Between the Ears Episodes Episode guide
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Inside Radio Alwan
An exiled Syrian radio station in Istanbul provides a lifeline for its listeners in Syria.
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First Find Your Tree
Feature about violin maker Andrea Ortona's work creating a copy of a Guarneri Kemp violin.
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The Three Second Rule
To see why the relaxed brain is happiest, artist Susan Aldworth slides inside a scanner.
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Return to Brigg Fair
Jim Moray on the meeting of composer Percy Grainger and farm bailiff Joseph Taylor.
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Yuletide in the Land of Ice and Fire
Poet and author Gerdur Kristny explores Iceland's Christmas myths.
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White Rabbits in Sussex
How an amateur production of Alice Through the Looking Glass became a psychedelic record.
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Alice at Crackpot Hall
The truth behind the story of a wild child found roaming at Crackpot Hall in Swaledale.
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The Dhammazedi Bell
Juxtaposing the legendary largest bell in the world and Myanmar's November 2015 elections.
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We Are Writing a Poem about Home
A radio poem from Kate Clanchy and the Very Quiet Foreign Girls.
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Bee Journal
Poem sequence by Sean Borodale centring on bees and the hive. With the voice of Bellatrix.
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Wake Up Baby
An exploration of the sometimes unsettling world of 'reassuring' technology.
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The Scrapbook: Memoirs of a Forensic Investigator
Matt Thompson profiles former forensic investigator Jack Sturiano.
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Mr Rainbow
Kafka-inspired drama about a young man seeking advice from a series of self-help experts.
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Into the Valley
Mark Burman takes his microphone for a ride into the legendary Monument Valley.
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School for Harmonicas
The best harmonica impression of a train you will ever hear - no question.
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Deliverance
A new radio poem by Lemn Sissay featuring five women's audio diaries of pregnancy.
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The Simpson Ferrograph
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
A documentary about one of Britain's most revered performance poets, John Cooper Clarke.
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Coma Songs
A meditation on the cultural representation of comas.
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More than a Desert
Poet Kate Tempest with a portrait of the Kent beach where film-maker Derek Jarman lived.
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Eschatology
A drama about the end of the world, as seen from a liner on a deserted sea.
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Skylarking
Feature on looking up at a blue sky, as Cathy FitzGerald meets a prisoner and a paraglider
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Music in the Great War: Wilfred Owen - The Soldiers' Poet
Soldiers, from corporal to general, choose, read and speak about a poem by Wilfred Owen.
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Sky Boy
A flight simulation in sound, featuring a portrait of trapeze artist Matt Costain.
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Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom
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?
How can Joe, a boy on the autistic spectrum, answer a question teeming with possibilities?
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Chinoiserie
Drama in which an exiled novelist meets an author writing about a shape-shifting princess.
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Play and Record
Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound recordist taping the Garden of Eden.
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Re:Union
Owen Sheers's new poem explores the relationship between rugby and modern Welsh identity.
