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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: Between the Ears at 20: Shadowplay

Between the Ears: Between the Ears at 20: Shadowplay: Part 1: Theme and Variations: What We Value

Theme and Variations: What We Value

Part 1 Part 1: Theme and Variations: What We Value

Between the Ears at 20

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Considering what we value: wealth, health, liberty and happiness.

Part of a 'radio symphony' about the difference between appearance and reality, considering what we value: wealth, health, liberty and happiness.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.

The words of TS Eliot provide a cue for this playful, challenging and touching anniversary series celebrating 20 years of Between the Ears.

Radio 3's showcase for adventurous feature-making was launched in October 1993 with a 'piece for radio', by the composer Ian Gardiner. 'Monument', which was conceived as a kind of London symphony, received the prestigious Prix Italia the following year.

Shadowplay offers a new four-part 'symphony of voices', exploring the shadows that may fall between the appearance of things and their reality. Making use of the full palette available to the radio producer - documentary, fiction, music, pure sound - four feature-makers address our values, our identities, our romantic inclinations and our sense of worth.

In the first movement 'Theme and Variations', ideas about what we value - wealth, health, liberty and happiness - are revealed through the experiences and insights of the economists Ha-Joon Chang and Felix Martin, the life-model Sue Tilley and the poet Jazzman John Clarke, and also with reference to Ian Gardiner's 'Monument', Ritalin and Mary Poppins.

Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3.

Between the Ears: Between the Ears at 20

Shadowplay

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

A series of sonically adventurous features, marking 20 years of Between the Ears

A 'radio symphony' focusing on the difference between appearance and reality

A four-movement 'radio symphony' celebrating 20 years of Between the Ears, focusing on the difference between appearance and reality

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