Between the Ears Podcast
Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.
Episodes to download
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Sound First and Words First
Sun 3 Mar 2024
Sound designers work with poets to create new soundworlds around spoken word performances
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From Dusk Till Dawn
Sun 2 Jul 2023
Field recordings across East Anglia at night-time create an atmospheric radiophonic work.
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Deep Listening in Japan
Sun 26 Mar 2023
A sonic journey into Japan's unique culture of music cafés and listening bars.
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Dying Embers: The UK's last Coal Fired Power Stations
Tue 6 Dec 2022
Andrew Carter’s coal-to-kettle soundscape pays homage to these vast cathedrals of power
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The Beach—Miniatures
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
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Beyond the Box—Miniatures
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
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feeling body—Miniatures
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
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The House in a House—Miniatures
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
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Khangela—Miniatures
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
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The Virtual Symphony
Sun 18 Jul 2021
The joys and horrors of the internet, evoked by stories and a new electronic-vocal work
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The Nightingales of Berlin
Sun 6 Jun 2021
A portrait of Berlin and its residents through the songs of the city’s nightingales.
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Rhythms of Remembering
Sun 23 May 2021
A radiophonic exploration of The Gododdin, a lament for the fallen from the 7th century.
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Telling the Bees
Sun 21 Mar 2021
Maria Margaronis escapes into the hive to explore the folk custom of telling the bees.
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Sinking Feelings
Sun 31 Jan 2021
Enter the netherworld of the Great British bog on a journey into the lost and found.
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Flight of the Monarch
Sun 3 Jan 2021
The migratory route of the monarch butterfly traced in words, music and sound.
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Brief Encounters
Sun 27 Dec 2020
Stories of real-life chance encounters mark the anniversary of the film Brief Encounter.
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The Rising Sea Symphony
Sun 18 Oct 2020
The effects of climate change evoked in words, sounds and a powerful new musical work
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The Vet at the End of the World
Sun 28 Jun 2020
Seal attacks, snapping penguins, angry bulls... a vet's life on Tristan Da Cunha.
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Diorama Drama
Sun 26 Jan 2020
Before there was cinema, there was the diorama. Now extinct, we bring it back to life!
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The Virtually Melodic Cave
Sun 16 Jun 2019
A virtual reality radio documentary brings to life the ethereal magic of Fingal's Cave.
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Container Ship Karaoke
Sat 2 Mar 2019
19,000 containers can be poor company on a voyage. Time for some karaoke!
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The Letter
Sat 23 Feb 2019
How the music of Janacek and a letter from the BBC saved the Hollander family from Nazism.
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The In-Between Land
Sat 15 Dec 2018
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson
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The NHS Symphony
Sat 30 Jun 2018
The rhythms of life in the NHS captured in immersive stereo and specially composed music.
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Right Between the Ears
Sat 2 Jun 2018
Haunted by noises heard whilst undergoing surgery, Ken Hollings searches for primal sound.
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The Sheep of Art
Sat 12 May 2018
Writer Chris Stewart knows a thing or two about sheep. Alexandra Harris knows art. Baa!
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Drever, Ligo
Sat 10 Feb 2018
A poetic meditation on physicist Ronald Drever and the search for Gravitational Waves.
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The Plot for Karl Marx
Sat 18 Nov 2017
Alan Dein explores Karl Marx's journey from corpse to bronze monolith.
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The Shanty Boat
Sat 11 Nov 2017
Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern-day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.
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