Between the Ears Podcast
Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.
Episodes to download
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The Shanty Boat
Sat 11 Nov 2017
Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern-day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.
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Danu - Dead Flows the Don
Sat 25 Mar 2017
David Bramwell confronts his fear of water, exploring the history of the river Don.
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Rain
Sat 19 Nov 2016
Rain, Alice Oswald's radio poem, commissioned in 2016 for Radio 3's 70th anniversary.
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Requiem
Sat 5 Nov 2016
The instruments of a string ensemble are physically deconstructed as they play Beethoven.
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The Mind's Eye
Sat 8 Oct 2016
Soundscapes exploring how personal experience influences our mind's eye.
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Seelonce, Seelonce: A Call for Help
Sat 30 Apr 2016
An exploration of the history and the development of the language of the call for help.
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The Three Second Rule
Sat 12 Mar 2016
To see why the relaxed brain is happiest, artist Susan Aldworth slides inside a scanner.
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White Rabbits in Sussex
Sat 14 Nov 2015
How an amateur production of Alice Through the Looking Glass became a psychedelic record.
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Alice at Crackpot Hall
Sat 7 Nov 2015
The truth behind the story of a wild child found roaming at Crackpot Hall in Swaledale.
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Wake Up Baby
Sat 6 Jun 2015
An exploration of the sometimes unsettling world of 'reassuring' technology.
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Into the Valley
Sat 21 Mar 2015
Mark Burman takes his microphone for a ride into the legendary Monument Valley.
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School for Harmonicas
Sat 7 Mar 2015
The best harmonica impression of a train you will ever hear - no question.
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The Simpson Ferrograph
Sat 21 Feb 2015
The story behind a set of audio recordings from the 1950s discovered on reel-to-reel tapes
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The 21-Gun Salute Suit
Sat 7 Feb 2015
A documentary about one of Britain's most revered performance poets, John Cooper Clarke.
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Music in the Great War: Wilfred Owen - The Soldiers' Poet
Sat 28 Jun 2014
Soldiers, from corporal to general, choose, read and speak about a poem by Wilfred Owen.
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Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom
Sat 14 Jun 2014
Lenny Henry stars in a musical fantasy about TS Eliot's 1964 dinner with Groucho Marx.
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How Was Your Day Joe?
Sat 7 Jun 2014
How can Joe, a boy on the autistic spectrum, answer a question teeming with possibilities?
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Play and Record
Sat 18 Jan 2014
Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound recordist taping the Garden of Eden.
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Re:Union
Sat 11 Jan 2014
Owen Sheers's new poem explores the relationship between rugby and modern Welsh identity.
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Final Movement: Art Values—Between the Ears at 20, Shadowplay
Sat 26 Oct 2013
Life model Sue Tilley features in an exploration of the value of art.
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Third Movement: Romantic Scherzo—Between the Ears at 20, Shadowplay
Sat 19 Oct 2013
An exploration of romantic expectations, illusions and delusions.
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Slow Movement: Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel—Between the Ears at 20, Shadowplay
Sat 12 Oct 2013
A man struggles to meditate as he realises he is sitting next to actor Harvey Keitel.
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And the Consequence Was...—Between the Ears at 20, Consequences
Fri 11 Oct 2013
Steve Urquhart presents three interwoven stories about marks left on the body.
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She Said/He Said—Between the Ears at 20, Consequences
Thu 10 Oct 2013
Bob Carlson's dialogue between a couple about a third person who stumbled into their lives
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The Man—Between the Ears at 20, Consequences
Tue 8 Oct 2013
Tim Hinman narrates a monologue about a man who wants to shut out noise pollution.
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The Woman—Between the Ears at 20, Consequences
Mon 7 Oct 2013
Natalie Kestecher describes a documentary fantasy about her unrealistic romantic demands.
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Sonic Art Boom - The Art of Noise—Between the Ears at 20
Sun 6 Oct 2013
Composer Dan Jones celebrates sound art.
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Theme and Variations: What We Value—Between the Ears at 20, Shadowplay
Sat 5 Oct 2013
Considering what we value: wealth, health, liberty and happiness.
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The Haunted Moustache
Sat 27 Mar 2010
David Bramwell probes Victorian psychic phenomena as revealed by a false moustache.
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