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Between the Ears Episodes

  1. The Mosque at the End of the World

    Writer Tahir Shah explores the square Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech.

  2. The Haunted Moustache

    David Bramwell probes Victorian psychic phenomena as revealed by a false moustache.

  3. The Chekhov Challenge - The Sound of a Breaking String

    Exploring attempts to produce a famous stage direction in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

  4. The Sleepover

    Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world.

  5. The Great Bell

    Stephen Gill depicts bonshou, bronze bells in every Buddhist temple in Japan.

  6. Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me

    Ergo Phizmiz's fantastical encounter with Swiss painter Paul Klee.

  7. Bal Bazaar

    Daljit Nagra's new poetic narrative inspired by his uncle's shops in west London.

  8. Melting Point

    Feature on the environmental, cultural and musical significance of several icy landscapes.

  9. A Season in Hell

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

  10. Salvado

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

  11. Tennyson in Skegness

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

  12. A Wireless Revelation

    Radiophonic version of the text in the Book of Revelations.

  13. Ghost Town

    A portrait evoking vanishing towns in the American Southwest.

  14. Vapourtrain

    Harry Willis Fleming explores the advent of steam train travel.

  15. Empty Ocean

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

  16. Weather Reports You

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

  17. Woven in Time

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

  18. In Memoria

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

  19. Mole Jazz

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

  20. Crossing the Same River Twice

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

  21. When Silence Sings

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

  22. Hearts, Lungs and Minds

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

  23. UK Crossfade

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

  24. Staring at the Wall

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

  25. The Wash

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

  26. A Map of Paradise

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

  27. Out of the Mouths

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

  28. Symphonies of Wind Turbines

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

  29. Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster

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

  30. The Wall of a Million Bricks

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

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