Slow Radio

Poet Owen Sheers explores the strange sound world of the underground spaces of Wales, from slate caverns to sea caves, from Snowdonia to the Gower peninsula. In a new poem, he contemplates these dark and hidden places integral to Welsh myth, industry and psyche. Written and read by Owen Sheers Sound design by Catherine Robinson Produced by Emma Harding

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. Cornish waves, Welsh cows, a wren in a walnut tree and rain in the Galician mountains, recorded by Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast listeners Adriana Flores, Sean Tobin, Penny Lawrence and Alex Lisle.

The ever-present and changing sound of the wind on Fair Isle.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. Featuring recordings of birdsong from Kelso to Senegal sent in by Radio 3 Breakfast listeners listeners Betsy Barker, Caroline Fiennes, Helen Boyles and Ros Bleach.

Join Honey, a 15-year-old fox-red labrador, as she goes about her day.

The sounds of a small boat on the tidal Thames and the calls on its two-way radio.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. Featuring recordings of spring birdsong in Bath, Leamington Spa, Gloucestershire, and the island of Mauritius, sent in by Radio 3 Breakfast listeners Colette Wilson, Anthea Asprey, Judy Bailey and John Fenner.

Stockholm-based artist Milo Lavén reveals the hidden world within slowed-down sounds.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from the Fens to the Scilly Isles via St Albans and Shaftesbury. Featuring recordings of birds, frogs and horses made by Radio 3 listeners Susie Nicholls, Tom Perrett, David Learner and Stuart Macer.

City life and moments of calm – a sound portrait of Riley Square in Coventry, recorded with artists Georgiou & Tolley.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds, from Kenya to New Zealand via Lancashire and the Cotswolds. Featuring recordings made by Radio3 Breakfast listeners Cathy Tattersfield and Josh Clarke, and BBC Natural History recordists Trevor Gosling and Nigel Tucker.

The sounds of energy generation across the industrial heart of Northumberland.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. From midwinter on the English coast to the floodplains of Central Brazil via an Oxfordshire canal and a Somerset millpond, this month's mix focuses on birds. Includes listener recordings made by Michael Bawtree and Paul Miles, BBC Natural History Unit recordings from Tim Bevan and Paul Reddish, and several made by sound recordist Chris Watson.

Tokyo-based DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe explores the sound of winter in Japan.

The sounds of the cosmos revealed through the sonification of astronomical data.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Caribbean and back again via the rainforests of Queensland and the icy waters off Nova Scotia, Canada. Includes listener recordings made by William Collinson and Julio Davila and BBC Natural History Unit recordings from Trevor Gosling, Mike Potts and Grace Niska Atkins.

There are 107 bell towers in Venice. Wherever you go in the city the passage of time is measured by the echo of bells across rooftops. But the biggest bell of them all – the Marangona in St. Mark's Basilica – only stirs into sound twice a day: at midday and midnight. In this beautiful soundscape Radio 3’s Slow Radio takes you from the chime of Marangona at midday, along lapping canals and whisperi...

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a Loch in the Scottish Highlands to the evergreen forests of Thailand via South Africa and a tiny Gloucestershire village. With field recordings by Hugh Manistree, Grace Niska Atkins, Christopher Hammond and Dave Reid.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a wolf sanctuary in Portugal to a watery Danish peninsula. Plus, sounds from grazing time at Lake Naivasha, Kenya and evening sunlight at the South Downs National Park with rooks, pigeons and a nightingale.

Jarrow Slake is an expanse of tidal mudflats at the mouth of the Tyne with fascinating social and natural histories. The Venerable Bede lived and worked here; timber from Scandinavia was brought to mature in its ponds. In 1972 the Port of Tyne authority filled these in to allow factory development. Now cars built at Sunderland are stored at Jarrow Slake prior to export. Part is a post-industrial s...

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the ruins of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight to Cerne Abbas in Dorset, via a 15th Century church in Kings Norton and a leafy park in Oxfordshire. With field recordings by Mary Edwards and Scott Armbruster, John Mears, Robin Mills and Pete Kirkman.

After a break of over a year owing to Covid 19 Restrictions, Calum and Claire MacAulay travel back to their native Skye and North Uist for a long awaited reunion with family.

Experience a night-time journey from central London to the Suffolk coast, on a bicycle.

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Scottish border, to a remote island in the Cyclades, via Northumbrian moorlands and the Ribble Valley. With field recordings by Chris Watson, Heather Wright and Tom and Jan Perrett.

An audio voyage to the remote island of Lundy, a haven for marine wildlife. 12 miles off the coast of North Devon, Lundy has long been a place of refuge. Once ruled by Barbary pirates and political plotters, the island's stormy history has blown over, leaving a peaceful haven, awash with wildlife, and home to just 20 people. Stepping ashore from the ferry, MS Oldenburg, we'll be castaways for the...