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Between the Ears Episodes

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    Right Between the Ears

    Haunted by noises heard whilst undergoing surgery, Ken Hollings searches for primal sound.

  2. The Sheep of Art

    Writer Chris Stewart knows a thing or two about sheep. Alexandra Harris knows art. Baa!

  3. In Praise of Shadows

    Nick Luscombe explores the sonic landscape of Junichiro Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'.

  4. Astronautica Fantastica

    Young children listen to classic film soundtracks and invent original stories.

  5. A Cow a Day

    A meditative journey within the sonic backdrop of the ancient Indian city of Varanasi.

  6. Drever, Ligo

    A poetic meditation on physicist Ronald Drever and the search for Gravitational Waves.

  7. The Plot for Karl Marx

    Alan Dein explores Karl Marx's journey from corpse to bronze monolith.

  8. The Shanty Boat

    Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern-day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.

  9. The Clash

    The ferocious Gaelic game of hurling meets the gentle craft of the hurley stick maker.

  10. Solitary

    Inside the disturbing world of solitary confinement, the prison within a prison.

  11. On Imaginary Media

    Radiophonic drama exploring the irrational beliefs we project onto new technologies.

  12. Brighstone 428

    A sound portrait in which artist Graeme Miller captures the poetry of the landline.

  13. Water Towers of New York

    A soundscape centring on the water tanks atop some of New York City's tall buildings.

  14. Second Side Up - a Life Captured in Radio

    Documentary about an aspiring disc jockey who turned his life into a cassette radio show.

  15. Danu - Dead Flows the Don

    David Bramwell confronts his fear of water, exploring the history of the river Don.

  16. Sounds Like She

    A musical exploration by transgender women of voice and gender.

  17. The Enemy Within

    An intimate exploration of living with a partner who returns home traumatised by war.

  18. Between the Essays

    A musical suite of innovative radio features from around the world.

  19. The Shepherd

    Innovative adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's haunting classic aviation Christmas tale.

  20. Tower of Babel

    Robert Wilson's impressionistic interpretation of the story of the Tower of Babel.

  21. Rain

    Rain, Alice Oswald's radio poem, commissioned in 2016 for Radio 3's 70th anniversary.

  22. Tomorrow Never Knew

    Revolver and the long shadow of The Beatles on the people of Liverpool.

  23. Requiem

    The instruments of a string ensemble are physically deconstructed as they play Beethoven.

  24. Between Ballard's Ears

    Enter JG Ballard's innerspace with two new binaural dramatisations of his short fiction.

  25. Jump Blue

    A recreation of the final descent of the great Russian freediver, Natalia Molchanova.

  26. The Mind's Eye

    Soundscapes exploring how personal experience influences our mind's eye.

  27. The Latecomers

    The second of Glenn Gould's three sound documentaries, to mark Canada Day 2016.

  28. A Beastly Midsummer Night

    Drama about a family of four exploring the magic of a Norfolk wood on midsummer night.

  29. The Impossible Book

    Drama about a writer suffering hallucinations on a train travelling through time and space

  30. Seelonce, Seelonce: A Call for Help

    An exploration of the history and the development of the language of the call for help.

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