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.
Coinciding with World Sleep Day 2026, 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
Broadcasts
- Sun 11 Jan 202623:30BBC Radio 3 Unwind
- Thu 12 Mar 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.
