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Short Cuts: Series 19: Press Record

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Josie Long presents stories of significant recordings impacting people's lives, including a last tape of a loved one. From 2019.

The sounds of an empty apartment, the last tape of a loved one, the bootleg VHS tapes that helped inspire a musical movement and an erotic audio audition are at the heart of this edition of Short Cuts. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about significant recordings that have impacted people's lives.

That DAT
Produced by Natalie Kestecher

The Stains
Featuring Diane Lane and Allison Wolfe
Produced by Allyson McCabe

Sound Portrait of a Flat
Produced by Jessica Gordon Braye

A Place for Us
Featuring Tricia Davies Nearn
Produced by Alan Hall

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.

Short Cuts: Series 19

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

Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long

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