BBC Radio Podcasts from Slow Radio
Sleeper Train
Overnight trains weave their way across Ukraine through sounds gathered in 2017.
Morocco Suite
Travels across the southeast of Morocco: a sonic road trip in four movements.
Sounds of the Earth - husky howls and oystercatchers
Relax with a mix of music and natural sounds.
The Clock
Time unravels in this hypnotic audio journey inside the delicate mechanism of the clock.
Berlin's Hidden Soundscape
A combination of field recordings and images of Berlin translated to sound.
Sounds of the Earth - from the Himalayas to Dehli
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
A Journey through Ramallah
A journey through Ramallah captures nature sounds and a community's musical rhythm.
Sounds of an ascent on foot to the summit of the imposing North Grigna mountain in Italy.
Sounds of an ascent on foot to the summit of the imposing North Grigna mountain in Italy.
Sounds of the Earth - Rooks, Bats and Toads
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
The Hum of the Hive
Immerse yourself in the soundworld of honeybees.
Sounds of the Earth - The BBC Wild Isles mix
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
Transmitter
What do BBC transmitters hear at 11.30 at night?
Sounds of the Earth - the Blackbird, the Nightingale and the new-born Lamb
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
The sounds of the BBC’s Wild Isles
Sounds from the BBC television series Wild Isles, introduced by Sir David Attenborough.
Sounds of the Earth - Brazilian Rainforest and Banjo Frogs
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
Inside the Temple
Following everyday life in a Hindu temple, revolving around the care of the deities.
Sounds of the Earth - Seychelles and Barbados
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
The Glacier in Retreat
Charting the progress of glaciers through recordings from deep within and around them.
A Sunday walk through Harlem
A Sunday stroll through the neighbourhood of Harlem on a cold winter's day.
Sounds of the Earth - Scottish Highlands, Faroe Islands
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
A Journey across the Steppes
A 1,000-mile journey from the Kazakh city Almaty to the Aral Sea.
The Reindeer
The Reindeer follows the epic travels of a reindeer mother and her young.
Sounds of the Earth - Sanderlings on Shetland, Birds in Buenos Aires
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
Sounds of the Earth - water falling, curlews calling
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
Sounds of the Earth - City sparrows, wallowing elephants
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
Underground Wales
Owen Sheers's radio poem explores the sound world of the underground spaces of Wales.
Sounds of the Earth - Cows, Rain and a Wren
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
Fair Winds
The ever-present and changing sound of the wind on Fair Isle.
Sounds of the Earth - May
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
A Day in the Life of Honey the Dog
Join Honey, a 15-year-old fox-red labrador, as she goes about her day.
Very High Frequency Between Gravesend and Greenhithe
The sounds of a small boat on the tidal Thames and the calls on its two-way radio.
Sounds of the Earth - April
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from Mauritius to Gloucestershire.
Slow Motion Sounds
Stockholm-based artist Milo Lavén reveals the hidden world within slowed-down sounds.
Sounds of the Earth - March
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from the Fens to the Scilly Isles.
Coventry's Riley Square
A sound portrait of Riley Square, Coventry.
Sounds of the Earth - February
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from Kenya to New Zealand.
Northumberland's Electric Coast
The sounds of energy generation across the industrial heart of Northumberland.
Sounds of the Earth - January
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
Nick Luscombe's Japan Winter
Tokyo-based DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe explores the sound of winter in Japan.
A Sonic Journey across the Universe
The sounds of the cosmos revealed through the sonification of astronomical data.
Sounds of the Earth - December
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Caribbean to Canada.
Venice Between the Bells
Following the canals and alleyways of Venice, from midday to midnight
Sounds of the Earth - November
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Scotland to Thailand.
Sounds of the Earth - October
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Portugal to Denmark.
Sounding Jarrow Slake
The remarkable sounds of Jarrow Slake, above the surface and below, at high and low tide.
Sounds of the Earth - September
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Isle of Wight to Abingdon
Homeward
A journey westwards from Scotland's biggest city to home in the Outer Hebrides.
The Dunwich Dynamo
Experience a night-time journey from central London to the Suffolk coast, on a bicycle.
Sounds of the Earth - August
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Scotland to the Cyclades
A Night on Lundy
Cast away to the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel, a haven for seabirds and seals.
Sounds of the Earth - July
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Madrid to Exmoor
Deep Blue to Pale Blue
Tie on to the rope of artist and climber Dan Shipsides to go sea cliff climbing.
The Funfair
Escape to the seaside and enjoy the sounds of a day at the fair.
The Funfair
Escape to the seaside and enjoy the sounds of a day at the fair.
Sounds of the Earth - June
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Tanzania to Sussex.
Sounds of the Earth - May
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Kenya to Scotland.
Sounds of the Earth - April
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Norfolk to Switzerland
Nan Shepherd's River - The Dee
An elemental journey into the heart of the Cairngorms with 'The Living Mountain' in hand.
Sounds of the Earth - March
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds from the Scottish Borders to Bristol
Sounds of the Earth - February
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Australia to Yorkshire.
The Sounds of a Winter Sunday in the Park
A winter Sunday in the park with all its joyful sounds, and some that are sad.
Take Me to Your Happy Place
Winterwatch's Gillian Burke chooses music and sounds that encourage her own wellbeing.
Lighting the Beacon
A sonic journey into signal fires as a warning system and emblem of hope
Sounds of the Earth – December
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds
Soller - We're All Going on an Aural Holiday
Take your ears on a binaural summer holiday through the Mallorcan town of Soller.
Household Gods
Composer Iain Chambers’s celebration of the domestic soundworld
Sounds of the Earth - October
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Scotland to East Sussex
Penguins v Seals - Tristan da Cunha
Wildlife in your ears from the world's most remote island community - Tristan da Cunha.
Sounds of the Earth - September
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - Scotland to Costa Rica
Sounds of the Earth - July
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
The Flying Scotsman
A journey on the Flying Scotsman with privileged access to the driver on the footplate.
The Halyards of Woodbridge
Iain Chambers records musical sounds along the River Deben amongst birdsong and boats.
If you go down to the woods tonight
Huddy places a recording box in a tree and discovers the secrets of a wood at night
Rain On A Hot Tin Roof
An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, it’s time to go slow.
From Dadar to the Stars
An intimate, breath-close binaural portrait of the intoxicating Indian city of Mumbai.
Seals and Selkie Folk
The haunting cries of grey seals in Pembrokeshire and tales of selkie folk
Sounds of the Earth - February
A montage of music and natural sounds including whale song and Tundra swans.
Sounds of the Earth - January
A montage of music and natural sounds including an Antarctic fur seal and her pup.
The Last Oozings - Cider Making in Somerset
All the different sounds as Matthew Bryant turns apples to cider in the slow old way.
Sounds of the Earth - December
Oscillated Turkeys and thermal mud pools.
Sounds of the Earth - November
Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds.
The Sounds of Al-Andalus
An auditory journey across Spain, Portugal and Morocco
Listening to Lalibela
A sound journey to an timeless world in the Ethiopian holy city of Lalibela
Downtown Nashville, Tennessee
A stroll down Broadway accompanied by sounds synonymous with the American South.
Sounds of the Earth - October
Sounds from a Somerset farm, African white rhinos and a Costa Rican rainforest.
The Signal-Man
Recordist Chris Watson follows the sound of bells, to an East Yorkshire railway Gate Box.
Sounds of the Earth - July
Sounds from a Scottish sunrise, Suffolk woodland, Tasmanian lyrebird and Thai gibbons.
Bach Walks: Roseburg to Lübeck
Episode 5/5. In 1705, the 20-year-old JS Bach walked 250 miles to meet his hero.
Into the Eerie
Rob St John explores the idea of eeriness in the English landscape.
Night-time at the zoo
Eavesdropping on animals at the Isle of Wight Zoo, from dusk 'til dawn.
Sounds of the Earth - June
Sounds from Siberia, a Canyon in Israel, a Welsh flock of sheep & a Tanzanian plain.
Bach Walks: Medingen to Bienenbuttel
Episode 4/5. In 1705, the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach set off to meet his hero.
Nightingale Nocturne
Nightingales singing, with musicians responding to them, in the Sussex woods.
Orford Ness - a post-apocalyptic walk
Composer Iain Chambers takes a sound recording field trip around Orford Ness in Suffolk.
Sounds of the Earth - May
Sounds from The Camargue, an oasis in Oman, and rivers from Northumbria & Argentina.
Along the River Severn
Sounds of the River Severn from source to sea, with Petroc Trelawny.
Container Ship Karaoke
Nathaniel Mann joins lonely seafarers on a container ship for some modern sea shanties.
The Water's Music
A musical collaboration between sound artist, radio producer and a burn in Northumberland
The In-Between Land
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson.
Sounds of the Earth - April
Sounds of a Swedish lake, Australian mangroves, Malawian hippos and Northumbrian curlews.
Bach Walks: Oderwald to Wolfenbuttel
Horatio Clare retraces JS Bach's 250-mile journey to visit his hero. Episode 3/5.
Sounds of the Earth
Immerse yourself in the universe of sound.
Three Gardens in Trinidad
A gentle journey through the sounds of Trinidad, with Elisha Efua Bartels
Sounds of the Earth
Norwegian ravens, Galapagos seawaters, bowerbirds and creaking ice floes in Japan.
Sound Walk: Winter Wanderer
Travel writer Horatio Clare takes a walk in the Black Forest, and thinks about wandering
I Have Walked by Sweet Streams
A dawn chorus and poetry from Snowdonia
Sounds of the Earth
Sounds of a Belgian nightingale, a Norfolk wetland and an Indian forest
Into the Forest - Squam Lake, New Hampshire, USA
A montage of sounds from the forests around Squam Lake, New Hampshire during the Fall.
Cattle Blessing on the Burren
Irish cows make their way up to the winter grazing grounds high above Galway Bay
Bach Walks: Schierke to Brocken Summit
Horatio Clare retraces JS Bach's 250-mile journey to visit his hero. Episode 2/5.
Bach walks
Retracing the 20-year-old Bach's 250-mile journey across Germany in search of his hero.
A festive reindeer wonderland
Have yourself a serene little Christmas with the sounds of reindeer and an enchanted wood
Divine love of the monastery
Monks reflect on their experience of divine love in the peace of the monastery.
Monks and meditation
Monks find focus amid the peace and serenity of the monastery.
Living and working in a monastery
Monks meditate on their working lives amid the peace and serenity of the monastery.
Wordless prayer
Monks meditate on the subject of prayer amid the peace and serenity of the monastery.
The silence of the monastery
Monks meditate on the nature of silence, amid the peace and serenity of the monastery.
Midnight at the Oasis
Dawn to Dusk in the Kalahari Desert - a time-lapse recorded by Chris Watson.
The Last Elfdalians
A collage of forest sounds and the endangered Swedish forest language Elfdalian.
Into the Forest – Sherwood Forest
Step into Sherwood Forest at night with tawny owls calling to each other in the trees.
Sounds of the Earth
Nestle for a while into a Humberside reed-bed and the grasslands of the Kalahari.
Armistice Sonic Memorials
The sounds of battlefields across the world today – from the Somme to Afghanistan
Walking Through Time
Meditating on time whilst walking through the largest collection of clocks in England
A walk in the New Forest
Calming birdsong and the crunch of leaves from the New Forest in spring.
Sounds of the Earth
An orchard in the Cotswolds, a Japanese paddy field in summer, and Florida's Everglades.
A moment of calm in Gwydyr Forest
Get surrounded by nature - birdsong, rustling leaves and the stillness of the forest.
Forgotten Sounds
Typewriters, steam engines and foundries - these forgotten sounds take us back in time.
Slow sheep in Southern Spain
Writer Chris Stewart takes us to meet some shepherds in the mountains of Alpujarras.
Nightingales
A magical late night duet between a shakuhachi player and a nightingale
A late night trip across Kabukicho, Tokyo’s entertainment district
Nick Luscombe heads to ‘sleepless town’, known for drinking dens and seedy back streets
A visit to a snowy forest near Oslo
Capturing sounds from the forest, including hibernating tadpoles beneath the snow.
Nick Luscombe’s Japanese journey
A hyper-real sonic journey through Japan's multifaceted soundscapes.
Bach Walks
In 1705, a young musician set out on an epic journey to meet his hero...
Dementia voices
People with dementias and their carers talk movingly about their everyday lives.
Sounds of a mountain climb in the Lake District
The poet Helen Mort and her friend Andrew set off on a climb up Middle Fell Buttress.
An immersive experience of the British countryside
The sounds of a walk along Offa's Dyke, with Horatio Clare.
A journey along the Sacred River
Sounds of the sacred from around the world, introduced by Neil MacGregor.
Life on a shanty boat
A 20-minute watery odyssey - idling down the Tennessee River.