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The Essay

Between the Essays

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Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall

Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, in response to the five-line poem 'November Night'.

In tonight's edition, 'Listen', the Danish radio producer Rikke Houd explores how hearing radio for the first time transformed one Irishman's life. Featuring Pat Herbert from the Hurdy Gurdy Museum.

A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 3 Show less

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