Between the Ears - Lure

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Between the Ears: Lure

Alison Lock's dreamlike journey describes her dramatic, near-fatal accident.

One morning, on her regular walk on the Yorkshire moors, she slipped and fell into a millpond, breaking her back in seven places along the way.

Alison has no memory of the moment of falling, but every second of clawing her way back to life, from one handhold to the next, is vividly imprinted and distilled into this poetic sequence.

Music by Will Gregory (Goldfrapp, The Moog Ensemble)

Violin by Alex Balanescu (Michael Nyman Band, Balanescu Quartet)

Vocals by Hazel Mills (Goldfrapp, Florence and the Machine, The Paper Cinema).

Sound design by Iain Hunter.

Producer: Kate McAll

A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2021.