Between the Ears at 20
A selection of vintage editions across the 20-year history of Between the Ears.
Assembled with sound files from over 23 countries, inspired by the words 'Happy Hour'.
Made for the Prix Europa in Berlin 2013. Produced by Alan Hall and Simon Elmes.
Between The Ears: Monument (London: 1935-1993) [5 October 1993]. Prix Italia & Sony award winner
The very first Between the Ears on BBC Radio 3. Produced by Alan Hall.
Between The Ears: Knoxville - Summer of 1995 [3 October 1995]. Prix Italia award winner
James Agee's poem, Samuel Barber's music, and the sounds of modern city life in Knoxville.
Beethoven's Fifth [21 Oct 1996]. Sony Gold and a Prix Italia ‘special commendation’
Mark Russell introduces a specially mixed performance of Beetoven's 5th Symphony.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird [1 July 2000]
An aural kaleidoscope, in 13 beak-sized chunks, evoking the blackbird ...
The Singing Postcard [18 August 2002]
Oral historian Alan Dein explores a collection of Singing Postcards - holiday mementoes.
Project Jericho [6 November 2004]
Sony Award-winner: Gregory Whitehead decodes the sonic meaning of Jericho.
Between The Ears: Staring At The Wall [7 May 2008]. Sony Gold award winner
Everyday life just outside the walls of Pentonville prison in North London.
Between The Ears: The Haunted Moustache [10 April 2010]. Sony award winner
Musician David Bramwell delves into the world of Victorian psychic phenomena.
Between The Ears: The Glass Piano [24 April 2010]
The story of Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria, who said she'd swallowed a glass piano.
Between The Ears: Out Counting Sheep [15 January 2011]. Prix Italia award nominee
Poet James Crowden experiences the wide range of sheep communication at lambing time.
Between The Ears: On The Rubble Of My Home I Played My Flute [11 June 2011]
Flautist Guo Yue escapes the Cultural Revolution, studies in London, and returns to China.
Between The Ears: Disequilibrium [1 December 2012]
Nick Ryan, award-winning sound designer, awakes dizzy, nauseous, destabilized ...
Between The Ears: When You're Gone, You're Gone [28 January 2012]
English composer Jocelyn Pook explores what happens when we die.
