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Between the Ears Episodes

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    Seelonce, Seelonce: A Call for Help

    An exploration of the history and the development of the language of the call for help.

  2. Inside Radio Alwan

    An exiled Syrian radio station in Istanbul provides a lifeline for its listeners in Syria.

  3. First Find Your Tree

    Feature about violin maker Andrea Ortona's work creating a copy of a Guarneri Kemp violin.

  4. The Three Second Rule

    To see why the relaxed brain is happiest, artist Susan Aldworth slides inside a scanner.

  5. Return to Brigg Fair

    Jim Moray on the meeting of composer Percy Grainger and farm bailiff Joseph Taylor.

  6. Yuletide in the Land of Ice and Fire

    Poet and author Gerdur Kristny explores Iceland's Christmas myths.

  7. White Rabbits in Sussex

    How an amateur production of Alice Through the Looking Glass became a psychedelic record.

  8. Alice at Crackpot Hall

    The truth behind the story of a wild child found roaming at Crackpot Hall in Swaledale.

  9. The Dhammazedi Bell

    Juxtaposing the legendary largest bell in the world and Myanmar's November 2015 elections.

  10. We Are Writing a Poem about Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    A radio poem from Kate Clanchy and the Very Quiet Foreign Girls.

  11. Bee Journal

    Poem sequence by Sean Borodale centring on bees and the hive. With the voice of Bellatrix.

  12. Wake Up Baby

    An exploration of the sometimes unsettling world of 'reassuring' technology.

  13. The Scrapbook: Memoirs of a Forensic Investigator

    Matt Thompson profiles former forensic investigator Jack Sturiano.

  14. Mr Rainbow

    Kafka-inspired drama about a young man seeking advice from a series of self-help experts.

  15. Into the Valley

    Mark Burman takes his microphone for a ride into the legendary Monument Valley.

  16. School for Harmonicas

    The best harmonica impression of a train you will ever hear - no question.

  17. Deliverance

    A new radio poem by Lemn Sissay featuring five women's audio diaries of pregnancy.

  18. The Simpson Ferrograph

    The story behind a set of audio recordings from the 1950s discovered on reel-to-reel tapes

  19. The 21-Gun Salute Suit

    A documentary about one of Britain's most revered performance poets, John Cooper Clarke.

  20. Coma Songs

    A meditation on the cultural representation of comas.

  21. More than a Desert

    Poet Kate Tempest with a portrait of the Kent beach where film-maker Derek Jarman lived.

  22. Eschatology

    A drama about the end of the world, as seen from a liner on a deserted sea.

  23. Skylarking

    Feature on looking up at a blue sky, as Cathy FitzGerald meets a prisoner and a paraglider

  24. Music in the Great War: Wilfred Owen - The Soldiers' Poet

    Soldiers, from corporal to general, choose, read and speak about a poem by Wilfred Owen.

  25. Sky Boy

    A flight simulation in sound, featuring a portrait of trapeze artist Matt Costain.

  26. Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom

    Lenny Henry stars in a musical fantasy about TS Eliot's 1964 dinner with Groucho Marx.

  27. How Was Your Day Joe?

    How can Joe, a boy on the autistic spectrum, answer a question teeming with possibilities?

  28. Chinoiserie

    Drama in which an exiled novelist meets an author writing about a shape-shifting princess.

  29. Play and Record

    Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound recordist taping the Garden of Eden.

  30. Re:Union

    Owen Sheers's new poem explores the relationship between rugby and modern Welsh identity.

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