Sleeper Train
In 2017, audio producer Phil Smith travelled to Ukraine to attend his friend's wedding. There, somewhere between the cities of Ivano-Frankiv...
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An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, immerse yourself: it’s time to go slow.A lo-fi celebration of pure sound.
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20 of 138 episodesMorocco Suite
From the medina of Marrakech to the palmeries in Zagora, join sound recordists Andrea Campisi and Silvia Malnati as they embark upon a roadt...
Sounds of the Earth - husky howls and oystercatchers
Relax with a mix of music and natural sounds, recorded by Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast listeners. Three dawn choruses from across the UK, starri...
The Clock
Time unravels in this hypnotic audio journey... In this edition of Slow Radio, we tumble inside the delicate mechanism of the clock - our at...
Berlin's Hidden Soundscape
How does the Berlin urban landscape sound? Using a unique approach that combines field recordings and photographs translated into audio, the...
Sounds of the Earth - from the Himalayas to Dehli
Relax with a mix of music and natural sounds, recorded by Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast listeners. We start in the Himalayas and end in an urban...
A Journey through Ramallah
YA Z AN, a Palestinian Berlin-based artist, travels around his hometown of Ramallah, located in the heart of the West Bank. During his journ...
Sounds of an ascent on foot to the summit of the imposing North Grigna mountain in Italy.
With its peak at 2410 metres in altitude, the North Grigna is an imposing quasi-mythical character in the local culture of the Lombardy regi...
Sounds of the Earth - Rooks, Bats and Toads
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from rooks on Orkney to a midwife toad chirruping in south-west France. Plus bats in L...
The Hum of the Hive
Beekeeper Anthony Smith looks after several hundred beehives across Herefordshire and South East Wales. This episode of Slow Radio takes us...
Sounds of the Earth - The BBC Wild Isles mix
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. A special edition featuring the Sounds of the Earth mixes of music and the incredible...
Transmitter
Across Britain, 352 BBC transmitters stand, mostly on the tops of hills broadcasting sound, music and voices invisibly across the country. I...
Sounds of the Earth - the Blackbird, the Nightingale and the new-born Lamb
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. This springtime special features a blackbird singing at daybreak in Newcastle, a night...
The sounds of the BBC’s Wild Isles
This Slow Radio experience features sounds from the BBC television programme Wild Isles: a chance to revel in the extraordinary sounds recor...
Sounds of the Earth - Brazilian Rainforest and Banjo Frogs
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from the Atlantic rainforests of Brazil to Eastern Banjo Frogs in Adelaide, Australia....
Inside the Temple
There’s a gentle rhythm to everyday life in a Hindu temple, that follows carefully choreographed rituals linked to the care of the deities -...
Sounds of the Earth - Seychelles and Barbados
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from birdsong and tortoises in the Seychelles to waves and whistling frogs in Barbados...
The Glacier in Retreat
High in the mountains snow falls. As it comes to rest on the frozen slopes it become part of an ancient glacier. Over the course of 100 year...
A Sunday walk through Harlem
It is January 2022, and in the Upper Manhattan neighbourhood of Harlem all is quiet as people stay at home, preferring not to venture out in...
Sounds of the Earth - Scottish Highlands, Faroe Islands
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds: a walk in the Faroe Islands, a deer in the Scottish Highlands, a robin in Northamptons...