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Between the Ears Episodes

  1. A Season in Hell

    Setting of Rimbaud's hallucinatory prose poem. Contains language that might cause offence.

  2. Salvado

    Spanish monks encounter native inhabitants of Western Australia in the 19th century.

  3. Tennyson in Skegness

    Exploring Tennyson's connection with Skegness, where he wrote some of his best-known verse

  4. A Wireless Revelation

    Radiophonic version of the text in the Book of Revelations.

  5. Ghost Town

    A portrait evoking vanishing towns in the American Southwest.

  6. Vapourtrain

    Harry Willis Fleming explores the advent of steam train travel.

  7. Empty Ocean

    Islanders on Fair Isle lament the loss of fishing. And music performed by local musicians.

  8. Weather Reports You

    Artist Roni Horn proposes that 'when you talk about the weather, you talk about yourself'.

  9. Woven in Time

    A story about black female identity told through the words of poets.

  10. In Memoria

    A sound-collage created by Anthony Pitts, inspired by the National Mining Museum tunnels.

  11. Mole Jazz

    Portrait of the late Ed Dipple, who ran a famous second-hand jazz shop in Kings Cross.

  12. Crossing the Same River Twice

    Dramatist Lou Stein explores the tensions between selective memory and identity.

  13. When Silence Sings

    A sonic reflection on Venice, portrayed through the ears of its residents.

  14. Hearts, Lungs and Minds

    Sound piece about the experiences of Harefield Hospital's heart/lung transplant patients.

  15. UK Crossfade

    A journey in sound, moving across the UK in a series of fades from one location to another

  16. Staring at the Wall

    Alan Dein captures the sounds and thoughts of life outside the walls of Pentonville prison

  17. The Wash

    Poet Laureate Andrew Motion explores the great wilderness on the east coast of the country

  18. A Map of Paradise

    An impressionistic feature on the notion of paradise - lost, sought and found.

  19. Out of the Mouths

    A soundscape of the acquisition of language from a baby's viewpoint.

  20. Symphonies of Wind Turbines

    A sonic meditation on wind turbines and their place in today's environment.

  21. Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster

    A discussion on psychological manipulation, using the concept of the Mobius Strip.

  22. The Wall of a Million Bricks

    David Holmes puts music to the stories of people across the divide in Northern Ireland.

  23. Behind God's Back

    A look back at the case of the poisoning of 50 men in Nagyrev in Hungary.

  24. Dream Astronomy

    Letters sent by people who had gleaned information about the universe without a telescope.

  25. Blackpool: The Greatest Show Town

    Film-maker Ken Loach returns to Blackpool to recollect the summer shows of his boyhood.

  26. Jazz Ghosts in the Bronx

    The Woodlawn Cemetery in New York's Bronx holds the graves of numerous jazz luminaries.

  27. The Refuge Box

    A radio poem by Katrina Porteous about the Refuge Box, off the coast of Northumbria.

  28. Dreaming of Osama

    Since 9/11 Bin Laden has been appearing in people's dreams all over the West.

  29. Rock's DNA - Portrait of a Guitar Chord

    An exploration of the Jimi Chord, a chord found in the opening of Hendrix's Purple Haze.

  30. Communicating Underwater

    Lisa Walker takes her music out onto Pacific waters to collaborate with humpback whales.

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