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Nod off with gentle classical music

Get cosy with the sleep-inducing sounds of the Shipping Forecast, paired with classical music from BBC Introducing and some gentle field recordings of rain.

A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds
Produced by Cat Gough

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1 hour

Last on

Thu 15 May 2025 23:30
BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Helen Keeling-Marston

    Weightless

  • Benjamin William Morales Frost

    Forest Bathing

    • LMN Records.

  • Eleri Morgan

    Gallop

  • Thomas Trueman

    Nimbus Clouds

    • Pretty Decent Music.

  • Roan Kearsey-Lawson

    Sailor's Wake

    • 144Records.

  • Lewis Bolland

    Patrizia

  • Joe Sinha Semple

    Light in the Forest

  • Sarah Baker

    Sunlight On Water

  • Ros Gilman

    Nostalgia

    • Guiro Music Ltd.

  • Simon Rackham

    Ditty

  • Arın Aykut

    Flashing Memories

  • Wilfred Kimber

    Heathered

  • Kerry Barnes

    Lamentoso

    • Kerry Barnes.

  • Zeynep Sophia

    Violet Fades

  • Fiona Rutherford

    Moment for Scottish Harp and Double Bass

  • Simon Lowy

    Cyprus

    • Simon Lowy Music.

  • Benjamin Cook

    Lost.

  • Joe Hume

    Aria

Broadcasts

  • Fri 8 Nov 2024 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Tue 3 Dec 2024 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Mon 21 Apr 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sat 3 May 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Thu 15 May 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

Podcast

  • The Sleeping Forecast

    A unique journey to dreamland, mixing instrumental music and Radio 4's Shipping Forecast.