Six and a half hours of soothing sounds to ease your mind
A calming journey pairing The Shipping Forecast with gentle music and field recordings from BBC Introducing.
Drift into an oasis of calm with this extended 6.5-hour musical journey, weaving together extracts from The Shipping Forecast with gentle music curated from BBC Introducing and immersive field recordings. A spacious, slow-moving soundscape designed to soothe, settle and accompany long stretches of listening.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds.
To listen on most smart speakers just 'ask BBC Sounds to play The Sleeping Forecast'.
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Christopher Hawkins
Sleeping Flowers
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Andrew Lodge
Dark Sky Night
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Simon Lowy
Catching Moonbeams
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Barry Hudson‐Taylor
All In A Day
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Richard Laurence
You'll Never Know
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Christof R Davis
Watching The Rain
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John C. Buttigieg
Candlelight
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Steve Luck
Moonbow
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Tomas Wilhelm
Where The Heart Is
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CrusaderBeach
Little Wonders
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Matt Stewart-Evans
First Steps
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Elliott Jack Sansom
Dance Of The Butterfly
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Cathy Hattam
To The Birds
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Darren Lennon
Pink Water
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Emma McPhilemy & Jenni Watson
Salt Lines
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Dan Chapman
Mindful
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Louise Spencer
Dreamcatcher
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Maddy Chassar-Hesketh
The Little Stretch of Purest Sky
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Simon McCorry
Ash
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Greg Kozakiewicz
Altitude
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Chris Tolley
Some Things I Wish I Could Tell You
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Ben Crosland
The Stream
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Matt Stewart-Evans
Ethereal
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Richard Brincklow
Ben's Heart Sings
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Tomas Wilhelm
Time Will Tell
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Josch Hügel
Nocturne
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Simon Rackham
Lullaby for Nina
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Mark W. Griffiths
From The Heart
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Ollie Jones
Distance
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Miran
Wanderer
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Richard Laurence
Written In Her Eyes
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Kerim Kalyon
Sonder
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Matt Javanshir
Love Loss
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Jane Barnes
Cornfields in Summer
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Christof R Davis
Outside The Wind Blows...
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A Slower Tempo
Elevation
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Stumbleine
Spirits at the door
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Peter Flint
Stumble Without Falling
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Louise Spencer
Through The Other Side
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Deirdra Tormey
Stars
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Adolfo Viguera
Shades
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David Perkins
Screened From the Public Gaze
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Claire Lawton
Nana's Lullaby
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Eleri Morgan
Sleep Will Come
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Charlie Armour
Piano No.15
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Lou Lyne and the Blue Almond Project
That One Moment
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Drew Five
The River: Boats In The Moonlight
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Mark A Peters
A Sad Loss
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Sam Mavor
Poppies
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Neil Foster
Moonrise
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Vegso
Pointe
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S. Salter
So
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Noah Radley
Crying in the Airport / Brothers Almanac
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Andrew Land
A Warning
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Helen Keeling-Marston
Clubs
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Dylan John Sparkes
Leaping Through Darkness
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Sergio Roberto
Faded Dreams
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Betterlate
Murmuration
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Samuel Pradalie
Modern Workplace Rituals
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Helen Keeling-Marston
The Mariner's Last Waltz
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Robert Sword
Goldmund Sets Out
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Tomas Wilhelm
The Small Hours
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Simeon Walker
Ballade No. 1
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leafcuts
liminal millenial
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Christopher Wyte
Rye Harbour
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Ben Crosland
Returning
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Annabel Bennett
Deception
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Thomas James White
Cradlesong
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Roger Evernden
Serenity
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Angeline Bell
First Light
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Alan Baker
1953 November Seventeenth
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Rhys John Stubbs
Paldies Par Kompaniju
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mac dunlop
Revolutionary Earth (excerpt)
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Arrowsmith
for her (rec 77)
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Lewis Bolland
Breathe
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Matt Javanshir
feel free to sleep
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Martin Andrew Smith
So panteth my soul
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max says relax
ice flow #1 vol.1
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Happy Cat Jay
State I of IV - Approaching Storm
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Greg Ryan
Existence
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Dylan John Sparkes
Phoenix
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Nay Shalom
Reverie
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Iain James Veitch
Fragile Prelude
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Laura Christie Wall
Momentary
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Vik Nelson
Apricot Rhythm
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Iain James Veitch
Spinning Prelude
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Rhodri Llewellyn John
Indelible
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JLH
Ameliesque
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Daniel Meskill
Whistling through the long grass
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Ellis Fox
The Evening Redness in the West: The Kid
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David Grubb
The Space in Between
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Richard P John
ReWork VIII - Another Day
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David Cooper Orton
Gathered All Around
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James Jones
A New Year Carol
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Charlotte Church
The Cuckoo
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Owain Gwilym
Cycles
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Joe Hume
Contemplation
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Simon Rackham
Ace Looks a Diamond (For Dad)
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Christof R Davis
A New Year Wish
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Rob Colley
In The Clouds
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Lise Vandersmissen
Oh! Quand Je Dors S 282
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Lauren Scott
For Mattia
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Rhys John Stubbs
Majas
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Matt Petherbridge
In Flux
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Dan Chapman
Through Your Eyes
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Emma Jackson
Migrating Swallows
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James Hawken
Cleansing Water
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Nadia Ismail
Bisous (Orchestral Version)
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BOHN
Sunken
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Archi Enness
Spring Thaw
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Joe Sinha Semple
The Atlas Mountains
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Sunny Hunny
come hold the baby (sometimes it rains indoors)
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Plnk Plnk
Ghataa
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Hayley Morton
Out Of The Blue
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Evelyn Bates
It Was Perfect (Until It Wasn't)
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Martin Andrew Smith
The Wonders of Psalm 13
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Nickie Hart
Sweet Dreaming
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Lawrence Dauncey
Searching
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Steven Poole
Everything In Time
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Byebyefish
First Breaths
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Joe Dworniak
It's Time to Go
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Julia Thomsen & Kirsten Agresta Copely
Eternal Love
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Ben McElroy
The Silence Has Spoken
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- Sun 11 Jan 202623:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
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The Sleeping Forecast
A unique journey to dreamland, mixing instrumental music and Radio 4's Shipping Forecast.
