Slow Radio Podcast
An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, immerse yourself: it’s time to go slow.
Listen to the sounds of birds, mountain climbing, monks chatting as you go about your day. A lo-fi celebration of pure sound.
Episodes to download
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Sounds of the Earth - June
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Sounds from Siberia, a Canyon in Israel, a Welsh flock of sheep & a Tanzanian plain.
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Bach Walks: Medingen to Bienenbuttel
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Episode 4/5. In 1705, the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach set off to meet his hero.
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Nightingale Nocturne
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Nightingales singing, with musicians responding to them, in the Sussex woods.
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Orford Ness - a post-apocalyptic walk
Wed 5 Jun 2019
Composer Iain Chambers takes a sound recording field trip around Orford Ness in Suffolk.
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Sounds of the Earth - May
Fri 31 May 2019
Sounds from The Camargue, an oasis in Oman, and rivers from Northumbria & Argentina.
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Along the River Severn
Thu 23 May 2019
Sounds of the River Severn from source to sea, with Petroc Trelawny.
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The Water's Music
Tue 21 May 2019
A musical collaboration between sound artist, radio producer and a burn in Northumberland
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The In-Between Land
Fri 10 May 2019
The magical North Pennines landscape of deaf shepherd-poet Josephine Dickinson.
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Container Ship Karaoke
Thu 2 May 2019
Nathaniel Mann joins lonely seafarers on a container ship for some modern sea shanties.
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Sounds of the Earth - April
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Sounds of a Swedish lake, Australian mangroves, Malawian hippos and Northumbrian curlews.
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Bach Walks: Oderwald to Wolfenbuttel
Tue 23 Apr 2019
Horatio Clare retraces JS Bach's 250-mile journey to visit his hero. Episode 3/5.
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Three Gardens in Trinidad
Fri 8 Mar 2019
A gentle journey through the sounds of Trinidad, with Elisha Efua Bartels
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Sounds of the Earth
Mon 25 Feb 2019
Norwegian ravens, Galapagos seawaters, bowerbirds and creaking ice floes in Japan.
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Sound Walk: Winter Wanderer
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Travel writer Horatio Clare takes a walk in the Black Forest, and thinks about wandering
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Sounds of the Earth
Tue 5 Feb 2019
Sounds of a Belgian nightingale, a Norfolk wetland and an Indian forest
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Into the Forest - Squam Lake, New Hampshire, USA
Fri 25 Jan 2019
A montage of sounds from the forests around Squam Lake, New Hampshire during the Fall.
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Cattle Blessing on the Burren
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Irish cows make their way up to the winter grazing grounds high above Galway Bay
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Bach Walks: Schierke to Brocken Summit
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Horatio Clare retraces JS Bach's 250-mile journey to visit his hero. Episode 2/5.
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Bach walks
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Retracing the 20-year-old Bach's 250-mile journey across Germany in search of his hero.
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A festive reindeer wonderland
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Have yourself a serene little Christmas with the sounds of reindeer and an enchanted wood
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Divine love of the monastery
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Monks reflect on their experience of divine love in the peace of the monastery.
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Living and working in a monastery
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Monks meditate on their working lives amid the peace and serenity of the monastery.
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Wordless prayer
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Monks meditate on the subject of prayer amid the peace and serenity of the monastery.
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The silence of the monastery
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Monks meditate on the nature of silence, amid the peace and serenity of the monastery.
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Midnight at the Oasis
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Dawn to Dusk in the Kalahari Desert - a time-lapse recorded by Chris Watson.
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The Last Elfdalians
Thu 29 Nov 2018
A collage of forest sounds and the endangered Swedish forest language Elfdalian.
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Into the Forest – Sherwood Forest
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Step into Sherwood Forest at night with tawny owls calling to each other in the trees.
Sounds of the Earth
Listen to the natural world in its many guises.
