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Short Cuts: The Sea, The Sea

The Sea, The Sea

BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts, The Sea, The Sea

Short documentaries on crashing waves and diving under the water. Presented by Josie Long.

Short documentaries about crashing waves and diving beneath the surface of the water. Presented by Josie Long. From 2020.

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the sea.

The sounds of the sea, whispers into a wind phone and the dark, silent nights in Lyø, Denmark; a writer reflects on women dreaming of diving beneath the surface of the water; an Hawaiian surfer describes the exhilaration of riding through the barrel of a wave and stories from cliff-edge towns in the UK as the water comes ever-closer.

The Wave
Featuring Clyde Aikau
Music by Cabinet of Living Cinema
Produced by Sarah Cuddon

The Widow of the Sea
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen

Dreaming
Featuring Margaret Drabble
Originally recorded by Sarah Cuddon for The Diving Venus

The View from the Edge
Featuring Darcy Bayless and Juliet Blaxland who has written a book about her experiences in a cliff edge house called The Easternmost House.
Produced by Chloe White and Jodie Taylor

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2020.

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