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Fall asleep serenaded by strings
Peacefully drift off with serene strings from BBC Introducing and the Shipping Forecast.
Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play The Sleeping Forecast”
Last on
Thu 4 Dec 202523:30
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Music Played
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Jean-Miles Carter
Rain Flower
Performer: Sarah Brandwood-Spencer. Performer: Simon Turner. Performer: Pete Whitfield.![]()
Juliette Lemoine
Twilight in a City Park
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Andrew Sparrow
Movement of Souls
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Antonija Pacek
Awakening (orchestral)
- Yellow Rose Records.
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Blair Coron
Song For Lismore
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Jim Perkins
A Distant Sun
- Bigo and Twigetti.
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Nigel Crouch
Glisten For Orchestra And Piano
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Kerri Powles
In Flanders Fields
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Alan Baker
Lullaby No.1
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Joe Sinha Semple
Moonlight
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Fabrizio Paterlini
Be in the Moment
- Memory Recordings.
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Tom Smith
Limen
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Alisa Marie
Woods of Wonder
- Rivendell Records.
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Stelios Kyriakidis
Copenhagen
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Howie Hill
Greetings
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Simon McCorry / anthéne
the meadow
- Oscarson.
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Applefish
Dreamscape
- Valley View Records.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Septet In E-Flat Major, Op. 20: II. Adagio Cantabile
Ensemble: Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.- Mediaphon.
Broadcasts
- Wed 15 Jan 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 2 Feb 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Wed 30 Apr 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 18 May 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Thu 7 Aug 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Tue 7 Oct 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Thu 4 Dec 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Podcast
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The Sleeping Forecast
A unique journey to dreamland, mixing instrumental music and Radio 4's Shipping Forecast.
