ALT The radio show Short Cuts is always great. It's arty, it's experimental, it's interested in exploring sound and all her fractal crevices. And, true to its name, it's short. Just 30 minutes. But the most recent episode, “Radio” — “a radio show about the radio on the radio” — really slayed me, stopped me, made me think about this medium, its beauty and limits. With a story about treetops. And one by one of my favorite radio makers out there, Veronica Simmonds, who recently discovered her great-grand-aunt was a radio broadcaster during the Holocaust. Veronica listens to some of her aunt’s broadcasts and, as someone who listens deeply as a living, rethinks what deep listening does. It includes such lines as “Deep listening… will not comfort you.” And “what happens after knowing?”