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• Heartbreakers: the story of all-girl Zep
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• A Time of Evening
• Animation: Dee Dee Conover
• Animation: Jack and Jeffrey Lewis
• Animation: Short Cuts Ident
• Curated: My Share of the Sky
• Rhapsody of Light
• Short Cuts: Can't Rewind the Past - Into the Wild
• Short Cuts: Cerys Matthews - Lost for Words
• Short Cuts: Deborah Moggach - The Comfort of Strangers
• Short Cuts: Ignatz and Krazy Kat - Divided we Stand
• Short Cuts: Neil Brand - Lost for Words
• Stevie Wonder plays Sir Duke
• Studs and Jimmy

About

Produced by Sarah Cuddon
Duration: 3'30"

First broadcast in 'Short Cuts: Lost for Words' on 31st January 2012, BBC Radio 4.

The musician and broadcaster Cerys Matthews reflects on how words can disappear in repetition.