Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Sounding Post

9 May 2008
Produced by Nina Perry

Between The Ears
In this composed feature, Nina Perry explores the relationship between music and wood by tracing the origins of the wood used in the making of a musical instrument back to a tree in the forest.

With contributions from guitarist Laurence Juber, Irish flute maker Martin Doyle, forester Martin Charlton, wood supplier David Dyke, luthier Martin Bowers, Paul Scott of the Greenpeace Music Wood Campaign and craftsmen and villagers from the Mpingo Conservation Project in eastern Tanzania.

Sounding Post has been selected as one of two entries from the UK for the Prix Europa, to be held in Berlin in October 2008.

  • David Dyke and Martin Charlton