Between the Essays

A musical suite of innovative radio features from around the world.

• 75 mins

The Enemy Within

An intimate exploration of living with a partner who returns home traumatised by war.

• 30 mins

Sounds Like She

A musical exploration by transgender women of voice and gender.

• 30 mins

Danu - Dead Flows the Don

David Bramwell confronts his fear of water, exploring the history of the river Don.

• 29 mins

Second Side Up - a Life Captured in Radio

Documentary about an aspiring disc jockey who turned his life into a cassette radio show.

• 30 mins

Water Towers of New York

A soundscape centring on the water tanks atop some of New York City's tall buildings.

• 30 mins

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.

• 29 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 a 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

A virtual reality radio documentary brings to life the ethereal magic of Fingal's Cave.

• 29 mins