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Between the Ears Episodes

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    Into the Valley

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

  2. School for Harmonicas

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

  3. Deliverance

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

  4. The Simpson Ferrograph

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

  5. The 21-Gun Salute Suit

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

  6. Coma Songs

    A meditation on the cultural representation of comas.

  7. More than a Desert

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

  8. Eschatology

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

  9. Skylarking

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

  10. 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.

  11. Sky Boy

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

  12. Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom

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

  13. How Was Your Day Joe?

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

  14. Chinoiserie

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

  15. Play and Record

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

  16. Re:Union

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

  18. Return of the Monster from the Id

    In 1956, the film Forbidden Planet introduced the world to the music of the future.

  19. A Song of Bricks and Mortar

    A feature in which artists give insight into their creative process.

  20. Time Travelling in Italy - Finding My Religion

    A time machine in the world's largest underground temple? Secrets of Damanhur revealed.

  21. It's Just Where I Put My Words: A Voice Remembered

    Sebastiane Hegarty explores voice, recording and memory in a sound portrait of his mother.

  22. Sebald's Apocalyptic Vision

    An essay on the writings of WG Sebald, prompted by a theatre version of one of his novels.

  23. A is for Aardvark

    Alan Dein discusses why business use the word aardvark as a name.

  24. Mighty Beast

    Documentary version of Sean Borodale's poem set at a cattle market.

  25. Space Ham

    A celebrationg of amateur radio enthusiasts who eavesdrop on space exploration.

  26. The Scalpel and the Bow

    A feature comparing the worlds of the medical surgeon and performing musicians.

  27. My Life in the Ghosts of Bush

    An evocation of the sounds of Bush House, formerly home of the 麻豆社 World Service.

  28. The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise

    A radio version of Georges Perec's avant-garde book about asking for a salary raise.

  29. Disequilibrium

    Sound designer Nick Ryan explores the disorientating effects of a balance disorder.

  30. Belongings

    Following people making difficult decisions about what to keep and what to throw away.

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