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Month: August 2026
Between the Ears in miniature returns with new short works themed around Midsummer Dreaming. Airing in the run up to our dream-like night of adventurous radio, featuring treasures from the BBC Radio 3 archives from sunset until sunrise on the summer solstice.
Even the sun stands still. In a world designed constantly to produce, where we’re exposed to the daily paralysing effects of doomscrolling and healed by the small joys of the everyday, producer Axel Kacoutié invites us to reflect on how the Sun’s movements can remind us to slow down.
Featuring Georgina Walker, Emily Lucienne and Sol, Aaron Edwards, Mary Letera, Buitumelo Kotekwa, Shadé Joseph, Tiwin Aji, Makella Ama Kededzi, Paul Nataraj, Keyari Page, Eleanor Penny, Baudelaire Ceus, Tasneim Zyada, Fabien Maturin and Somatic Space-Holder, Folk Wizard and Freedom Companion, Jae Gibbs.
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3
Ed is the grandson of footballing legend Gordon Banks. He was a national icon, the only goalkeeper ever to win the soccer World Cup for England. But Ed’s heard a rumour: that in 1970, while defending the title, his granddad, his hero, was poisoned… by the CIA. All part of a Cold War plot to bolster a military dictatorship in Latin America, supposedly. Could this possibly be true? Banks did get ill in Mexico in 1970 with food poisoning. And England crashed out, marking the start of decades of hurt. Ed enlists the help of investigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse. Together they embark on a journey into the bewildering world of Cold War espionage, a journey that threatens to unravel 60 years of sporting history; or possibly… to knock Ed’s granddad off his pedestal.