Mixing music, dialogue from soundtracks, press conferences, sound effects and other sources, shortcuts has presented a wide variety of themes over the past thirty years, including programs on growing up, growing old, going crazy, being afraid, alone, in love; shows on music, space, race and politics from Watergate to Whitewater, plus retrospectives featuring the major events of each passing year. Recorded and mixed digitally, shortcuts features no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtaposition of the various elements.

Daily News: "a stunning stereo mix of music, news, movie dialogue, commercials and other sound sources...shortcuts is a theme-oriented program with no narration, a splice-of-life montage.... After the Three Mile Island catastrophe, Bochan produced "A Shortcut to Harrisburg" in which a Nuclear Regulatory Commission official repeatly assured the public that "everything was under control" while Elvis Costello sang "Accidents Will happen" in the background."

John Kalish, New York Daily News,December 1992

"A Shortcut Back to Dallas (1963)"

 NewYorkMagazine/Best Bets: "Shortcuts"-Peter Bochan's devastating splice of life, an edited version of the Nixon Watergate speech, in which you hear him say what you wish you had."

October 1973

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"A Shortcut Through 2007"

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"A Shortcut Through 2006"

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"A Shortcut Through The 70's"

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"1968"

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"Shortcuts-25th Anniversary Special"- 1972-1997:
Highlights from twenty-five years of Shortcuts, available now on  3 compact discs and cassettes.

"A Finger on the Pulse of the Nation!"

25th Anniversary

2001

2000

20thCentury

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

1992

1991

1990

1980's

1970's

1968

Catalogue

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