Radio Lento podcast

295 Low tide on the causeway - part II (sleep safe with occasional herring gulls and oyster catchers)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A soundscene, of an island. Asleep. Between the tides. About this time last year we visited Burgh Island in Devon on the south west coast of England. ...

294 Dawn in Shelve Wood Shropshire with cuckoo

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The moment we entered Shelve Wood we knew it was a perfect place to record. Shropshire is sparsely populated. There's only one B road in the Shelve Wo...

293 Pools of Rye Harbour (sleep safe)

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Lento box records alone, tied to a tree, behind thickets of gorse. The night hours pass. The microphones capture the panoramic peace of this wild ...

292 Moorland trees in December gales - Derbyshire (sleep safe after owls at start)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Exposed moorland trees create a strong natural source of undulating white noise when shouldering the brunt of a winter gale. The sounds they produce a...

291 High tide turning - the Crouch Estuary in Essex (sleep safe)

01 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The waves settle into wavelets. The wavelets settle to calm. Then it's just the pure sound of estuary emptiness, at night. Following on from episode 2...

290 Night rain in the Pyrenees (sleep safe)

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We love the ambience of Sant Llorence de la Muga, a small village high in the Pyrenees. It's a beautifully peaceful place but we know the sound of the...

289 Dawn birds of rural Shropshire

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Radio Lento and a new year of captured quiet from natural places. It's so good you are here. To open 2026 we're heading back to rural ...

288 Tidal estuary at night (sleep safe)

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tied to a railing, the Lento box records alone. It's about two in the morning along the river bank east of Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. Wind is blowing...

287 Dusk on Boggle Hole beach - North Yorkshire coast

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The still luminous sky above the sheer rock cliffs was turning an even deeper shade of blue, as we stepped down onto the wet sand of the beach at Bogg...

286 Night crickets of the Kent coast (long sleep safe + some soft overflying planes)

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Capturing the sound-feel of real night quiet is special. It requires a lot of time and a location where quiet naturally occurs in more than just a fle...

285 Late October on Chesil Beach (sleep safe)

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The making of this high-definition sound photograph of Chesil Beach began thanks to the number 1 bus from Weymouth to Portland. As we stepped aboard, ...

284 The wind of Long Mynd

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reaching the top of Long Mynd in rural Shropshire requires a good steady climb. The rocky footpath winds up and up, and so must you, if you want to ge...

283 Night trees of Boggle Hole (sleep safe)

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Hood's Bay on the North Yorkshire coast feels remote for England. It lies at the bottom of a very steep road that descends down from the road be...

282 Night train to Paris (sleep safe if you like trains)

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The environment within the cabin of a sleeper train is, well, unusual. Quite contradictory. It feels empty when you first step in, but full seconds la...

281 Night rain in the Pyrenees (sleep safe with chimes)

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Beside the only road leading out of Sant Llorenc de la Muga we found a small group of trees. We didn't have much time. The sky was pitch black and the...

280 Pyrenees thunder above watery valley

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our friends told us that in Sant Llorenc the weather changes towards the end of August. Endless days of thick summer heat gives way to something altog...

279 Lento Long - Kielder Collection (180 minutes)

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this second August intermission we've once again brought together multiple recordings made across a location to share as one very long non-stop pi...

278 Lento Long - Quantocks collection (180 minutes)

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's August intermission time! This year we've decided to bring together recordings from more than one location in a specific geographic area and shar...

277 Emptiness within Shelve Wood at night - part II (sleep safe)

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're returning to Shelve Wood in Shropshire to witness another hour from the unaccompanied overnight capture we made in June. This section ...

276 First rain after drought (high definition spatial sound)

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's not often we record from the back garden. The spot is suburban. Grassy and full of tangled shrubs yes, and encircled by a sprawling wisteria too ...

275 Dawn in an apple tree - Derbyshire hills

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A bright April day has dawned in Derbyshire earlier in the spring. The air is unusually still for this time of year and this upland location. At just ...

274 Burgh Island midnight tide (sleep safe)

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(pronounced Birr Island) This long, slow Devon day, is drawing softly to a close. Looking out to sea, the sky beyond has already fallen velvet black. ...

273 Sunset fields and oak trees - spring in Shropshire

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Oak trees have a very particular sound this time of year. It's to do with the leaves. Their texture, shape and contours. How they catch and filter the...

272 Emptiness within Shelve Wood at night (sleep safe)

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Experiencing the spatial sense of emptiness, in a natural place, when there's nobody about, endlessly fascinates us. We built a high resolution immers...

271 Wild breezes in the reeds - spring along the Thames Estuary

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This soundscene was captured two weeks ago from a rackety wooden fence beside a grass meadow. Reeds are growing to right of scene, waving and hushing ...

270 Soundscene from Northward Hill Nature Reserve featuring a nightingale

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Whilst out along the Kent side of the Thames Estuary on Saturday, aiming to capture the sound of skylarks and reeds, we met a walker with a very frien...

269 Night crickets distant waves - Folkestone Warren (sleep safe)

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At this spot, high up on The Warren, in the dead of night, live the crickets. They're everywhere. Stridulating, like tiny minute hands etching the mom...

268 A wild ocean above ancient tree stumps

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pett in Sussex. A 'small peaceful seaside village'. Here you can visit a little timber chapel on the beach with an open door to a kitchen. You can tak...

267 Hidden dell at night (sleep safe)

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're staying on the uplands of rural Derbyshire to hear a passage of time from the dead of night. We captured it last month, from a locatio...

266 On upland pastures

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Left  of scene, a steep uninhabited valley, shrouded under dense woodland. Right of scene, rough pastures and grass meadows sloping gradually up, tow...

265 Low tide on the causeway (sleep safe)

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week we visited Burgh Island in Devon on the south west coast of England. We made two overnight recordings, both looking out towards the island f...

264 Garden rain at night (sleep safe)

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last summer when we were stuck at home, and when heavy rain was forecast between midnight and three, we decided it'd be nice to capture its sound. The...

263 Wild open coastal reserve

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sat back, looking onto Rye Harbour nature reserve. There, to the ear, is the sea. From here it's out of sight, somewhere below the long shingle ridge....

262 Night stream at West Quantoxhead (sheep sleep safe)

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We found our way to record this remote location late at night, and in near total darkness. A sheltered dell, with a fresh running stream. Earlier in t...

261 Midnight in Rye

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Twelve strikes the clock, of St Mary's Church in Rye, East Sussex. Midnight. A sound that for anyone left awake, opens a new page. It's a new day, cap...

260 Early spring in the Derbyshire hills

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What a long-form sound landscape recording of the Derbyshire hills reveals, is space, weather, and birds.    A buzzard. Mistle thrush. Song thrush. ...

259 Night rain under a large tarpaulin (sleep safe)

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes, when persistent rain is forecast overnight, we place the Lento box out in the back garden on a long battery to capture the sound. Falling r...

258 Tidal breakers on Winchelsea beach (high definition spatial sound)

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is almost high tide on Winchelsea Beach. Old timbers, buried in the shingle berm, point up into the hazy winter sky. You scrunch over the stones. R...

257 Dawn birds of The Kielder Forest

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This spatial sound-scene of dawn birdsong was captured from deep within the Kielder Forest, a huge wilderness of fir trees in the far north east of En...

256 Gulls and emptiness along the Creel Path

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(Hello! We're a different type of podcast. If you're new to us, before you listen, here's a few tips about getting the most out of listening to Radio ...

255 Quantock trees in late October air (night and sleep safe)

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A wide open landscape, under a dark October sky. Remote. Naturally quiet. Witnessed from behind a lone cottage hidden between tall graceful trees.  I...

254 Waves of West Somerset (sleep safe)

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Follow the path with the sea on your left side, until you reach the trees. It's only a small outcrop, just beyond the banks of tangled shrubbery and b...

253 Quiet night sky - Looe in Cornwall (sleep safe)

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Quiet sky. This is how one sounds. Above Looe, on the Cornish coast. Thousands of cubic miles of empty air. No planes. No cars. No lorries to throw up...

252 Late July breezes through the old churchyard

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This barmy afternoon in Holme-Next-The-Sea has gained a stiff undulating wind. It hurries past the sheep in the paddock next to St Mary's church. Whis...

251 Looking out on Portland Harbour

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Portland. Southeast 4 or 5 increasing 7 or 8 veering South 4 or 5 later. Occasional showers. Good, becoming moderate.  The Shipping Forecast marks...

250 Moorland trees in mid-winter gales (sleep safe after owl)

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For Christmas Eve we're sharing this nocturnal hour of sound landscape time captured by the Lento box in the high peaks of Derbyshire. Bare leafless t...

249 Night stream at West Quantoxhead (sleep safe after 17 mins)

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the stream to our right, we headed down from the exposed uplands of West Quantoxhead and into a shallow valley. Sky whitish grey. Air still. It s...

248 Late morning air on Kilve beach

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kilve beach is edged by sheer cliffs and is made of rocks. Mostly small ones the size of oranges, up to medium sized ones the size of sofa cushions. T...

247 Natural white noise from the firs of Kielder Forest

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is segment II from a 6-hour sound capture we took earlier this year at Kielder Forest in Northumberland. Recorded in spring, the environment is r...

246 Edgeland time by the Hythe Sound Mirror (sleep safe)

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Turn right off the towpath beside the Military Canal, cross the footbridge, locate the stile that leads onto the hill, then follow the rough footpath ...

245 Night rain on the edge of the Quantock hills (sleep safe)

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was late. Everybody had gone to bed. The remote cottage where we were staying in the Quantock Hills still felt warm, even though the oil burner had...

244 Rocky West Somerset beach (high-definition sound)

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We found this quiet place in West Somerset. Afternoon waves softly breaking along a rocky beach under October sunshine. The low landscape of Wales vis...

243 Night callings in the Forest of Dean - interleaved worlds

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It isn't often we hear strange calls coming out of our long overnight captures, but this was one. The dead of night deep in the Forest of Dean, and a ...

242 Kentish landscape time

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daytime contentedness can be found here. Between the rustling leaves and trees of Folkestone Warren that rolls greenly down towards the sea. We couldn...

241 Natural white noise from Folkestone Warren beach at night (sleep safe)

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An hour of uninterrupted white noise. Naturally occurring and fully spatial. Captured by the Lento box last weekend from a tree overlooking the beach ...

240 Wide time in the Kielder Forest (sleep safe with distant geese)

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week we shared wide time captured from a North Norfolk beach as night fell. This week it's wide time from the vast interior of the Kielder Forest...

239 Intertidal zone - night approaching

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Holme Dunes, Norfolk.  At low tide, and with night approaching, we finally managed to set up the Lento box on a tripod on the sand, mics facing out t...

238 Harvest fields aside The Peddars Way (100th location)

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the breeze, rich scents of hot Norfolk farmland. In the air, tiny wippling birds. Some swallows? Across the field, and across the next, a combine h...

237 Sighing sea beyond the Warren

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is first light. Birds are waking. Beginning to fill the air with sonorous sounds of life. A few dark bush crickets are still cricketing, just, thou...

236 Sunlit beach below the Warren

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Capturing the experience and 'sound-feel' of crashing waves is always a challenge. Strong on-shore breezes and the unbridled energy of thousand ton wa...

235 Night crickets above distant crashing waves (sleep safe)

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to a new Lento season of captured quiet. Sound landscapes from real places. This segment of spatial audio, best through headphones, was c...

234 Wild and exposed places - Intermission 4

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to this final intermission of August 2024, a specially blended episode of soundscapes from wild and exposed places taken from the last year of...

233 Rain - Intermission 3

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to intermission 3 of 4 and another specially blended soundscape taken from the last year of Lento. The theme is rain. Gorgeous, refreshing, so...

232 Waves and shorelines - Intermission 2

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to intermission 2, the second specially blended soundscape from the past year of Lento. This week's theme is waves and shorelines. There are f...

231 Streams and rivers - Intermission 1

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our first intermission episode. August is an especially busy recording month for us so while we are away, we want to share with you some sp...

230 Murmuring firs of Kielder Forest

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fir trees don't have what you might call normal leaves. Their leaves are needles. Each tree possesses many needles, too many to count. Especially when...

229 Dusk dissolves to night in the cathedral of trees

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On a warm May evening deep in the Forest of Dean, the sound of dusk is alive with birdsong from many different species. The air literally fizzes with ...

228 Summer rain under the wisteria (sleep safe)

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week we left the Lento box out to record overnight. Persistent rain was forecast from midnight onwards after a spell of dry weather. We n...

227 Light rain on the headland (sleep safe)

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Being out on a headland is an experience as fresh as it is freeing. Fresh because these steep craggy places resound continuously, without end, with th...

226 Perhaps a perfect upland stream (sleep safe)

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps it is, though you may know of one even more perfect. This stream follows a country road high in the empty hills above the small town of Ceri i...

225 Night suburban garden - quiet sound brutalism (sleep safe)

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Night rain, as it falls onto a quiet suburban garden, has a cool and spacious sound-feel. It seems to help focus the mind's eye onto the presence of o...

224 Shallow river under an open sky (sleep safe)

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back we go again to Miller's Dale in the Derbyshire hills. To this quiet spot, beside a shallow river wrilling. There's a country lane, and a steep gr...

223 Birdsong in deep forest ambience

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whilst walking up towards the observatory in the Kielder forest, we passed large areas of cleared woodland. "Fallen in the great storm of 2021" a pass...

222 The trees of Kielder Forest before dawn

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our quest to capture the pure sound of trees in true spatial quiet, we have without realising it, been following a long and winding path that has u...

221 An hour on the headland

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Time to take in a view. A panorama that changes with the wind and the tide. It's about six o'clock in the morning, and the Lento box has been recordin...

220 Empty night Cornish air (sleep safe and best with headphones / Airpods)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

West Looe at night. A Cornish town on the edge of the English Channel. An edge where human things end and emptiness begins. We've shared a few capture...

219 Country meadow summer breeze

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The time has come for hot sun. Hot sun and basking. Hot sun and basking, and listening to crickets. And just sitting, amongst the crickets taking it a...

218 Sing dawn - the songbirds of Abney Park nature reserve

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is hard to believe this is North East London at dawn. And yet it is. 5am, last Wednesday. Day break, on the 1st of May. Misted air, barely a breeze...

217 Upland woods in winter gales (part 2 - sleep safe)

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In winter gales amongst moorland trees at night. Dark sky. Empty of everything, except for the invisible moving wind.    A moor slopes steep up to t...

216 Sat on the sand of East Looe beach

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're not alone here, in this seaside town. A place of hot pasties, hot cups of tea, and families on a day out. A place of rolling Atlantic waves. Th...

215 Calm within Kilminorth Woods

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A fresh Cornish spring day last week, along the West Looe River valley. Hear an area of ancient woodland. Described as the lungs of Looe. It's Cornish...

214 Storm over hotel peninsula

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A birds ear view over Plymouth in the far south west of England. Plymouth in a fast gusting storm. Storm Kathleen. This is how it sounded from behind ...

213 Sound-scenes we love from four years of Lento

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today marks four years of Radio Lento! We launched on 29 March 2020. Since then, a hundred and forty hours of material shared. Hundreds of thousands o...

212 Ear witness: innercity woodland peace

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In late December 2020 we were given permission to make a long form landscape recording of Abney Park nature reserve in north east London. Abney Park i...

211 Nothe Fort at night - quiet swirling waves

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nothe Fort in Weymouth, on the Dorset coast. An old sea fort that celebrated its 150th birthday in 2022. For most of these years, it has been able to ...

210 Watery dell amidst trees at night (sleep safe)

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everything sounds different in the night. Close things sound sharper. More precise. That which is farther away, sounds larger, though it is still fart...

209 Downstream of the old mill

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here, take a seat on the bank. There's nobody about. Just you and the stream. And the birds of course. Cast your eyes around. Take it all in, before y...

208 Lone tree under windswept telegraph wires

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can imagine them. The telegraph poles. The long line of them that stand along the Creel Path, on the east coast of Scotland. The thousand year old...

207 Bucolic dell in upland meadows (subtle, slow, best with headphones)

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steep grassy meadows. Grazing sheep. Overgrown hedgerows. Thickets. Narrow stony streams, sometimes with sandy banks. Grit stone walls, with tumbled s...

206 Dawn birdsong in the leafy ravine

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meteorological spring is approaching. Mornings are getting lighter. Song birds have found their voices and although it's still early in the mating sea...

205 Soundscenes of a changing tide (sleep safe)

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Slide 1: Its the middle of the night. The Lento box is recording alone, tied to a cold, stark railing, that descends down the seawall into the water. ...

204 Rain falls on steep craggy woodland (sleep safe)

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh rain. Fresh woodland rain, from Miller's Dale in Derbyshire. From a hedgehog's perspective. Low on the forest floor, amidst the leaf litter, and...

203 Dartmoor stream above waterfall gorge (part 2)

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Below a stone circle high on Dartmoor called the Nine Maidens, there's a stream. It threads its way down through steep sloping pastures. In the distan...

202 Upland woods in winter gales (breathe easy and *sleep safe*)

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are spacious places in the world, where outcrops of woodland can be heard singing together in strong winter gales. Upland places. Uninhabited pl...

201 Out on Cooden Beach at night (part 2 - night breakers on shingle) *sleep safe*

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The night we captured this soundscene of Cooden Beach in East Sussex, there was a brisk onshore breeze blowing in from the west. West is to the right ...

200 Windswept night in the belfry of Rye Church

31 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Three o'clock has struck. Up steep ladders, on the top platform of the belfry inside Rye Church, the ancient clock counts through this small night hou...

199 Moorland forest mid winter gales

24 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

(Hello if you are new here! We're a different type of podcast. Here's a few tips about how to get the most out of listening to Radio Lento.) Twilight'...

198 Fishing village harbour at night (part 3 - wide open peacefulness)

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

(Hello! We're a different type of podcast. Before you listen, here's a few tips about how to get the most out of listening to Radio Lento.) From her...

197 December rain light to moderate (sleep safe)

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The rain came down, in the early hours of this morning, as I write.  Lovely rain. Light to moderate. Temperature 7. Dew point 4.  Wind EastNorthEast...

196 Estuary bleak passing ship

02 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Warm inside an all-weather coat. Facing out across the water. Sat, boots wedged against the top ridge of the slanted seawall. There's rain in the air....