Ear-Movies

Ear-Movies

Movies for your ears - long short stories, just under an hour.

Episodes

November 4, 2024 10 mins

Simon Luckhurst, writer and producer of Ear Movies, talks to ABC Radio's Nick Rheinberger about the genesis of Ear Movies, and the release of the missing episode of Season Four, A Few Lines About Trains, read by Hani Abdile.

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Another train journey... another unexpected stoppage. We've all known them, haven't we? Perhaps not like this one though.

Read by Anne Hani Abdile.

 

Theme music: Trevor Brown Incidental music: Ghosts I-IV 9 by Nine Inch Nails. Free for use under the Noncommercial Share Alike 3.0 United States Content License. Sitar Love - Olistik Sound Project by Patrizio Yoga. Free for use under the Pixabay Content License.

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May 10, 2024 52 mins

There are droughts, and then there are Droughts. And then there are DROUGHTS. This is a not a story of surviving the dry sky though, but about what comes afterwards.

Read by Anne Louise Lambert.

 

Theme music: Trevor Brown Incidental music: Inner Peace Meditation by NaturesEye. Free for use under the Pixabay Content License. Meditation Space - Olistik Sound Project by Patrizio Yoga. Free for use under the Pixabay Content License. ...

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May 10, 2024 48 mins

We’ve all known them, haven’t we? People who fall in love but who then want the other person to change. What if the love is all consuming, though... and the other person is determined to stay the same?

 

Read by Genevieve Turner.

 

Music: Theme music by Trevor Brown. Incidental music: (All tracks from the Johnny Ripper album Soundtrack for a Film That Doesn't Exist. Licensed under Creative Commons and available at the Free Music A...

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May 10, 2024 44 mins

When it’s only a few drops of rain, you don’t recognise the start of a flood, do you? The tipping point doesn’t exist until you proceed, smiling ignorantly, and sail right past it. This rule applies doubly in small country towns...

Read by Travis Spiteri

 

Theme music: Trevor Brown Incidental music: Written and performed by Hillbilly Bill and his Fender Strat. Recorded in Blue Moutain Sound studio on Darug and Gandangara country. ...

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May 10, 2024 51 mins

A fun night in the pub with a bit of philosophy thrown in - or a chance to change the world? You decide...

 

Read by Tony Martin.

 

Theme music: Trevor Brown Incidental music: (All Public Domain tracks from the Open Music Archive.) April Kisses, written and performed by Eddie Lang (1904-1933), recording date unknown. Six Cold Feet in the Ground, written and performed by Leroy Carr (1905-1935), recording date 25 February 1935. Eddi...

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May 10, 2024 47 mins

Universities are places where passion and youth sometimes exceed common sense and reason... and where even a simple game of cricket can become something beyond horrible.

Read by Shane Bourne.

 

Theme music: Trevor Brown Incidental music: Magic in the Garden by Rafael Krux. From FreePD licensed under Creative Commons. Beginning of Conflict by Rafael Krux. From FreePD licensed under Creative Commons. Shining Stars by Rafael Krux. Fr...

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May 10, 2024 51 mins

Every house holds a secret, doesn't it? And in those houses, individual rooms have secrets of their own... and in those rooms, there are items with their own secrets, too. What happens when one of those secrets goes missing? And needs to be returned...

Read by Rachel Blake.

 

Music: Theme music by Trevor Brown Incidental music: (All tracks played by Gregor Quendel) and free for use under the Pixabay Content License.) Moonlight Son...

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May 5, 2024 2 mins

Listen to some snippets of Season 4 of Ear Movies.

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May 4, 2024 2 mins

Listen to some snippets of Season 3 of Ear Movies.

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May 3, 2024 2 mins

Listen to some snippets of Season 2 of Ear Movies.

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May 2, 2024 2 mins

Listen to some snippets from Season 1 of Ear Movies.

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April 22, 2024 61 mins

A grisly discovery leads to years of policework that culminates in the clue of a single spoken word...

Read by John Waters.

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Simon Luckhurst sits down in Trevor's current studio to discuss his music in Season Three of Ear Movies

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February 19, 2023 45 mins

A tale of fond reminiscence, country towns - and the Southern Slopes Strangler...

Read by Catherine McClements.

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February 19, 2023 49 mins

A story of two cops, one stakeout, a determined killer and a mysterious secret.

Read by Bryan Dawe.

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February 19, 2023 49 mins

An impossible crime leads two detectives along a road littered with forensic clues.

Read by Nancy Denis.

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February 19, 2023 51 mins

Australia's most beloved diva is murdered in her locked dressing room in the Sydney Opera House. The chief suspect is her husband - who was on stage in front of 1200 people at the time she died.

Read by Michael Bates.

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February 19, 2023 49 mins

A simple plea in a court case leads a reporter to take a trip back into Sydney's seedy past - where she makes an unexpected discovery.

Read by Nadine Garner.

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February 19, 2023 47 mins

A story of a summer in Sydney with a serial killer on the loose. Will he be caught before he finds the person you love?

Read by Samuel Johnson.

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