Sleeper Train

Slow Radio by BBC

Feb 25, 202430:01Science & Medicine

In 2017, audio producer Phil Smith travelled to Ukraine to attend his friend's wedding. There, somewhere between the cities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Odessa, he fell in love with the soundworld of the sleeper train: i...

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