Safe passage to a restful night
Enjoy a restful sleep with Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast and calming classical music.
Navigate your way to a restful sleep with help from this relaxing classical and ambient mix of music from BBC Introducing artists; paired with excerpts from Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast and sounds of gentle forest streams and sleepy farmsteads.
Produced by Alex Yates
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 Unwind
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'ask BBC Sounds to play The Sleeping Forecast'.
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Richard Laurence
Inscape
- Inscape.
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Andrew McNeight
Fallen Leaves
- Fallen Leaves.
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Joe Sinha Semple
The Lighthouse
- The Lighthouse.
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Tony McGreal
Sleepy Sunday
- Sleepy Sunday.
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Adrian Lord
Beautiful Girl
- Beautiful Girl.
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Mahdi Salehi
The Swan
- The Swan.
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Geo Chandler
Gennaio
- Gennaio.
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Matt Petherbridge
October
- October.
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Oliver C. Robinson
Waves
- Waves.
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Sophie Bickerdike
Manifest Miracles
- Manifest Miracles.
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Storms Over Oceans
Hidden World
- Hidden World.
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Ana Schurmann
Horus Audenis
- Horus Audenis.
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Janine Hutton
Thank you
- Thank you.
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Gabriele Baldocci
Faded Gardens
- Faded Gardens.
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Eleri Morgan
Begin again
- Begin again.
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Ryoka Hagiwara
Interlude
- Interlude.
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Rachel Leah
My Love is like a Red Red Rose
- My Love is like a Red Red Rose.
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Gareth Davies
hopeful
- hopeful.
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Helen Keeling-Marston
A Winter Lullaby
- A Winter Lullaby.
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Davide Fasiello
Lumen
- Lumen.
Broadcast
- Last Monday23:30BBC 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.
