Between the Ears - Water Towers of New York - BBC Sounds

Brighstone 428

A sound portrait in which artist Graeme Miller captures the poetry of the landline.

• 30 mins

On Imaginary Media

Radiophonic drama exploring the irrational beliefs we project onto new technologies.

• 30 mins

Solitary

Inside the disturbing world of solitary confinement, the prison within a prison.

• 30 mins

The Clash

The ferocious Gaelic game of hurling meets the gentle craft of the hurley stick maker.

• 20 mins

The Shanty Boat

Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern-day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.

• 30 mins

The Plot for Karl Marx

Alan Dein explores Karl Marx's journey from corpse to bronze monolith.

• 30 mins

Drever, Ligo

A poetic meditation on physicist Ronald Drever and the search for Gravitational Waves.

• 29 mins

A Cow a Day

A meditative journey within the sonic backdrop of the ancient Indian city of Varanasi.

• 30 mins

Astronautica Fantastica

Young children listen to classic film soundtracks and invent original stories.

• 29 mins

In Praise of Shadows

Nick Luscombe explores the sonic landscape of Junichiro Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'.

• 30 mins

The Sheep of Art

Writer Chris Stewart knows a thing or two about sheep. Alexandra Harris knows art. Baa!

• 30 mins

Right Between the Ears

Haunted by noises heard whilst undergoing surgery, Ken Hollings searches for primal sound.

• 30 mins

Omay

Binaural documentary on an anthropologist's quest to live with an uncontacted tribe.

• 30 mins

The NHS Symphony

The rhythms of life in the NHS captured in immersive stereo and specially composed music.

• 29 mins

Miss Birdie's Letter

Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf is on the trail of a letter sent to her Jamaican grandmother

• 29 mins

The Last Elfdalians

A journey through the mysteries of the endangered Swedish forest language, Elfdalian.

• 29 mins

The Milk Way

A radiophonic poem following the flow of milk east out of Wales while the land flows west.

• 29 mins

The In-Between Land

The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson

• 29 mins

Message from the Moon

On a journey to the Moon, astronauts reflect on creation, God and our place in the cosmos.

• 29 mins

Madame Bertaux

A portrait of the legendary Soho patisserie and the woman for whom it provides a stage.

• 29 mins

Singing, Not Drowning

Can the world’s greatest swimming instructor teach a terrified 57-year-old to swim?

• 29 mins

The Letter

How the music of Janacek and a letter from the BBC saved the Hollander family from Nazism.

• 29 mins

Container Ship Karaoke

19,000 containers can be poor company on a voyage. Time for some karaoke!

• 29 mins

The Virtually Melodic Cave

Between the Ears: The Virtually Melodic Cave

• 29 mins

The Signal-Man

A signalman on a remote railway line is visited by a traveller. By Ross Sutherland.

• 29 mins

The Egg Dealer

It's 1938 - there's been a brutal murder in Fife and the local 'egg dealer' is missing.

• 30 mins

Ladino

In search of the language and culture of the Sephardic Jews, expelled from Spain in 1492.

• 30 mins

Living in a Box

Living off grid whilst in university, fighting for settled status, but happier than ever.

• 14 mins

The M1 Symphony

The life of the M1 in words, sounds and an epic new work played by the BBC Philharmonic.

• 44 mins

Bone Music

How hospital x-rays were used to capture forbidden music in the Cold War

• 30 mins