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Between the Ears

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-10-20 03:30:58

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagining the Permafrost

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The permafrost is a thriving ecosystem, teaming with life, mythology, histories and futures, hidden ...

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 c...

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, “...

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 fro...

feeling body

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

feeling body is part of a series of pieces reflecting on the physical and psychological experiences ...

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 – th...

Khangela

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Researchers Bongani Kona and Catherine Boulle have spent the last year piecing together the story of...

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 v...

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 olde...

The Nightingales of Berlin

14 Jun 2021

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In early summer, as darkness descends, Berlin resonates with the sound of nightingales. You can hear...

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 t...

Sinking Feelings

31 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bogs have always captured the human imagination, inspiring both fear and fiction. Between the Ears w...

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 G...

Brief Encounters

27 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stories of real life chance encounters, inspired by the 75th anniversary of the much-loved film Brie...

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 ...

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...

Diorama Drama

26 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Before the magic of photography, the dazzle of cinema - there was the diorama.Frenchman Louis Daguer...

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 y...

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 o...

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 save...

The In-Between Land

17 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson, which inspires her l...

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 ...

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 imag...

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 u...

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, w...

Drever, Ligo

10 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The detection of Gravitational Waves in 2015 was hailed as an astounding breakthrough in the world o...

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 ...

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...

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 sigh...

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'...

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 c...

Requiem

17 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The innovative composer and electronic music pioneer Matthew Herbert physically deconstructs the ins...

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 ho...

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 inv...

Alice at Crackpot Hall

07 Nov 2015

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Newcastle writer David Almond investigates the story of a wild child who was said to roam the Yorksh...

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 n...

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 see...

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 c...

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...

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 po...

Coma Songs

11 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A meditation on the cultural representation of comas through music, poetry and interviews with the f...

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...

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 r...

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).Bu...

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 impove...

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 sou...

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 exp...

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 ...

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 o...

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 exp...

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 'Cons...

She Said/He Said

10 Oct 2013

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Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay for a week to play a game of audio 'Cons...

The Man

08 Oct 2013

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Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay for a week to play a game of audio 'Cons...

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 'Cons...

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 Eli...

The Haunted Moustache

27 Mar 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Musician David Bramwell delves into the world of Victorian psychic phenomena, modern witchcraft and ...