1. A cochlear implant comprising: a behind the ear (BTE) sound processing unit; a cable; a transmit unit connected to said BTE by said cable and configured to transmit signals from said BTE to an internal component of said cochlear implant; a plurality of spatially-arranged audio sensors, configured to receive ambient sound, and comprising any combination of: a sensor located in said BTE, a sensor located in said transmit unit, and a sensor located in said cable; and a directional sound processor having an array-processing stage configured to generate a directional sound signal from sound received by a first one of said plurality of sensors, and wherein said directional sound processor is configured to combine said directional sound signal and a signal representative of sound received by a second one of said plurality of sensors to generate a processed sound signal from which sound received from non-desired directions is attenuated.