HOW many times have you passed a jogger with wires coming from their ears and wondered what they were listening to?

Invariably they glide or plod by in their own world of music and pain and the question goes unanswered.

But in one of the commissions for this year’s Bupa Great North Run cultural programme, 13 joggers let us in on their private sound world.

Film-maker David Blandy managed to film the volunteers as they ran, each miming to the music coming from their iPod.

The result, Run A Mile In My Shoes, is currently showing in the gallery known as NewBridge Space at 18 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle (opposite and just along from Newcastle City Libary).

Thirteen screens are fixed to a wall, each showing the image of a jogger from the shoulders up.

In turn, they start to jog and mime to the song they have chosen and which we, too, can hear amplified in the gallery.

You can also just see the top of the harness which carried the camera pointing back and up at themselves.

It’s fascinating and it’s fun. You get the film and you get the lip synching jogger’s personal soundtrack – and in most cases, if you’re like me, you’ll wonder how on earth they find running easier while listening to THAT!

The non-jogger who assumes the pastime is an act of masochism is unlikely to think otherwise on hearing that David Fairlamb puts his best foot forward along to the dirge-like Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by The Smiths.

And it might be added that Mr Fairlamb does not appear to be having a ball on the gallery screen.