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  1. Nature Is What We See

    A slow radio escape into nature inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

  2. Nick Luscombe's Japan Spring

    Slow Radio in the suburbs of Tokyo. Nick Luscombe explores birdsong, blossom and baseball.

  3. Nan Shepherd's River: The Dee

    An elemental journey into the heart of the Cairngorms.

  4. Take Me to Your Happy Place

    Winterwatch's Gillian Burke with music and natural sounds that help with her wellbeing.

  5. Lighting the Beacon

    A sonic journey into signal fires as a warning system and emblem of hope.

  6. The Last Songs of Gaia

    Sounds of animals and ecosystems under threat.

  7. The Flying Scotsman

    An evocative and immersive journey on the Flying Scotsman from Manchester to Carlisle.

  8. The Halyards of Woodbridge

    Iain Chambers records musical sounds along the river Deben amongst birdsong and boats.

  9. If you go down to the woods tonight

    Hugh Huddy places a recording box in a tree and discovers the secrets of a wood at night.

  10. Rain on a Hot Tin Roof

    Drench yourself in an acoustic downpour.

  11. From Dadar to the Stars

    An intimate, breath-close binaural portrait of the intoxicating Indian city of Mumbai.

  12. Seals and Selkie Folk

    The haunting cries of grey seals in Pembrokeshire and tales of selkie folk.

  14. The Last Oozings - Cider Making in Somerset

    All the different sounds as Matthew Bryant turns apples to cider in the slow old way.

  15. Thames

    A journey along the Thames from Tower Bridge to the North Sea by field recordist Ian Rawes

  16. Downtown Nashville, Tennessee

    A stroll down Broadway accompanied by sounds synonymous with the American South.

  17. Night-time at the Zoo

    Slow Radio: Night-time at the Zoo

  18. Nightingale Nocturne

    Nightingales singing with musicians in the Sussex woods at night.

  19. Orford Ness - a post-apocalyptic walk

    Composer Iain Chambers takes a sound recording field trip around Orford Ness in Suffolk.

  20. The Water's Music, a piece made entirely from the sounds of a Northumbrian burn

    A musical collaboration between sound artist, radio producer and a burn in Northumberland

  21. The Cathedral

    The evocative sounds of Durham Cathedral recorded across a single day.

  22. Three Gardens in Trinidad

    A gentle journey through the sounds of Trinidad with Elisha Efua Bartels.

  23. I Have Walked by Sweet Streams

    A dawn chorus and poetry from Snowdonia

  24. Burren Cattle Blessing

    Bliss out to the sound of a herd of contented cattle being walked to their winter grazing.

  25. Midnight at the Oasis

    Dawn to Dusk in the Kalahari Desert - a timelapse recorded by Chris Watson.

  26. Walking Through Time

    Journeying through tolling, ticking, chiming, striking, whirring corridors of clocks.

  27. Sound of Changes

    A sequence of industrial and domestic sounds from across Europe by composer Iain Chambers

  28. Nightingales

    Musicians recorded in the Sussex woods one night in April play music with nightingales.

  30. Slow Radio: Music, Life and Dementia

    Music binds together the voices of people living with dementias.

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