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Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.

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Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Sound First and Words First

    Sun 3 Mar 2024

    Sound designers work with poets to create new soundworlds around spoken word performances

  • From Dusk Till Dawn

    Sun 2 Jul 2023

    Field recordings across East Anglia at night-time create an atmospheric radiophonic work.

  • Deep Listening in Japan

    Sun 26 Mar 2023

    A sonic journey into Japan's unique culture of music cafΓ©s and listening bars.

  • Imagining the Permafrost

    Sun 19 Feb 2023

    A journey into the permafrost

  • Dying Embers: The UK's last Coal Fired Power Stations

    Tue 6 Dec 2022

    Andrew Carter’s coal-to-kettle soundscape pays homage to these vast cathedrals of power

  • The BeachMiniatures

    Fri 18 Nov 2022

    Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature

  • Beyond the BoxMiniatures

    Thu 17 Nov 2022

    Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature

  • feeling bodyMiniatures

    Wed 16 Nov 2022

    Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature

  • The House in a HouseMiniatures

    Tue 15 Nov 2022

    Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature

  • KhangelaMiniatures

    Mon 14 Nov 2022

    Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature

  • The Virtual Symphony

    Sun 18 Jul 2021

    The joys and horrors of the internet, evoked by stories and a new electronic-vocal work

  • The Nightingales of Berlin

    Sun 6 Jun 2021

    A portrait of Berlin and its residents through the songs of the city’s nightingales.

  • Rhythms of Remembering

    Sun 23 May 2021

    A radiophonic exploration of The Gododdin, a lament for the fallen from the 7th century.

  • Telling the Bees

    Sun 21 Mar 2021

    Maria Margaronis escapes into the hive to explore the folk custom of telling the bees.

  • Sinking Feelings

    Sun 31 Jan 2021

    Enter the netherworld of the Great British bog on a journey into the lost and found.

  • Flight of the Monarch

    Sun 3 Jan 2021

    The migratory route of the monarch butterfly traced in words, music and sound.

  • Brief Encounters

    Sun 27 Dec 2020

    Stories of real-life chance encounters mark the anniversary of the film Brief Encounter.

  • The Rising Sea Symphony

    Sun 18 Oct 2020

    The effects of climate change evoked in words, sounds and a powerful new musical work

  • The Vet at the End of the World

    Sun 28 Jun 2020

    Seal attacks, snapping penguins, angry bulls... a vet's life on Tristan Da Cunha.

  • Diorama Drama

    Sun 26 Jan 2020

    Before there was cinema, there was the diorama. Now extinct, we bring it back to life!

  • The Virtually Melodic Cave

    Sun 16 Jun 2019

    A virtual reality radio documentary brings to life the ethereal magic of Fingal's Cave.

  • Container Ship Karaoke

    Sat 2 Mar 2019

    19,000 containers can be poor company on a voyage. Time for some karaoke!

  • The Letter

    Sat 23 Feb 2019

    How the music of Janacek and a letter from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ saved the Hollander family from Nazism.

  • The In-Between Land

    Sat 15 Dec 2018

    The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson

  • The NHS Symphony

    Sat 30 Jun 2018

    The rhythms of life in the NHS captured in immersive stereo and specially composed music.

  • Right Between the Ears

    Sat 2 Jun 2018

    Haunted by noises heard whilst undergoing surgery, Ken Hollings searches for primal sound.

  • The Sheep of Art

    Sat 12 May 2018

    Writer Chris Stewart knows a thing or two about sheep. Alexandra Harris knows art. Baa!

  • Drever, Ligo

    Sat 10 Feb 2018

    A poetic meditation on physicist Ronald Drever and the search for Gravitational Waves.

  • The Plot for Karl Marx

    Sat 18 Nov 2017

    Alan Dein explores Karl Marx's journey from corpse to bronze monolith.

  • The Shanty Boat

    Sat 11 Nov 2017

    Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern-day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.

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