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Short Cuts: Series 31: I Will Wait For You

I Will Wait For You

Series 31

BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts, Series 31, I Will Wait For You

Short documentaries about waiting, yearning and anxiously anticipating with Josie Long.

Josie Long presents short documentaries and works of sound art about waiting, yearning and anxiously anticipating.

A wait of 33 years between a marriage proposal and a response, a skittish piano tries to avoid the stage and a young boy looks out to sea waiting for his father. Josie Long presents short documentaries and works of sound art about waiting, yearning and anxiously anticipating.

Skittish Piano
Produced by Eleanor McDowall

Isabel and Alf
Featuring Isabel Bader
Produced by Kalli Anderson 
Thank you to Isabel Bader, Ruth Clarke and Olivia Richardson.

The Voice of the Sea
Feat.uring Abel Coentrão
Produced by Rebecca Nolan

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Short Cuts: Series 31

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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