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Short Cuts: Series 5: Anonymity

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Josie Long explores what happens when nobody knows your true identity

Josie Long presents stories of nobody knowing your name, from transgressions online to an unusual love affair. From 2014.

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 McDowall

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.

Short Cuts: Series 5

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Josie Long presents a showcase for short documentaries from the UK and abroad

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