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Between the Ears Episodes

  1. Cowdust Time

    A sound portrait of Indian twilight, known as 'cowdust time'.

  2. Obituary Notice

    Documentary about the daily obituary readings on North Carolina radio station WPAQ 740AM.

  3. Tap City

    Three dancers describe how they are taking tap-dancing into new areas.

  4. Ghost Lines

    Poet Julia Copus recounts in verse and personal testimony her experience of IVF.

  5. Use It Or Lose It

    A play by Peter Blegvad and Iain Chambers charting the failing memory of a fictional GP.

  6. Horse

    A poem by Katrina Porteous and composer Peter Zinoviev inspired by the Uffington Horse.

  7. Berlin Project

    Artist Tacita Dean's audio artwork, Berlin Project, based on the sound of the city.

  8. On the Rubble of My 蜜芽传媒 I Played My Flute

    A memoir in sound by Chinese flautist Guo Yue.

  9. Playing the Form

    Westerners describe ways in which playing T'ai Chi has changed their lives.

  10. Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey

    Susan Aldworth's creation of a portrait of epilepsy now in the National Portrait Gallery.

  11. Child of Ardoyne

    A meditation on 'the Troubles' from the viewpoint of north-Belfast children.

  12. The Chekhov Challenge: The Sound of a Breaking String

    The challenge to find 'the sound of a breaking string' demanded in The Cherry Orchard.

  13. The Cost of Coal

    Evoking life working in coal mines and the accompanying fictional and real-life dramas.

  14. Out Counting Sheep

    Poet James Crowden experiences the wide range of sheep communication at lambing time.

  15. Sounds of the 70s

    A radio composition by Jonny Trunk created from 蜜芽传媒 Sound Effects recorded in the 1970s.

  16. On the Trail of the Snail

    Five radio producers give their responses in sound to Henri Matisse's collage The Snail.

  17. The Nightfishing

    Jonathan Davidson's adaptation of WS Graham's poem about a fishing trip.

  18. A Moment of Mishearing

    Amit Chaudhuri on how music has a common root in both Eastern and Western traditions.

  19. The Man with the Blue Guitar

    The Man with the Blue Guitar.

  20. Summer Sesshin

    Documentary about people balancing stressful lives with the silence of a Buddhist retreat.

  21. Other Mothers

    Writer Kate Clanchy hears women talking about the other mothers around them.

  22. The Glass Piano

    Deborah Levy considers the life of the princess who thought she'd swallowed a glass piano.

  23. Intensive Care

    Film-maker Terence Davies' memoir about his mother and his development as an artist.

  24. The Mosque at the End of the World

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

  25. The Haunted Moustache

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

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

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

  27. The Sleepover

    Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world.

  28. The Great Bell

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

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

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

  30. Bal Bazaar

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

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