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Between the Ears

Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.

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The Plot for Karl Marx

The Plot for Karl Marx

Karl Marx's penultimate journey was as a corpse in a coffin being trundled up the very steep hill of Highgate to what sh... Read more

18 Nov 2017

27mins

Ranked #2

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Requiem

Requiem

The innovative composer and electronic music pioneer Matthew Herbert physically deconstructs the instruments of a string... Read more

17 Nov 2016

28mins

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The Mind's Eye

The Mind's Eye

You can never see through someone else's eyes, but can we, by stealth, tap into people's visual imaginations?The mind's ... Read more

23 Jun 2018

28mins

Ranked #4

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Diorama Drama

Diorama Drama

Before the magic of photography, the dazzle of cinema - there was the diorama.Frenchman Louis Daguerre is known primaril... Read more

26 Jan 2020

43mins

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Coma Songs

Coma Songs

A meditation on the cultural representation of comas through music, poetry and interviews with the families of people wh... Read more

11 Oct 2014

28mins

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Play and Record

Play and Record

Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound-recordist taping the Garden of Eden and recalls the impoverished soundscape of... Read more

18 Jan 2014

28mins

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Container Ship Karaoke

Container Ship Karaoke

Is karaoke the modern sea shanty? Containers are the nearly invisible carriers of 90% of the goods on earth – yet we kno... Read more

2 Mar 2019

29mins

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How Was Your Day Joe?

How Was Your Day Joe?

Joe is home from school."How was your day Joe?" asks his mum Emma (the producer of the programme).But Joe, and many like... Read more

7 Jun 2014

28mins

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School for Harmonicas

School for Harmonicas

Imagine a town of harmonica players; sounds a bit surreal?Now 'Between the Ears' gives listeners a chance to hear the ha... Read more

7 Mar 2015

27mins

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White Rabbits in Sussex

White Rabbits in Sussex

In a melting magical funnel of musical love (and the odd bit of reverb), musician David Bramwell investigates the unlike... Read more

14 Nov 2015

33mins

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Rain

Rain

Alice Oswald's radio poem Rain was commissioned by Radio 3 in 2016 as part of the 70th anniversary celebrations. Written... Read more

9 Dec 2016

26mins

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Alice at Crackpot Hall

Alice at Crackpot Hall

Newcastle writer David Almond investigates the story of a wild child who was said to roam the Yorkshire Dales near Crack... Read more

7 Nov 2015

27mins

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Into the Valley

Into the Valley

Monument Valley, which straddles the state lines of Arizona and Utah, is a place most of us have seen and never visited ... Read more

21 Mar 2015

28mins

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Danu - Dead Flows the Don

Danu - Dead Flows the Don

'The old pagan gods, when ousted by Christianity, took refuge in the rivers, where they still dwell' - Old English sayin... Read more

25 Mar 2017

29mins

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Drever, Ligo

Drever, Ligo

The detection of Gravitational Waves in 2015 was hailed as an astounding breakthrough in the world of physics and a triu... Read more

10 Feb 2018

28mins

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Wake Up Baby

Wake Up Baby

A baby sleeps.A man in another room watches her on a screen.Her loving father?No.This man does not know this baby. He's ... Read more

6 Jun 2015

28mins

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The Virtually Melodic Cave

The Virtually Melodic Cave

To view the VR experience in 360 on your smartphone, either click or paste the following link into your search browser:h... Read more

17 Jun 2019

29mins

Ranked #18

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The In-Between Land

The In-Between Land

The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson, which inspires her life and work and is ... Read more

17 Dec 2018

29mins

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The Letter

The Letter

Julia Hollander, her brother Tom and father Tony tell the story of a letter from the BBC, which saved their family, spaw... Read more

23 Feb 2019

27mins

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