Between the Ears
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Between the Ears - A Map of Paradise
An impressionistic feature on the notion of paradise - lost, sought and found, exploring artistic, literary and commercial perspectives.
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Between the Ears - A Moment of Mishearing
Indian novelist Amit Chaudhuri, a classically trained singer of Hindustani music, reflects on how music has a common root in both Eastern and Western traditions.
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Between the Ears - A Season in Hell
A reworking of Rimbaud's intense masterpiece of spiritual disillusionment, with a soundscape by composer Elizabeth Purnell. Contains language that might cause offence.
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Between the Ears - A Wireless Revelation
Radiophonic version of the text in the Book of Revelations in a communal reading - with music by Messiaen, Handel and Hildegard of Bingen.
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Between the Ears - Bal Bazaar
British-Indian poet Daljit Nagra's new poetic narrative inspired by his uncle's two shops in west London - where Muslim, Sikh and Hindu workers share a tiny working space.
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Between the Ears - Behind God's Back
A look back at the case of the poisoning of 50 men in Nagyrev in Hungary, with archives from the trial, press reports and the memories of a resident of the town.
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Between the Ears - Blackpool: The Greatest Show Town
Blackpool: The Greatest Show Town. Film-maker Ken Loach returns to Blackpool to recollect the summer shows of his boyhood.
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Between the Ears - Communicating Underwater
Communicating Underwater: Lisa Walker is a classically trained musician who has travelled to the Pacific to collaborate with musicians of the underwater world - humpback whales.
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Between the Ears - Crossing the Same River Twice
Dramatist Lou Stein draws upon the many sound recordings he has made during his life, exploring the tensions between selective memory and identity.
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Between the Ears - Dream Astronomy
Exploring letters to the Mount Wilson Observatory sent by people who had acquired information about the universe without the use of a telescope.
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Between the Ears - Dreaming of Osama
Dreaming of Osama: Usually he appears on videos, uploaded to radical Moslem sites, but since 9/11 Bin Laden has also been appearing in people's dreams all over the West.
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Between the Ears - Empty Ocean
Residents of Fair Isle, Britain's remotest inhabited island, talk about the loss of fishing and seabird colonies. With music by Damian Montagu performed by Fair Isle musicians.
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Between the Ears - Ghost Town
A portrait evoking vanishing towns in the American Southwest, blending music, ambient sound and anecdotes from residents past and present.
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Between the Ears - Hearts, Lungs and Minds
Documentary by sound artist John Wynne and photographer Tim Wainwright recording the experiences of Harefield Hospital's heart and lung transplant patients.
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Between the Ears - In Memoria
A sound-collage by Edward Wickham and Anthony Pitts, inspired by the tunnels of the National Mining Museum. Including recordings of early music group The Clerks.
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Between the Ears - Intensive Care
In his first radio feature, film-maker Terence Davies presents a memoir about his mother, his early development as an artist and a reflection on memory and the passing of time.
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Between the Ears - Jazz Ghosts in the Bronx
A tour of the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, the resting place for jazz luminaries including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, King Oliver and Max Roach.
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Between the Ears - Melting Point
A feature by Nina Perry exploring the environmental, cultural and musical significance of the icy landscapes of Greenland, Iceland and the Highlands of Scotland.
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Between the Ears - Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster
Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster: A discussion on psychological manipulation, using the mathematical concept of the Mobius Strip - a piece of paper with only one side.
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Between the Ears - Mole Jazz
Portrait of the late Ed Dipple, an obsessive collector who ran what has been described as the world's greatest second-hand jazz shop in a shabby corner of London's Kings Cross.
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Between the Ears - On the Trail of the Snail
Five radio producers from around the world contribute their personal responses in sound to Henri Matisse's The Snail, hanging in Tate Modern in London.
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Between the Ears - Other Mothers
A dark and funny radio poem in which writer Kate Clanchy listens to women across the country talking about the other mothers around them. With Adjoa Andoh and Zita Sattar.
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Between the Ears - Out Counting Sheep
Poet James Crowden experiences the wide range of sheep communication at lambing time in the dead of night, as well as the talk between shepherds and their sheep.
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Between the Ears - Out of the Mouths
A soundscape of the acquisition of language from a baby's viewpoint, focusing on the way in which cries become sounds, then babbles, words and then sentences.
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Between the Ears - Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me
Ergo Phizmiz's fantastical encounter with Swiss painter Paul Klee, set in an imaginary Klee-world of twittering machines, dream landscapes and singing colour polyphony.
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Between the Ears - Rock's DNA - Portrait of a Guitar Chord
An exploration of the Jimi Chord, a chord found in the opening of Hendrix's Purple Haze that unlocks the window into the soul of rock music.
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Between the Ears - Salvado
The story of an encounter in the 19th century between native inhabitants of Western Australia and Spanish monks who arrived in the outback to set up a Benedictine monastery.
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Between the Ears - Sounds of the 70s
A radio composition by Jonny Trunk created entirely from BBC Sound effects recorded between 1970 and 1979.
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Between the Ears - Staring at the Wall
Alan Dein captures the sounds and thoughts of life outside the walls of Pentonville prison in North London, talking to a former inmate who now lives nearby.
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Between the Ears - Summer Sesshin
Documentary following people who balance their stressful routines with the silence of the Buddhist retreat. Can those who take part carry the silence back into their daily lives?
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Between the Ears - Symphonies of Wind Turbines
A sonic meditation on wind turbines, with turbine sounds recorded on location in Norfolk blended with contributions from poet Kevin Crossley-Holland.
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Between the Ears - Tennyson in Skegness
An exploration of Tennyson's relationship with the Lincolnshire town of Skegness, where he wrote some of his most familiar verse.
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Between the Ears - The Chekhov Challenge - The Sound of a Breaking String
Exploring the many attempts to produce the enigmatic stage direction in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard - 'the sound of a breaking string' - ranging from musical saws to gunshots.
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Between the Ears - The Cost of Coal
For as long as live broadcasting has been taking place, mining disasters have provided some of the most dramatic stories. We explore the echoes within us of these dramatic tales.
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Between the Ears - The Glass Piano
Deborah Levy considers the true story of Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria, who was seen walking sideways through her family's palace, believing she swallowed a glass piano.
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Between the Ears - The Great Bell
Using sounds, poems and stories, Stephen Gill depicts bonshou, huge bronze bells which are present in every Buddhist temple in Japan. They are essential to Japanese identity.
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Between the Ears - The Haunted Moustache
Musician David Bramwell explores Victorian psychic phenomena, modern witchcraft and mind-altering states, in search of the story behind an inherited moustache.
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Between the Ears - The Man with the Blue Guitar
Kerry Shale reads the Wallace Stevens poem The Man with the Blue Guitar, inspired by Pablo Picasso's painting The Old Guitarist. With new blues guitar music by Martin Simpson.
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Between the Ears - The Mosque at the End of the World
Writer Tahir Shah explores the square Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech, where storytellers, dancers, boxers, musicians and snake charmers gather and enchant the crowds.
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Between the Ears - The Nightfishing
The Nightfishing: Jonathan Davidson's adaptation of WS Graham's poem about a fishing trip, which touches on the difficulties of writing and of turning experience into words.
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Between the Ears - The Refuge Box
A radio poem by Katrina Porteous on the subject of the Refuge Box, a wooden cabin on stilts half way between Holy Island and the mainland of Northumbria.
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Between the Ears - The Sleepover
Shut away for 20 hours in a humble house and barn beside a creek, Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world.
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Between the Ears - The Wall of a Million Bricks
The Wall of a Million Bricks: Belfast-born DJ and film composer David Holmes weaves a soundtrack through stories of people on both sides of the religious divide in Northern Ireland.
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Between the Ears - The Wash
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion explores the great wilderness on the east coast of the country, known as the Wash.
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Between the Ears - UK Crossfade
Charting a journey in sound, moving across the UK in a series of long, very slow and sometimes imperceptible fades from one location to another.
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Between the Ears - Vapourtrain
Harry Willis Fleming explores how in the Victorian era the advent of steam train travel influenced travellers and chroniclers of the time.
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Between the Ears - Weather Reports You
Weather Reports You: Artist Roni Horn proposes that 'when you talk about the weather, you talk about yourself', and brings together individual stories and reflections in a portrait.
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Between the Ears - When Silence Sings
A sonic reflection on the city of Venice, which is portrayed through the ears of some of its residents, including Tonie, a deaf Norwegian psychologist.
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Between the Ears - Woven in Time
A story about black female identity told through the words of poets Zena Edwards, Khadijah Ibrahim and Jean Binta Breeze, and the lives of women in an Afro-Caribbean hair salon.
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