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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 3: Third Movement: Romantic Scherzo

Third Movement: Romantic Scherzo

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Between the Ears at 20

BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Between the Ears at 20, Shadowplay, Third Movement: Romantic Scherzo

An exploration of romantic expectations, illusions and delusions.

Exploring romantic expectations, illusions and delusions through the romantic fantasies of a young girl's imagination and the realities of a mature woman's experiences of love.

Shadowplay offers a four-part 'symphony of voices' to celebrate 20 years of Between the Ears, Radio 3's home for adventurous and innovative radio. It explores 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.

3. Romantic Scherzo

Between the romantic fantasies of a young girl's imagination and the realities of a mature woman's experiences of love falls a shadow that allows for a playful exploration of expectations, illusions and (self-)delusions.

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

Produced by Eleanor McDowall.
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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