Episodes
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. Cornish waves, Welsh cows, a wren in a walnut tree and rain in the Galician mountains, recorded by Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast listeners Adriana Flores, Sean Tobin, Penny Lawrence and Alex Lisle.
Published 10/04/22
The ever-present and changing sound of the wind on Fair Isle.
Published 09/01/22
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. Featuring recordings of birdsong from Kelso to Senegal sent in by Radio 3 Breakfast listeners listeners Betsy Barker, Caroline Fiennes, Helen Boyles and Ros Bleach.
Published 07/22/22
Join Honey, a 15-year-old fox-red labrador, as she goes about her day.
Published 07/03/22
The sounds of a small boat on the tidal Thames and the calls on its two-way radio.
Published 05/29/22
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. Featuring recordings of spring birdsong in Bath, Leamington Spa, Gloucestershire, and the island of Mauritius, sent in by Radio 3 Breakfast listeners Colette Wilson, Anthea Asprey, Judy Bailey and John Fenner.
Published 05/25/22
Stockholm-based artist Milo Lavén reveals the hidden world within slowed-down sounds.
Published 04/24/22
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from the Fens to the Scilly Isles via St Albans and Shaftesbury. Featuring recordings of birds, frogs and horses made by Radio 3 listeners Susie Nicholls, Tom Perrett, David Learner and Stuart Macer.
Published 04/19/22
City life and moments of calm – a sound portrait of Riley Square in Coventry, recorded with artists Georgiou & Tolley.
Published 03/27/22
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from Kenya to New Zealand via Lancashire and the Cotswolds. Featuring recordings made by Radio3 Breakfast listeners Cathy Tattersfield and Josh Clarke, and BBC Natural History recordists Trevor Gosling and Nigel Tucker.
Published 03/16/22
The sounds of energy generation across the industrial heart of Northumberland.
Published 02/25/22
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. From midwinter on the English coast to the floodplains of Central Brazil via an Oxfordshire canal and a Somerset millpond, this month's mix focuses on birds. Includes listener recordings made by Michael Bawtree and Paul Miles, BBC Natural History Unit recordings from Tim Bevan and Paul Reddish, and several made by sound recordist Chris Watson.
Published 01/30/22
In the dream(ing) field, black women and femmes re-vision their relationship with land.
Published 01/28/22
Tokyo-based DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe explores the sound of winter in Japan.
Published 01/06/22
The sounds of the cosmos revealed through the sonification of astronomical data.
Published 01/02/22
There are 107 bell towers in Venice. Wherever you go in the city the passage of time is measured by the echo of bells across rooftops. But the biggest bell of them all – the Marangona in St. Mark's Basilica – only stirs into sound twice a day: at midday and midnight. In this beautiful soundscape Radio 3’s Slow Radio takes you from the chime of Marangona at midday, along lapping canals and whispering alleyways, across piazzas and bridges, around this evocative city, until midnight, when the...
Published 12/20/21
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a Loch in the Scottish Highlands to the evergreen forests of Thailand via South Africa and a tiny Gloucestershire village. With field recordings by Hugh Manistree, Grace Niska Atkins, Christopher Hammond and Dave Reid.
Published 11/29/21
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a wolf sanctuary in Portugal to a watery Danish peninsula. Plus, sounds from grazing time at Lake Naivasha, Kenya and evening sunlight at the South Downs National Park with rooks, pigeons and a nightingale.
Published 11/05/21
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the ruins of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight to Cerne Abbas in Dorset, via a 15th Century church in Kings Norton and a leafy park in Oxfordshire. With field recordings by Mary Edwards and Scott Armbruster, John Mears, Robin Mills and Pete Kirkman.
Published 10/11/21
After a break of over a year owing to Covid 19 Restrictions, Calum and Claire MacAulay travel back to their native Skye and North Uist for a long awaited reunion with family.
Published 10/03/21
Experience a night-time journey from central London to the Suffolk coast, on a bicycle.
Published 09/28/21
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Scottish border, to a remote island in the Cyclades, via Northumbrian moorlands and the Ribble Valley. With field recordings by Chris Watson, Heather Wright and Tom and Jan Perrett.
Published 09/01/21
An audio voyage to the remote island of Lundy, a haven for marine wildlife. 12 miles off the coast of North Devon, Lundy has long been a place of refuge. Once ruled by Barbary pirates and political plotters, the island's stormy history has blown over, leaving a peaceful haven, awash with wildlife, and home to just 20 people. Stepping ashore from the ferry, MS Oldenburg, we'll be castaways for the night, and our to guide us, is the island's nature warden, Dean Woodfin-Jones. Walking the...
Published 08/29/21
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the parks of Madrid, to the southern tip of Exmoor National Park via the Malvern Hills. With field recordings by Kevin Tomkins, Julian Tanner, Tom Perrett and Ollie Marks.
Published 08/06/21
Escape to the seaside and enjoy the sounds of a day at the fair. As the country comes out of long periods of enforced lockdown, it's good to be reminded of the fun things that bring people together, and escape to a happy place, with reminders of holidays, childhood, excitement and wonder. The Pleasure Beach at Great Yarmouth is a family-run business that has stood on the sea front for over a hundred years. It mixes the latest fairground ride technology with vintage favourites. This Slow...
Published 06/28/21