In the company of other poets, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social explores the silences when it feels like words have left you.

Listen to When the Words Leave on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social

Music - Phil Smith
Prod - Eleanor McDowall

In this week’s Between the Ears, saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen travels to Sápmi, to Ohcejohka (Utsjoki), to visit his friend, writer–musician Niillas Holmberg.

The two artists go rowing in the river, improvise under the Sámi bridge, and make music with birds… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Listen to The Last Cowboys on The Documentary podcast from the BBC World Service - a long-haul view of the life of modern truckers in Europe

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There are so many problems in the world. For the past 3 years, Estonian clown Julia Masli - armed with a microphone taped to a mannequin leg - has been trying to solve them.

Listen to Problems with Julia Masli on Radio 4 at 7.15pm or later on the Illuminated podcast

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Delighted to see Dust - from our Lights Out podcast - featured in Aesthetica Festival’s first ever official audio selection

Drawing on ideas in his book, On Time and Water, @andrimagnason.bsky.social and the artist Katie Paterson explore how our imagination can help us hold the moment we live in

With playwrights Dawn King and Georgia Bruce, director Atri Banerjee and Cress Brown of Cutting the Tightrope.

Produced by Alan Hall
Mixed by @mikemixes.bsky.social

Listen at 4pm today - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Broken friendship, typefaces, lost words, self-destruction and the legacies we didn’t intend to leave…

Listen to Souvenirs (produced by @allusionistshow.bsky.social’s @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social) in tomorrow’s Artworks on BBC Radio 4

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Based on four years of fieldwork by collaborators @bonganikona.bsky.social and @catherineboulle.bsky.social, ‘Time, Paper, Bone’ is an intimate portrait of one woman’s lifelong quest for closure, and South Africa’s long reckoning with the injustices of the past.

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Nombulelo Booi last saw her father – anti-apartheid activist James Booi – in 1963. He was dragged into an armoured police vehicle in the early hours of the morning and never seen again. Decades later, Nombulelo works with South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team to find the remains of her father

Monsoon by @storiesandsound.bsky.social closes this current series of mini Between the Ears on BBC Radio 3

A collage of associations with the Western Indian Ocean trade winds, from the primordial to the personal - a meditative exploration of the polyphonies we carry - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In tonight’s miniature Between the Ears, Kristina Loring explores points of human connection in the eye of the storm.

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In this edition of weather-inspired miniature Between the Ears - summer rains, storms of songs and memories encapsulated in the noise of early home recordings on wax cylinders.

Featuring Luke Owen, the founder of the label Death Is Not The End.

Produced by Adomas Zubė www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Weathering by @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social is tonight’s miniature Between the Ears… 🌧️

Lucy Edwards explores what it means to sense the changing seasons through sound and touch.

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A new series of miniature Between the Ears starts tonight on BBC Radio 3 with @miyukij.bsky.social walking Into the Mire…

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In the final episode of Half-Life on BBC Radio 4 this morning, Joe Dunthorne follows the opening of a public memorial and engages with a private reckoning.

Listen to A Fracture here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Come and hear this banger from 1979 for example…

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The City Forgets - episode 7 of Half-Life airs on BBC Radio 4 this morning - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In Munich, Joe Dunthorne traces a very different side to his family history, events that were left out of his great-grandfather’s memoir.