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Radio 3,06 Nov 2022,30 mins

A Life Refracted

Between the Ears

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On the BBC's centenary, go on a journey through a human lifetime to discover the sound of life and the sound of the United Kingdom, as refracted through 100 years of BBC archive. Travel through the universal stages of life. From conception and birth, to play and learning. Puberty and rebellion, to love, marriage and beyond. Through sound design and collage from BBC programmes, some obscure and some perhaps distantly familiar, glimpse how much our lives have changed over the course of the last century, and how the voice of the BBC has changed with them. Produced by Jason Martin. Feat. 0x10, A Child’s Place, A Sense of Belonging, Allo, Allo, Anatomy of a Gang, Birth Right: The Dignity of Labour, Body Matters: As Time Goes By, Brass Tacks: Punk Rock, Civilisation: The Fallacy of Hope, E for Ecstasy, Everyman, Fields of Meaning, Forty Minutes, Grange Hill, Heath in Childhood, Horizon, How Your Body Works, Landmarks, Letting Go, Looking Back with Lord Reith, Man Alive, Marjorie Proops, Merry-Go-Round, Middle Age, Naked, Natural Break, Open Door, Order out of Chaos, Poldark, Public School, Robert Morley, Scene, School and Home, Seven Ages, Special Enquiry, Teenagers and Families, Trials of Life , The Child Experts, The Complete BBC Fitness Show, The Look, The Lowdown, The Mind Machine, Walrus, Watch, World of Sound and World of Wildlife.

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