Between the Ears

Karl Marx's penultimate journey was as a corpse in a coffin being trundled up the very steep hill of Highgate to what sh... Read more

The innovative composer and electronic music pioneer Matthew Herbert physically deconstructs the instruments of a string... Read more

You can never see through someone else's eyes, but can we, by stealth, tap into people's visual imaginations?The mind's ... Read more

Before the magic of photography, the dazzle of cinema - there was the diorama.Frenchman Louis Daguerre is known primaril... Read more

A meditation on the cultural representation of comas through music, poetry and interviews with the families of people wh... Read more

Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound-recordist taping the Garden of Eden and recalls the impoverished soundscape of... Read more

Is karaoke the modern sea shanty? Containers are the nearly invisible carriers of 90% of the goods on earth – yet we kno... Read more

Joe is home from school."How was your day Joe?" asks his mum Emma (the producer of the programme).But Joe, and many like... Read more

Imagine a town of harmonica players; sounds a bit surreal?Now 'Between the Ears' gives listeners a chance to hear the ha... Read more

In a melting magical funnel of musical love (and the odd bit of reverb), musician David Bramwell investigates the unlike... Read more

Alice Oswald's radio poem Rain was commissioned by Radio 3 in 2016 as part of the 70th anniversary celebrations. Written... Read more

Newcastle writer David Almond investigates the story of a wild child who was said to roam the Yorkshire Dales near Crack... Read more

Monument Valley, which straddles the state lines of Arizona and Utah, is a place most of us have seen and never visited ... Read more

'The old pagan gods, when ousted by Christianity, took refuge in the rivers, where they still dwell' - Old English sayin... Read more

The detection of Gravitational Waves in 2015 was hailed as an astounding breakthrough in the world of physics and a triu... Read more

A baby sleeps.A man in another room watches her on a screen.Her loving father?No.This man does not know this baby. He's ... Read more

To view the VR experience in 360 on your smartphone, either click or paste the following link into your search browser:h... Read more

The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson, which inspires her life and work and is ... Read more

Julia Hollander, her brother Tom and father Tony tell the story of a letter from the BBC, which saved their family, spaw... Read more