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Radio 3,28 Jun 2026,60 mins

By moonlight

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Elizabeth Alker offers up a playlist of ambient and experimental sounds inspired by the moon, including a duet from Benjamin Burke and Bear Glass recorded under the night sky in the open desert outside Joshua Tree, California. Jon Hopkins and Ólafur Arnalds, meanwhile, combine forces in a piece inspired by the writings of Erica Bernhard, creative director at NASA; and South Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha makes use of traditional flutes, bells and glockenspiel to conjure an atmosphere of moonlit dreaming. Produced by Geoff Bird A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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    Moon-Spotting
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  3. 2.
    Many Moons
    Many Moons
    Eve Maret
  4. 3.
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    Safe & Sound
    Shape Of The Moon