her work on this feature.
Listen to 'Toughie' in the Short Cuts episode 'An Ending' (June 2023)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mlql
Visions and out of body experiences during birth, tender, fragile hopes and a name that stretches back through time - Josie Long presents short documentaries about coming into the world in BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts this afternoon.
Featuring short documentaries and works of sound art from Kalli Anderson, apè Aliermo, Nanna Hauge Kristensen and Kagiso Mnisi
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Mixed by Mike Woolley https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rgxz
"What do you give an old bird? You give her a scarf!"
We love this Henry Joynson animation of Natalie Kestecher and her mother in 'The Gift' (Feb 2021)
Search for 'Mistaken Identity' on the Short Cuts podcast to hear more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6m9jt
"I think sometimes when relationships like that come to an end we can leave holding the last conversations..."
A tender conversation between Scottee and Brian Teeling around a photograph and a moment of intimacy.
Hear 'Snapshot' in 'The Lovers' on the Short Cuts Podcast (February 2022) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014p83
Notes to Self and Sonic Symmetry. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring what it looks like coming back to yourself in today's BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts...
Featuring new documentaries from Jess Shane, Alan Goffinski, Sarita Bhatt, Christina Hardinge and Jack Miguel: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r82f
Produced and mixed by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Short Cuts is made by Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
08/10/2023
“Short Cuts is creative and rather beautiful radio… It's innovative audio storytelling at its best… With this kind of radio-making, you get so much more than the story – the listener is invited to share in the experience…”
Great to see this review of our Signal to Noise episode in this weekend's Irish News radio column! With a special mention for Ross Sutherland's 'Hallucinations' feature too...
Radio Review: Brief encounters to make beautiful radio Short Cuts: Signal to Noise, Radio 4 Brief encounters, true stories – Short Cuts is creative and rather beautiful radio.
"Listening is very unsettling..."
Hear 'Mattie's Broadcast', produced by Veronica Simmonds, in the Short Cuts Podcast episode 'Radio' (September 2022)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001brp6
A simple object offers comfort and connection to a grandmother and a long line of Indian women; a wife uncovers the fingerprints her husband left on their world and with them, the microscopic details of grief; and an Urdu language lesson between a father and daughter reveals cultural loss and the father's longing to belong. Josie Long presents short documentaries that reverberate through time in today's BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts.
Listen to 'Echoes' to hear new work from Safwat Saleem, HJ Radia and Amanda Priestley
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Mixed by Mike Woolley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r1gp
“I'm gonna go with Nick and Sanjay to send a lamb chop into space - what you doing tonight?”
Listen to Short Cuts: Mistaken Identity (June 2018)https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6m9jt
Unconnected from us, the University of Chester sets Short Cuts as one of their animation course assignments. We love getting sent the one minute features from the students - like this Kim Roberts animation of producer Alia Cassam's interview with Rebecca Tamás...
First broadcast in Short Cuts: Tarot (March 2020)
Hear it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fvvk
A small boy accidentally creates a vast new lizard population in his hometown, Joe Dunthorne takes his family on a precarious family boat trip and a sonic storm gathers…
Josie Long presents short docs on situations tumbling out of control in 'The Tipping Point'.
Featuring the voice of Steve Urquhart, Joe Dunthorne accompanied by his son and new lizard-inspired work by Jennifer McCord and Carrie Ann Welsh
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft. Produced by Eleanor McDowall and mixed by Mike Woolley
Short Cuts is a Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qtb5
“I don’t reckon [email protected] is a work email address”
Listen to Alex Edelman’s story of stolen identities (prod Sophie Black) in the Short Cuts episode ‘Copycat’ (October 2015)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kcbvy
"I was somewhere mid-air... the day could not contain me..."
Laura Barton offers a tender exploration of complex, enduring love.
Listen to Short Cuts: Tough Love (August 2017): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092fhwg
25/09/2023
"I’m going to argue that this is one of the most important programmes on UK radio... there really aren’t too many places you can experience half-hour documentaries, let alone anything shorter. Radio 4 is one of the few outlets where you can... Short Cuts encourage[s] new, outsider creators into audio. You never know what you’re going to get: how many shows can you truly say that about?"
We're utterly over the moon to see this Miranda Sawyer review of Short Cuts in yesterday's Observer! Great to see shout outs for the work of Ross Sutherland, Liza Yeager and Fil Corbitt too!
Catch up with 'Signal to Noise' on the Short Cuts podcast
The week in audio: Cillian Murphy’s Limited Edition; Short Cuts; Beyond the Bathroom; Crypto Kingpins – review The actor lets his mind-expanding music do the talking; aural hallucinations are par for the course on one of UK radio’s most important shows; and Candice Brathwaite brings beauty to life
23/09/2023
"In the latest episode of Short Cuts, poet and audio producer Ross Sutherland discussed his issues with hearing and the way his brain has somehow started mixing up sound and memory. This short, intense documentary - full of audio tricks and textures - was evocative, a little troubling and rather poetic. I could hear the echo of it throughout the rest of that day..."
https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/23801166.people-feel-need-climb-mountains/
Listen to Signal to Noise on the Short Cuts podcast... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmbr
BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts, Series 36, Signal to Noise Josie Long presents short documentaries on finding meaning amid the noise.
Dee Dee Conover, from a family of lighthouse keepers in Maine, talks to radio producer Michel Montreuil about her encounter with a sickly whale...
Animation by Rosanna Wan
From the first ever series of Short Cuts (The Comfort of Strangers, January 2012) https://podfollow.com/655015882
“The thing with almost loves is they have a way of seeping into your bones…”
Listen to Nikita Gill's ‘Jewels from the Sun’ in Short Cuts: Acts of Love (February 2021) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s9vd
"Somehow art is always threatening the paradigm of its time..."
Listen to a rare archive interview with the artist Leonora Carrington, recorded by John Silver in 1992. Featured in our episode dedicated to her otherworldly, surreal, magical work.
Short Cuts: Leonora Carrington features Sami El-Enany, Nanna Hauge Kristensen and Sarah Cuddon (August 2021)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ykqh
If you enjoyed yesterday's Short Cuts, Signal to Noise, you can also listen / watch Ross Sutherland's feature on auditory hallucinations via this captioned video on the BBC Radio 4 website... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gf9m9d
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