BBC Radio Podcasts from Between the Ears
Sound First and Words First
Sound designers work with poets to create new soundworlds around spoken word performances
From Dusk Till Dawn
Field recordings across East Anglia at night-time create an atmospheric radiophonic work.
Deep Listening in Japan
A sonic journey into Japan's unique culture of music cafés and listening bars.
Imagining the Permafrost
A journey into the permafrost
Dying Embers: The UK's last Coal Fired Power Stations
Andrew Carter’s coal-to-kettle soundscape pays homage to these vast cathedrals of power
The Beach
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
Beyond the Box
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
feeling body
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
The House in a House
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
Khangela
Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature
The Virtual Symphony
The joys and horrors of the internet, evoked by stories and a new electronic-vocal work
Rhythms of Remembering
A radiophonic exploration of The Gododdin, a lament for the fallen from the 7th century.
The Nightingales of Berlin
A portrait of Berlin and its residents through the songs of the city’s nightingales.
Telling the Bees
Maria Margaronis escapes into the hive to explore the folk custom of telling the bees.
Sinking Feelings
Enter the netherworld of the Great British bog on a journey into the lost and found.
Flight of the Monarch
The migratory route of the monarch butterfly traced in words, music and sound.
Brief Encounters
Stories of real-life chance encounters mark the anniversary of the film Brief Encounter.
The Rising Sea Symphony
The effects of climate change evoked in words, sounds and a powerful new musical work
The Vet at the End of the World
Seal attacks, snapping penguins, angry bulls... a vet's life on Tristan Da Cunha.
Diorama Drama
Before there was cinema, there was the diorama. Now extinct, we bring it back to life!
The Virtually Melodic Cave
A virtual reality radio documentary brings to life the ethereal magic of Fingal's Cave.
Container Ship Karaoke
19,000 containers can be poor company on a voyage. Time for some karaoke!
The Letter
How the music of Janacek and a letter from the BBC saved the Hollander family from Nazism.
The In-Between Land
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson
The NHS Symphony
The rhythms of life in the NHS captured in immersive stereo and specially composed music.
The Mind's Eye
Soundscapes exploring how personal experience influences our mind's eye.
Right Between the Ears
Haunted by noises heard whilst undergoing surgery, Ken Hollings searches for primal sound.
The Sheep of Art
Writer Chris Stewart knows a thing or two about sheep. Alexandra Harris knows art. Baa!
Drever, Ligo
A poetic meditation on physicist Ronald Drever and the search for Gravitational Waves.
The Three Second Rule
To see why the relaxed brain is happiest, artist Susan Aldworth slides inside a scanner.
The Plot for Karl Marx
Alan Dein explores Karl Marx's journey from corpse to bronze monolith.
The Shanty Boat
Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern-day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.
Danu - Dead Flows the Don
David Bramwell confronts his fear of water, exploring the history of the river Don.
Rain
Rain, Alice Oswald's radio poem, commissioned in 2016 for Radio 3's 70th anniversary.
Requiem
The instruments of a string ensemble are physically deconstructed as they play Beethoven.
Seelonce, Seelonce: A Call for Help
An exploration of the history and the development of the language of the call for help.
White Rabbits in Sussex
How an amateur production of Alice Through the Looking Glass became a psychedelic record.
Alice at Crackpot Hall
The truth behind the story of a wild child found roaming at Crackpot Hall in Swaledale.
Wake Up Baby
An exploration of the sometimes unsettling world of 'reassuring' technology.
Into the Valley
Mark Burman takes his microphone for a ride into the legendary Monument Valley.
School for Harmonicas
The best harmonica impression of a train you will ever hear - no question.
The Simpson Ferrograph
The story behind a set of audio recordings from the 1950s discovered on reel-to-reel tapes
The 21-Gun Salute Suit
A documentary about one of Britain's most revered performance poets, John Cooper Clarke.
Coma Songs
A meditation on the cultural representation of comas.
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.
Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom
Lenny Henry stars in a musical fantasy about TS Eliot's 1964 dinner with Groucho Marx.
How Was Your Day Joe?
How can Joe, a boy on the autistic spectrum, answer a question teeming with possibilities?
Play and Record
Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound recordist taping the Garden of Eden.
Re:Union
Owen Sheers's new poem explores the relationship between rugby and modern Welsh identity.
Final Movement: Art Values
Life model Sue Tilley features in an exploration of the value of art.
Third Movement: Romantic Scherzo
An exploration of romantic expectations, illusions and delusions.
Sonic Art Boom - The Art of Noise
Composer Dan Jones celebrates sound art.
Slow Movement: Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel
A man struggles to meditate as he realises he is sitting next to actor Harvey Keitel.
And the Consequence Was...
Steve Urquhart presents three interwoven stories about marks left on the body.
She Said/He Said
Bob Carlson's dialogue between a couple about a third person who stumbled into their lives
The Man
Tim Hinman narrates a monologue about a man who wants to shut out noise pollution.
The Woman
Natalie Kestecher describes a documentary fantasy about her unrealistic romantic demands.
Theme and Variations: What We Value
Considering what we value: wealth, health, liberty and happiness.
The Haunted Moustache
David Bramwell probes Victorian psychic phenomena as revealed by a false moustache.