Between Ballard's Ears

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Between Ballard's Ears

Enter JG Ballard's innerspace with binaural dramatisations of his short fiction.

4 Extra Debut. Binaural adaptations of JG Ballard’s short fiction, Track 12 and Venus Smiles. Starring Anton Lesser and Christine Bottomley.

JG Ballard's early fiction is full of sonorous surrealism. 

Two fresh, specially commissioned, binaural adaptations of his work reveal the soundscape of one of Britain's greatest imaginations.

In TRACK 12, adapted by Brian Sibley, two men listen in to the fantastically amplified results of microsonics but a different, deadlier game is under way. 

Starring: 

Anton Lesser
Elliot Levey 

In VENUS SMILES, adapted by Frank Cottrell Boyce, an enigmatic artist's sonic sculpture brings chaos and transformation to the luxury resort of Vermilion Sands. 

A story of death and transfiguration.

Starring: 

Christine Bottomley
Carl Prekopp
Kezia Joseph
David Sterne

Director: Mark Burman 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in October 2016.

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