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Nod off with this relaxing soundtrack

The Shipping Forecast with dream-inducing music from BBC Introducing to help you sleep.

Produced by Gabriel Francis and Megan Brady
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds

To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play The Sleeping Forecast”

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1 hour

Last on

Tue 20 May 2025 23:30
BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Evelyn Bates

    It Was Perfect (Until It Wasn't)

  • Martin Andrew Smith

    The Wonders of Psalm 13

  • Nickie Hart

    Sweet Dreaming

  • Lawrence Dauncey

    Searching

  • Steven Poole

    Everything In Time

  • Byebyefish

    First Breaths

  • Joe Dworniak

    It's Time to Go

    • Riverfish Records.

  • Julia Thomsen & Kirsten Agresta Copely

    Eternal Love

    • Deli Music.

  • Ben McElroy

    The Silence Has Spoken

    • The Slow Music Movement.

  • Helena Silva

    Tropico

  • Robert Sword

    Among Summer Hills

    • Lost Forest Records.

  • Pan Liang

    Ebb of Time

  • Roger Evernden

    Summer

  • Alexander Painter

    Joan That Is a Lover of Sleeping Men

    • Anti-Ghost Moon Ray.

  • Paul Taylor

    The Road to Avalon - Eventide

  • Blair Coron

    Elegy

  • James O'Connell

    Ellipsis

  • Emma Butterworth

    Leaving With Delirium

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet In E-Flat Major, Op. 20: II. Adagio Cantabile

    Ensemble: Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.
    • Mediaphon.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 13 Jan 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sat 25 Jan 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Thu 6 Feb 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Fri 25 Apr 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Tue 20 May 2025 23:30
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind

Podcast

  • The Sleeping Forecast

    A unique journey to dreamland, mixing instrumental music and Radio 4's Shipping Forecast.