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Between the Ears Episodes

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    Second Side Up - a Life Captured in Radio

    Documentary about an aspiring disc jockey who turned his life into a cassette radio show.

  2. Danu - Dead Flows the Don

    David Bramwell confronts his fear of water, exploring the history of the river Don.

  3. Sounds Like She

    A musical exploration by transgender women of voice and gender.

  4. The Enemy Within

    An intimate exploration of living with a partner who returns home traumatised by war.

  5. Between the Essays

    A musical suite of innovative radio features from around the world.

  6. The Shepherd

    Innovative adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's haunting classic aviation Christmas tale.

  7. Tower of Babel

    Robert Wilson's impressionistic interpretation of the story of the Tower of Babel.

  8. Rain

    Rain, Alice Oswald's radio poem, commissioned in 2016 for Radio 3's 70th anniversary.

  9. Tomorrow Never Knew

    Revolver and the long shadow of The Beatles on the people of Liverpool.

  10. Requiem

    The instruments of a string ensemble are physically deconstructed as they play Beethoven.

  11. Between Ballard's Ears

    Enter JG Ballard's innerspace with two new binaural dramatisations of his short fiction.

  12. Jump Blue

    A recreation of the final descent of the great Russian freediver, Natalia Molchanova.

  13. The Mind's Eye

    Soundscapes exploring how personal experience influences our mind's eye.

  14. The Latecomers

    The second of Glenn Gould's three sound documentaries, to mark Canada Day 2016.

  15. A Beastly Midsummer Night

    Drama about a family of four exploring the magic of a Norfolk wood on midsummer night.

  16. The Impossible Book

    Drama about a writer suffering hallucinations on a train travelling through time and space

  17. Seelonce, Seelonce: A Call for Help

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

  18. Inside Radio Alwan

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

  19. First Find Your Tree

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

  20. The Three Second Rule

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

  21. Return to Brigg Fair

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

  22. Yuletide in the Land of Ice and Fire

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

  23. White Rabbits in Sussex

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

  24. Alice at Crackpot Hall

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

  25. The Dhammazedi Bell

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

  26. We Are Writing a Poem about Home

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

  27. Bee Journal

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

  28. Wake Up Baby

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

  29. The Scrapbook: Memoirs of a Forensic Investigator

    Matt Thompson profiles former forensic investigator Jack Sturiano.

  30. Mr Rainbow

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

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