Sam Sweeney at Swift's Hill

The wonderful English fiddle player Sam Sweeney has been a key member of Bellowhead, Leveret, Eliza Carthy’s Wayward Band and many other collaborations. He’s also made two acclaimed solo albums. He takes us up to the top of Swift’s Hill, where he pla...

Sounds of the Earth – May

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a tiny Scottish Hamlet to the coastal paths of Devon, via Antwerp and Kenya.With field recordings by Chris Watson, Matthew Rose, Callum and Kate in Southwest Ross-shire and Jane and Tim from Plymp...

Jim Ghedi (and Friends) in Crookes and the Moss Valley

A finger style guitarist with a uniquely impassioned vocal style, Jim Ghedi was born and brought up in the Crookes area of Sheffield. He takes Matthew Bannister to his Nan and Grandad’s terraced house where he heard a lot of Irish music as a child. Jim r...

Sounds of the Earth – April

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from Snettisham in Norfolk to West Sussex, via church bells and cowbells of Sussex and Alpine villages.With field recordings by Chris Watson, Jan Henslow, Richard Reich, Tim Lomas, Canon Daniel Inman a...

Nan Shepherd's River – The Dee

An elemental journey into the heart of the Cairngorms with 'The Living Mountain' in hand.

Germa Adan in the Sandwell Valley

The singer, fiddle, guitar and ukulele player Germa Adan was born in Haiti, grew up in Florida and now lives in the UK. She says the RSPB reserve in the Sandwell Valley has been her place of calm during the lockdowns – where she goes to contemplate and r...

Sounds of the Earth – March

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from near St Boswells in the Scottish Borders to Bristol via Costa Rica, Surrey and Manchester.With field recordings by Gill French, Chris Watson, Eddie Breeveld, Alan Ward and Tom Dowling.

Cosmo Sheldrake in Boulsbury Wood

The multi talented musician, producer and lover of the natural world Cosmo Sheldrake takes Matthew Bannister for a walk in the wood near his home in Hampshire. As well as creating electronic music from the song of endangered bird species and the sounds of ...

Sounds of the Earth – February

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the eucalyptus forests of South Australia to the North Yorkshire Moors, via a Surrey garden at sunrise and an East London Park during lockdown.With field recordings by Chris Watson, Susan Toogood,...

The Sounds of a Winter Sunday in the Park

This Slow Radio feature takes us on a leisurely stroll round the park. Parks are always important but during the lockdowns they've become vital to people stuck in cities and towns. Children can still play in the park; grown-ups can still walk, run and even...

Festival of LOVE: The Original Songs

23 amazing folk acts each performing an original love song for the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day 2021, featuring Heidi Talbot: Easter Snow; Seth Lakeman: The White Hare; Lady Nade: Sweet Honey Bee; Kris Drever: When We Roll In The Morn...

Festival of LOVE: The Traditional Songs

23 amazing folk acts each performing a traditional love song for the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day 2021, featuring Nancy Kerr and James Fagan: The Streams of Lovely Nancy: Heidi Talbot: The Blackest Crow; Seth Lakeman: Portrait of My W...

Festival of LOVE: The Covers

23 amazing folk acts each performing a cover version of a love song for the Folk on Foot Festival of LOVE on Valentine’s Day 2021, featuring Heidi Talbot: I Love You/Tom Waits and Allelujah/First of a Million Kisses/Fairground Attraction;  Seth Lakeman:...

Take Me to Your Happy Place

Winterwatch's Gillian Burke chooses music and natural sounds that encourage her own personal wellbeing, including lapping waves, doves and crickets from her childhood in Kenya.

The Rheingans Sisters in Grindleford

Come with us to the back garden of a house in the Peak District village of Grindleford. There, in a magical atmospheric workshop with fiddles, banjos and drying gourds hanging from the ceiling, we find the Rheingans Sisters and their Dad Helmut, who makes ...

Mindful Mix 01 from Calming Times

In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to take time out from the day and be mindful of our place in nature. So we've made Calming Times - a new series of scenic videos and mindful podcasts to help us switch off from the human world and re...

Lighting the Beacon

A slow radio journey into illumination, drawing inspiration from light beacons and signal fires. Used across the centuries as alert systems and warnings of invasion, but also for celebrations and as emblems of hope, this programme lights up the darkness, c...

Richard Thompson in Muswell Hill (and other parts of London)

The legendary guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson takes Matthew Bannister for a walk around the areas of London where he grew up, began playing the guitar, formed Fairport Convention (inventing English folk rock)  and joined the vibrant music scene ...

Sounds of the Earth – December

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the banks of the River Wye to Kenton, near Newcastle, via the Bristol Downs and Manningtree. With field recordings by Karen Hall, Tim Dowling, Stefan Taylor and Chris Watson.

S2 Ep38: The Best of the Walks Around Britain podcast – the Pennine Way

Andrew White talks to walker Rose Hakin and writer Damian Hall about their experiences of walking the Pennine Way, and adventurer Paul Rose chats to Andrew about his BBC TV series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Pennine Way. The Walks Around Brita...