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A rest inducing soundtrack to help you drift off
Fall into a deep sleep with gentle compositions from BBC Introducing, paired with Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast.
Produced by Cat Gough
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 23 Oct 202523:30
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
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Music Played
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Eleri Morgan
Free as a bird
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Sarah Baker
Floating Through Clouds
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Jim Perkins
Prelude in C Minor
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Iain James Veitch
Culloden Moor
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Hayley Morton
Castles in the Sky
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Alan William Baker
Ruedee And I
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Geoff Robb
The Cherry from The Music of Tree
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Joe Hume
Into The Sunset
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Ben Crosland
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
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Zeynep Sophia
Dreams of Violet
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Lewis Bolland
Manifest
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Luke Gajdus
Dawn Chorus
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Lauren Finch
in orbit
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Tomas Wilhelm
Vicissitudes
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Harriet Bates
A Song for Abi
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Ayse Deniz
Velvet Piano
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Stuart MacRae
My garden in June
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Jason Williams
Liberosis
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Dylan John Sparkes
Sacred
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Patrick Yeboah
Humble Beginnings
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Monica Robin
Prelude
Broadcasts
- Wed 19 Feb 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 9 Mar 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Fri 20 Jun 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Sun 17 Aug 202523:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Thu 23 Oct 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.


