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Innovative and thought-provoking features on a wide variety of subjects

Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.

Between the Ears: UK Crossfade

14/06/2008

UK Crossfade

BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, UK Crossfade

A journey in sound, moving across the UK in a series of fades from one location to another

Charting a journey in sound, moving across the UK in a series of long, very slow and sometimes imperceptible fades from one location to another.

From the Oxford English Dictionary: 

cross-fade: to 'fade in' one sound or picture while 'fading out' another. 


This 'Between the Ears' charts a journey in sound through the UK, moving from west to east, and north to south, in a series of long, very slow and sometimes almost imperceptible fades from one location to another. 

This is a journey in sound alone - a journey without a presenter, interviews, or script. 

At the heart of the programme are location recordings and sound-scapes from a wide range of places across the country - from the morning boats in a Devon harbour to an evening on the seafront in Skegness, via the daytime streets and quads of Oxford and a street parade in Spalding, to the sounds of rural Scotland and urban Lancashire.

The journey follows a simple pattern, which listeners are invited to puzzle out for themselves. 

Producers: John Goudie and Alan Dein.

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