Short Cuts

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries on the words we use to express ourselves. An artist explores new ways to talk about pain, an activist tries to live authentically in a lan…

Returning to an old flame, a snapshot of a break-up and a cascade of crushes - Josie Long presents short romantic documentaries about falling in and out of love.

Crushing Produced by Erisa Apantaku

We'…

The horror of renting, childhood pranks and being a woman online - Josie Long presents terrifying short documentaries and adventures in sound.

Fictional horror stories begin to creep into a writer's …

Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas.

A joyful Christmas scene discovered on an old tape, a poet holds the beauty and melancholy of a trip home on Christmas…

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the days after a life-altering event and imagining better futures.

Three children look for the memory of their father on a baseball fie…

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about how our sense of self collides with the world outside.

Two Russian journalists find their lives turned inside out when they are clas…

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries about what’s gone before. A daughter’s decades-long search for her father who went missing as a political prisoner in South Africa, a poem…

A writer wonders if she has been cursed by the comedian Stewart Lee, a man builds his home beside an active volcano, and the story of a clothes peg and it's strange, romantic power.

Josie Long presen…

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the colour red. A redhead in a crowd of redheads, exploring notes of red on the piano, and a nation’s relationship with the colour red.…

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about guiding lights and those who have gone before - from finding connection with someone whose last dance was over a century ago to o…

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about what remains hidden from view. A writer learns more than she would like about her lover's past conquests and a man wrestles with hyp…

Short documentaries about repetition with Josie Long. 195 ways to thank someone for their letter, avoiding getting stuck in a thought loop and a tender exchange over breakfast.

Thanks For Your Letter …

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding tenderness. Conversations with cats, the sound of a piano drifts through the night and a memory of old, lost love.

Cat Chat P…

Audio adventures and short documentaries about gaming, presented by Josie Long. The joy and frustration of new adventures, fast cars and family days out at the M6 Southwaite Services, and finding lo…

Josie Long presents short documentaries about portals and gateways. A safe passage into the world, a scent which can take you somewhere else and a swim in the moonlight to heal a broken heart.

Eider P…

Otherworldly encounters with a painting that comes to life, a surprise connection and a magical summoning... Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the surreal world…

Josie Long presents short documentaries about illumination, the breaking of a new day, healing and hope.

Light in the Winter Forest Written and read by Anna Selby First published in Field Notes (Hazel…

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about our connection to the land. The devastation of bushfires in south eastern Australia, the significance of the acorn for tribal member…

Audio adventures and short documentaries about music, presented by Josie Long. The soundtrack to an exploration of queerness, moments of transcendence in Indian classical music, and the folk singer R…

Josie Long presents magical short documentaries and audio adventures about illusions. From a series of magical failures to an illusion which helped steer someone safely home.

Magic Mike Produced by Mi…