The Halyards of Woodbridge

In 2017, audio producer Phil Smith travelled to Ukraine to attend his friend's wedding. There, somewhere between the cities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Odessa, he fell in love with the soundworld of the sleeper train: its steady hypnotic rhythms, the melody of hurtling through t ... Show More

Relax with a mix of music and natural sounds, recorded by Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast listeners. Three dawn choruses from across the UK, starring woodland, garden and sea birds, follow on from the very different dusk chorus from the remote Greeenland town of Ilulissat, which feature ... Show More

Time unravels in this hypnotic audio journey...In this edition of Slow Radio, we tumble inside the delicate mechanism of the clock - our attempt to contain and mark the steady rush of time itself. Musical and rhythmic, this surreal audio composition moves between the meditative b ... Show More

Robert Scovill is a front of hall engineer who has worked with everybody from Rush and Def Leppard to Tom Petty and Kenny Chesney. He did the sound for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He's the go-to guy. Listen and you'll hear not only how he got from there to ... Show More

Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Ian McMillan, Christina Lamb and Jenny Lecoat for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler and Trombone Shorty. 

When wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore put on his headphones to capture the sound of a woodlark his recording revealed some unusual behaviour that was snapped up by the Springwatch TV team.Producer: Tom Bonnett Photograph: Ian Redman. 

Professor Adrian Poole chairs a debate from the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on the origin of ideas, with writers Lisa Appignanesi and Andrew Robinson, and academics Dame Gillian Beer and Professor Rosamond McKitterick 

The two violinists of the Tippett Quartet – John Mills and Jeremy Issacs – tell Editor Martin Cullingford about the group's new recording of the three string quartets of Erich Korngold, released on the Naxos label. 

The Icelandic composer is joined by two "ghost" pianists, making mysterious and memorable music at the Tiny Desk. 

Robert Wyatt has been recognised as a prog-rock drummer, jazz composer, avant-garde cornet player, artist and activist in a wheelchair. But, above all else, he has been known by one of the most instantly recognisable and distinctive voices of the last fifty years.Forever associat ... Show More

The Canadian singer-songwriter gives a deep, soulful performance against a sometimes moody backdrop of bass saxophone and bowed guitars. 

The complete piano trios of Dvořák is the topic this week, as Editor Martin Cullingford catches up with pianist Boris Giltburg, violinist Veronika Jarůšková and the cellist Petre Jarůšek, who have just recorded them for Supraphon.  

Eigentlich wurde es ja mal fürs Orchester erfunden, das Saxophon. Klanglich sollte es zwischen der schneidenden Oboe und der wärmenden Klarinette liegen. Aber es hat dann doch lieber eine rasante Solokarriere hingelegt, vor allem im Jazz. Es kann aber auch richtig klassische Kamm ... Show More