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Rain
Rain, Alice Oswald's radio poem, commissioned in 2016 for Radio 3's 70th anniversary.
Tower of Babel
Robert Wilson's impressionistic interpretation of the story of the Tower of Babel.
Between the Essays
A musical suite of innovative radio features from around the world.
The Enemy Within
An intimate exploration of living with a partner who returns home traumatised by war.
Sounds Like She
A musical exploration by transgender women of voice and gender.
Danu - Dead Flows the Don
David Bramwell confronts his fear of water, exploring the history of the river Don.
Second Side Up - a Life Captured in Radio
Documentary about an aspiring disc jockey who turned his life into a cassette radio show.
Water Towers of New York
A soundscape centring on the water tanks atop some of New York City's tall buildings.
Brighstone 428
A sound portrait in which artist Graeme Miller captures the poetry of the landline.
On Imaginary Media
Radiophonic drama exploring the irrational beliefs we project onto new technologies.
Solitary
Inside the disturbing world of solitary confinement, the prison within a prison.
The Clash
The ferocious Gaelic game of hurling meets the gentle craft of the hurley stick maker.
The Shanty Boat
Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern-day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.
The Plot for Karl Marx
Alan Dein explores Karl Marx's journey from corpse to bronze monolith.
Drever, Ligo
A poetic meditation on physicist Ronald Drever and the search for Gravitational Waves.
A Cow a Day
A meditative journey within the sonic backdrop of the ancient Indian city of Varanasi.
Astronautica Fantastica
Young children listen to classic film soundtracks and invent original stories.
In Praise of Shadows
Nick Luscombe explores the sonic landscape of Junichiro Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'.
The Sheep of Art
Writer Chris Stewart knows a thing or two about sheep. Alexandra Harris knows art. Baa!
Right Between the Ears
Haunted by noises heard whilst undergoing surgery, Ken Hollings searches for primal sound.
Omay
Binaural documentary on an anthropologist's quest to live with an uned tribe.
The NHS Symphony
The rhythms of life in the NHS captured in immersive stereo and specially composed music.
Miss Birdie's Letter
Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf is on the trail of a letter sent to her Jamaican grandmother.
The Last Elfdalians
A journey through the mysteries of the endangered Swedish forest language, Elfdalian.
The Milk Way
A radiophonic poem following the flow of milk east out of Wales while the land flows west.
The In-Between Land
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson
Message from the Moon
On a journey to the Moon, astronauts reflect on creation, God and our place in the cosmos.
Madame Bertaux
A portrait of a legendary Soho patisserie and the woman for whom it provides a stage.
Singing, Not Drowning
Can the world’s greatest swimming instructor teach a terrified 57-year-old to swim?
The Letter
How the music of Janacek and a letter from the BBC saved the Hollander family from Nazism.
Container Ship Karaoke
19,000 containers can be poor company on a voyage. Time for some karaoke!
