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Between the Ears Episodes

  1. Child of Ardoyne

    A meditation on 'the Troubles' from the viewpoint of north-Belfast children.

  2. The Chekhov Challenge: The Sound of a Breaking String

    The challenge to find 'the sound of a breaking string' demanded in The Cherry Orchard.

  3. The Cost of Coal

    Evoking life working in coal mines and the accompanying fictional and real-life dramas.

  4. Out Counting Sheep

    Poet James Crowden experiences the wide range of sheep communication at lambing time.

  5. Sounds of the 70s

    A radio composition by Jonny Trunk created from 大象传媒 Sound Effects recorded in the 1970s.

  6. On the Trail of the Snail

    Five radio producers give their responses in sound to Henri Matisse's collage The Snail.

  7. The Nightfishing

    Jonathan Davidson's adaptation of WS Graham's poem about a fishing trip.

  8. A Moment of Mishearing

    Amit Chaudhuri on how music has a common root in both Eastern and Western traditions.

  9. The Man with the Blue Guitar

    The Man with the Blue Guitar.

  10. Summer Sesshin

    Documentary about people balancing stressful lives with the silence of a Buddhist retreat.

  11. Other Mothers

    Writer Kate Clanchy hears women talking about the other mothers around them.

  12. The Glass Piano

    Deborah Levy considers the life of the princess who thought she'd swallowed a glass piano.

  13. Intensive Care

    Film-maker Terence Davies' memoir about his mother and his development as an artist.

  14. The Mosque at the End of the World

    Writer Tahir Shah explores the square Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech.

  15. The Haunted Moustache

    David Bramwell probes Victorian psychic phenomena as revealed by a false moustache.

  16. The Chekhov Challenge - The Sound of a Breaking String

    Exploring attempts to produce a famous stage direction in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

  17. The Sleepover

    Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world.

  18. The Great Bell

    Stephen Gill depicts bonshou, bronze bells in every Buddhist temple in Japan.

  19. Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me

    Ergo Phizmiz's fantastical encounter with Swiss painter Paul Klee.

  20. Bal Bazaar

    Daljit Nagra's new poetic narrative inspired by his uncle's shops in west London.

  21. Melting Point

    Feature on the environmental, cultural and musical significance of several icy landscapes.

  22. A Season in Hell

    Setting of Rimbaud's hallucinatory prose poem. Contains language that might cause offence.

  23. Salvado

    Spanish monks encounter native inhabitants of Western Australia in the 19th century.

  24. Tennyson in Skegness

    Exploring Tennyson's connection with Skegness, where he wrote some of his best-known verse

  25. A Wireless Revelation

    Radiophonic version of the text in the Book of Revelations.

  26. Ghost Town

    A portrait evoking vanishing towns in the American Southwest.

  27. Vapourtrain

    Harry Willis Fleming explores the advent of steam train travel.

  28. Empty Ocean

    Islanders on Fair Isle lament the loss of fishing. And music performed by local musicians.

  29. Weather Reports You

    Artist Roni Horn proposes that 'when you talk about the weather, you talk about yourself'.

  30. Woven in Time

    A story about black female identity told through the words of poets.

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