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Radio 3,22 Feb 2026,30 mins

Words First meets Sound First

Between the Ears

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Emerging artists from two BBC talent development schemes - Sound First and Words First - collaborate to create new specially commissioned sound worlds of spoken word and sound design. New poems from the Words First spoken word artists are interwoven with new sound designs from our Sound First sound artists on the theme of 'time'. These talent development schemes are hosted by the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival. Sound First is supported by producers Ben Brick and Eloise Whitmore along with the poetry organisations Apples and Snakes and Young Identity. Poems and Sound Designs by: "Kisses For All Times" by Rhian Jade - sound design by Joey Pinder "Borough of Dandelions" by RK - sound design by Anna-Maria Woodrow "Time Flies" by Prav Jandu - sound design by Julie Béguin "Tell The Time" by Rayrites - sound design by Elliot Termote "Wasted Time" by Imogen Cordelia Grover - sound design by Carlo Villa "Clockwise" by IAMTARIQ - sound design by Katie Baxter "Time" by Jenny Pilkington - sound design by Georgia Preston "That Familiar Excuse" by Charlotte Cropper - sound design by Jesse Cutts Producer: Alice Smith

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