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.