Slow Radio
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.
Podcasts
Sounds of the Earth - husky howls and oystercatchers
Published: Jan. 9, 2024, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds
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Berlin's Hidden Soundscape
Published: Nov. 5, 2023, 11:30 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - from the Himalayas to Dehli
Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 1:04 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds
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Sounds of an ascent on foot to the summit of the imposing North Grigna mountain in Italy.
Published: Sept. 24, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 46 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - Rooks, Bats and Toads
Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 2 seconds
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The Hum of the Hive
Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 12:03 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 44 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - The BBC Wild Isles mix
Published: Aug. 11, 2023, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - the Blackbird, the Nightingale and the new-born Lamb
Published: May 16, 2023, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 1 second
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The sounds of the BBCs Wild Isles
Published: April 13, 2023, 7:44 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - Brazilian Rainforest and Banjo Frogs
Published: March 29, 2023, 7:09 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 47 seconds
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Inside the Temple
Published: March 29, 2023, 5:43 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - Seychelles and Barbados
Published: March 6, 2023, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds
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The Glacier in Retreat
Published: Feb. 26, 2023, 11:30 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds
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A Sunday walk through Harlem
Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - Scottish Highlands, Faroe Islands
Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 8:39 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 19 seconds
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A Journey across the Steppes
Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - Sanderlings on Shetland, Birds in Buenos Aires
Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 9:19 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 12 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - water falling, curlews calling
Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - City sparrows, wallowing elephants
Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 9:56 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - Cows, Rain and a Wren
Published: Oct. 4, 2022, 1:16 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds
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A Day in the Life of Honey the Dog
Published: July 3, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 36 seconds
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Very High Frequency Between Gravesend and Greenhithe
Published: May 29, 2022, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds
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Slow Motion Sounds
Published: April 24, 2022, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds
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Coventry's Riley Square
Published: March 27, 2022, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds
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Northumberland's Electric Coast
Published: Feb. 25, 2022, 3:41 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 29 seconds
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Nick Luscombe's Japan Winter
Published: Jan. 6, 2022, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 35 seconds
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A Sonic Journey across the Universe
Published: Jan. 2, 2022, 11:30 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 29 seconds
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Venice Between the Bells
Published: Dec. 20, 2021, midnightDuration: 30 minutes 1 second
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The Dunwich Dynamo
Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 12:02 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 11 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - August
Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 20 seconds
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A Night on Lundy
Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 47 seconds
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Nan Shepherd's River - The Dee
Published: April 25, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - March
Published: March 22, 2021, 12:07 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 32 seconds
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Take Me to Your Happy Place
Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 11:31 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 8 seconds
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Lighting the Beacon
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, midnightDuration: 29 minutes 34 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - September
Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 7:47 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds
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The Flying Scotsman
Published: May 31, 2020, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 30 seconds
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The Halyards of Woodbridge
Published: May 3, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 5 seconds
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If you go down to the woods tonight
Published: March 29, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds
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Rain On A Hot Tin Roof
Published: March 22, 2020, 12:32 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
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From Dadar to the Stars
Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 39 seconds
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Seals and Selkie Folk
Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - February
Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 12:59 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - January
Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 1:32 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds
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The Last Oozings - Cider Making in Somerset
Published: Dec. 22, 2019, 5:13 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - December
Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 5:51 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 43 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - November
Published: Nov. 10, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds
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The Sounds of Al-Andalus
Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 48 seconds
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Listening to Lalibela
Published: Nov. 3, 2019, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 48 seconds
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Downtown Nashville, Tennessee
Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 12:01 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes
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Sounds of the Earth - October
Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 10 seconds
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The Signal-Man
Published: Oct. 13, 2019, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 29 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - July
Published: July 25, 2019, 12:41 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds
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Bach Walks: Roseburg to Lubeck
Published: July 18, 2019, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes
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Night-time at the zoo
Published: July 5, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - June
Published: June 20, 2019, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 55 seconds
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Bach Walks: Medingen to Bienenbuttel
Published: June 20, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 52 seconds
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Nightingale Nocturne
Published: June 11, 2019, 10:27 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds
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Orford Ness - a post-apocalyptic walk
Published: June 5, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 49 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - May
Published: May 31, 2019, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds
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Along the River Severn
Published: May 23, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds
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Container Ship Karaoke
Published: May 23, 2019, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
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The Water's Music
Published: May 21, 2019, 2:28 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 49 seconds
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The In-Between Land
Published: May 10, 2019, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth - April
Published: April 25, 2019, 3:02 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 37 seconds
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Bach Walks: Oderwald to Wolfenbuttel
Published: April 23, 2019, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 5 seconds
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Three Gardens in Trinidad
Published: March 8, 2019, midnightDuration: 32 minutes
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Sound Walk: Winter Wanderer
Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds
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I Have Walked by Sweet Streams
Published: Feb. 8, 2019, midnightDuration: 31 minutes 26 seconds
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Into the Forest - Squam Lake, New Hampshire, USA
Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 10:47 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes
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Cattle Blessing on the Burren
Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 4:31 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds
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Bach Walks: Schierke to Brocken Summit
Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds
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A festive reindeer wonderland
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 23 seconds
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Divine love of the monastery
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 9:20 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds
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Monks and meditation
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 9:15 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 2 seconds
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Living and working in a monastery
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 9:10 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds
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Wordless prayer
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 9:05 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds
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The silence of the monastery
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds
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Midnight at the Oasis
Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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The Last Elfdalians
Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds
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Into the Forest Sherwood Forest
Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds
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Armistice Sonic Memorials
Published: Nov. 10, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 49 seconds
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Walking Through Time
Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 40 seconds
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A walk in the New Forest
Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds
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Sounds of the Earth
Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds
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A moment of calm in Gwydyr Forest
Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds
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Forgotten Sounds
Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 49 seconds
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Slow sheep in Southern Spain
Published: July 1, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds
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A late night trip across Kabukicho, Tokyos entertainment district
Published: May 20, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 37 seconds
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A visit to a snowy forest near Oslo
Published: May 13, 2018, 4 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds
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Nick Luscombes Japanese journey
Published: May 6, 2018, 5:05 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 40 seconds
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Sounds of a mountain climb in the Lake District
Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 11:17 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 13 seconds
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An immersive experience of the British countryside
Published: Dec. 3, 2017, 7:16 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 22 seconds
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A journey along the Sacred River
Published: Nov. 26, 2017, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 49 seconds
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Life on a shanty boat
Published: Nov. 19, 2017, 5:21 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds
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