Soothing music for a calm night’s rest
Relax into a peaceful sleep with gentle compositions featured on BBC Introducing, accompanied by the comforting cadence of The Shipping Forecast from Radio 4.
Relax into a peaceful sleep with gentle compositions featured on BBC Introducing, accompanied by the comforting cadence of The Shipping Forecast from Radio 4.
Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play The Sleeping Forecast”
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Music Played
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Juliette Lemoine
Twilight in a City Park
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Guy Jackson
Gravity Girl
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Ben Crosland
Stargazer
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Helen Keeling-Marston
The Star
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Jonathan Harrington
A Winter's Night
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Francesco Siano
Timeless World
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Lewis Bolland
The Forest
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Charles Jamies Finnie
Allemande, Cello Suite 1
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Matt Appleby
Pathways
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Helena Ricci
Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra harp
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Alisa Marie
Searching for Lambs
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Mark W. Griffiths
Apricity
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Christopher White
At the Moment There is Nothing
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Alexander Chapman Campbell
Come Gentle Night
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Jenni Pinnock
Cassiopea
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Lawrence Dauncey
Leaving
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Angeline Bell
Footsteps in the Snow
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Tomas Wilhelm
In Waiting
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Lois Lelland
Selma's Last Song
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Blair Coron
Birdsong On Canna, Midsummer 1951, 4.15am
Broadcasts
- Wed 5 Feb 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 23 Feb 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Fri 30 May 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Tue 24 Jun 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Wed 20 Aug 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 26 Oct 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Wednesday23:30BBC 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.


