A programme that presents methods of listening as they are used by astrophysicists, urbanists, architects, audiologists, artists, anthropologists, writers, neurologists and more. Edited and produced by Salomé Voegelin. This week: In this twelfth broadcast in the series we will hear from Cathy Lane, composer and sound artist, Professor of Sound Art and co-director of CRiSAP at the London College of Communication, UAL, who will be talking about sound based investigations of place and listening to the past through the present. Through a discussion of her work in the Outer Hebrides she ponders notions of archives and archiving, history and orality and negotiates issues of communication and how we record and compose the spoken voice and situate its social body in sound. Visit listeningacrossdisciplines.net for more information. Tweet to @listenacross. [Repeated Monday 11am.]

Studio Visit is an hour-long in depth interview based programme, presented by Morgan Quaintance, featuring international contemporary artists, writers and theorists as guests. Today: Morgan talks to British artist and filmmaker Sophie Michael about her recent Tate Britain solo show. [Repeated Thursday 9am.]

Fari Bradley focuses on choice contemporary Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian sound, art and culture. This week: 'The Far Becomes Near,' created by Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver. A new four-part series (broadcast monthly as a change to the normal Six Pillars schedule) which creatively archive the history of radio broadcasting in the United Arab Emirates: radiophonic experiments punctuated by interviews with local historians, academics, cultural commentators and the federation’s earliest broadcasters. Today's episode (1/4): ‘When Iron Speaks’ - a transmission from the future. Beamed from space to the present day as an archived audio database, recent history is observed by people of another millennium. The archive of early memories are primary and secondary sources, describing a Gulf tuned in to a world outside. Visit sixpillars.org for more information. [Repeated Friday 3.30pm.]