Between the Ears
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Sound First and Words First
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emerging talent from two BBC talent development schemes - Sound First and Words First - collaborate to create new soundworlds of spoken word and sound...
From Dusk Till Dawn
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Rawes (1965-2021) was a sound recordist best known for creating the London Sound Survey, a huge collection of his recordings of the sounds of Lond...
Deep Listening in Japan
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sonic journey into Japan's unique culture of music cafés and listening bars. Places where people come together to indulge in deep listening in audi...
Imagining the Permafrost
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The permafrost is a thriving ecosystem, teaming with life, mythology, histories and futures, hidden just below the surface. Yet unlike tropical rainfo...
Dying Embers: The UK's last Coal Fired Power Stations
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The UKs last remaining coal fired power stations are about to close, bringing to an end our use of coal to produce our electricity. West Burton is one...
The Beach
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this piece, the fool stands at the edge of the cliff, looking up at the sky.She asks herself, “How did I get here?” And also, “Where am I mea...
Beyond the Box
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Filling out a form, Mido is confronted with a series of boxes to tick. Two familiar boxes emerge from the crowd and stand side by side. One says ‘Ma...
feeling body
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
feeling body is part of a series of pieces reflecting on the physical and psychological experiences during and after an extended period of illness (lo...
The House in a House
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marta Medvešek explores a local legend she encounters on her summer vacation in Bol, Croatia – the story of the House in a House. A magical place w...
Khangela
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers Bongani Kona and Catherine Boulle have spent the last year piecing together the story of one woman’s decades-long search to find the rem...
The Virtual Symphony
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The joys and horrors of the internet, evoked by stories, sounds and an exciting new electronic and vocal work composed by Kieran Brunt. Opens with an ...
Rhythms of Remembering
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A radiophonic exploration of The Gododdin, a lament for the fallen, bringing to life one of the oldest, yet enduringly relevant, treasures of European...
The Nightingales of Berlin
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In early summer, as darkness descends, Berlin resonates with the sound of nightingales. You can hear their haunting, ever-changing songs in parks, woo...
Telling the Bees
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Margaronis surrenders to the life of the hive to explore the ancient folk customs around the telling the bees.The lives of bees and humans have ...
Sinking Feelings
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bogs have always captured the human imagination, inspiring both fear and fiction. Between the Ears wades into this treacherous netherworld in a search...
Flight of the Monarch
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Composer and sound artist Rob Mackay traces the migratory route of the monarch butterfly, from the Great Lakes in Canada to the forests of Mexico, via...
Brief Encounters
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stories of real life chance encounters, inspired by the 75th anniversary of the much-loved film Brief Encounter. Introduced by Matthew Sweet. Using d...
The Rising Sea Symphony
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The dramatic effects of climate change evoked in words, sounds and a powerful new musical work.Over four movements of rich and evocative music, the li...
The Vet at the End of the World
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Angry bulls, furious penguins, enraged seals! In the shadow of the volcano 'Between the Ears' gets a microphone close up to enjoy the action, as veter...
Diorama Drama
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before the magic of photography, the dazzle of cinema - there was the diorama.Frenchman Louis Daguerre is known primarily as one of the inventors of p...
The Virtually Melodic Cave
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To view the VR experience in 360 on your smartphone, either click or paste the following link into your search browser:https://youtu.be/RHt6QIJI9cU al...
Container Ship Karaoke
02 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is karaoke the modern sea shanty? Containers are the nearly invisible carriers of 90% of the goods on earth – yet we know so little about them, or t...
The Letter
23 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Hollander, her brother Tom and father Tony tell the story of a letter from the BBC, which saved their family, spawning a rich legacy of Czech mu...
The In-Between Land
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson, which inspires her life and work and is the fertile backdrop to her re...
The NHS Symphony
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The patterns and flows of life in the NHS captured in immersive stereo, with specially commissioned music sung by NHS staff and The Bach Choir.In the ...
The Mind's Eye
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You can never see through someone else's eyes, but can we, by stealth, tap into people's visual imaginations?The mind's eye is something most of us ta...
Right Between the Ears
02 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Ken Hollings underwent surgery at Moorfields Hospital for a detached retina he experienced an unexpected symphony inside his head, right between ...
The Sheep of Art
12 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What's the difference between the sheep found in art and real sheep? In a sheep bell-rich melange, we go in hunt of the real thing, with sheep farmer,...
Drever, Ligo
10 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The detection of Gravitational Waves in 2015 was hailed as an astounding breakthrough in the world of physics and a triumph for the. LIGO project, the...
The Three Second Rule
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The three second rule - once more like folklore or hearsay - has been discovered to be the happiest condition for the human brain.In this imaginative ...
The Plot for Karl Marx
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Marx's penultimate journey was as a corpse in a coffin being trundled up the very steep hill of Highgate to what should have been his last restin...
The Shanty Boat
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
'Hey man, you're living my dream...!' The cry rings out once, twice a day from people who catch sight of the shanty boat as it wends its way down the ...
Danu - Dead Flows the Don
25 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
'The old pagan gods, when ousted by Christianity, took refuge in the rivers, where they still dwell' - Old English sayingDavid Bramwell has a fascinat...
Rain
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Oswald's radio poem Rain was commissioned by Radio 3 in 2016 as part of the 70th anniversary celebrations. Written and performed by the poet, Ra...
Requiem
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The innovative composer and electronic music pioneer Matthew Herbert physically deconstructs the instruments of a string ensemble while they play one ...
Seelonce, Seelonce: A Call for Help
30 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Last summer the musician Tim van Eyken had to make a distress call while afloat. He was struck by how, at the moment of greatest tension and stress, t...
White Rabbits in Sussex
14 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In a melting magical funnel of musical love (and the odd bit of reverb), musician David Bramwell investigates the unlikely story of how, in 1969, an a...
Alice at Crackpot Hall
07 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Newcastle writer David Almond investigates the story of a wild child who was said to roam the Yorkshire Dales near Crackpot Hall in the 1930s - and ma...
Wake Up Baby
06 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 in another country, thousa...
Into the Valley
21 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Monument Valley, which straddles the state lines of Arizona and Utah, is a place most of us have seen and never visited or listened to. The 'true West...
School for Harmonicas
07 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a town of harmonica players; sounds a bit surreal?Now 'Between the Ears' gives listeners a chance to hear the harmonica as a truly virtuoso in...
The Simpson Ferrograph
21 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Early in 2013 record producer Dan Carey bought a vintage tape machine at a charity shop in Streatham, South London. The Ferrograph recorder came with ...
The 21-Gun Salute Suit
09 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A funny and moving autobiographical documentary about one of Britain's most brilliant performance poets, John Cooper Clarke; a revealing look at John'...
Coma Songs
11 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A meditation on the cultural representation of comas through music, poetry and interviews with the families of people who have a suffered brain injury...
Music in the Great War: Wilfred Owen - The Soldiers' Poet
28 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Wilfred Owen wrote that he was a 'poets' poet'. He also wrote, in the preface to 'War Poems', 'Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is...
Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom
16 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Lenny Henry stars in a musical fantasy written by Jakko M Jakszyk and Lenny Henry, woven round the real-life 1964 dinner encounter between the greates...
How Was Your Day Joe?
07 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Joe is home from school."How was your day Joe?" asks his mum Emma (the producer of the programme).But Joe, and many like him on the autistic spectrum,...
Play and Record
18 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound-recordist taping the Garden of Eden and recalls the impoverished soundscape of his childhood. Growing on the...
Re:Union
13 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of a nation coming into being: in the track and weave of an oval ball. Owen Sheers' new sound poem explores the complex, often difficult rela...
Final Movement: Art Values
26 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Shadowplay offers a four-part 'symphony of voices' to celebrate 20 years of Between the Ears. It explores the shadows that may fall between the appear...
Third Movement: Romantic Scherzo
19 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Shadowplay offers a four-part 'symphony of voices' to celebrate 20 years of Between the Ears, Radio 3's home for adventurous and innovative radio. It ...
Sonic Art Boom - The Art of Noise
18 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How can art be invisible? When it's made of sound.Dan Jones commemorates the centenary of 'The Art of Noise Manifesto', by Luigi Russolo, with an expl...
Slow Movement: Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel
12 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Shadowplay offers a four-part 'symphony of voices' to celebrate 20 years of Between the Ears. It explores the shadows that may fall between the appear...
And the Consequence Was...
11 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay for a week to play a game of audio 'Consequences'.As part of BBC Radio 3's celebration of ...
She Said/He Said
10 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay for a week to play a game of audio 'Consequences'.As part of BBC Radio 3's celebration of ...
The Man
08 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay for a week to play a game of audio 'Consequences'.As part of BBC Radio 3's celebration of ...
The Woman
07 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay for a week to play a game of audio 'Consequences'.As part of BBC Radio 3's celebration of ...
Theme and Variations: What We Value
05 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow.The words of TS Eliot provide a cue for this playful, challenging and...
The Haunted Moustache
27 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Musician David Bramwell delves into the world of Victorian psychic phenomena, modern witchcraft and mind altering states in the search for the story b...