293 Pools of Rye Harbour (sleep safe)
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 coastal landscape. Rye Harbour Nature Reserve on t...
2 Mar 1h
292 Moorland trees in December gales - Derbyshire (sleep safe after owls at start)
Exposed moorland trees create a strong natural source of undulating white noise when shouldering the brunt of a winter gale. The sounds they produce are uniquely enchanting and an absolute delight to...
12 Feb 1h
291 High tide turning - the Crouch Estuary in Essex (sleep safe)
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 288 it's several hours later, about 4 in the mornin...
1 Feb 49min
290 Night rain in the Pyrenees (sleep safe)
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 bells every quarter are not ideal for those wanti...
18 Jan 1h 2min
289 Dawn birds of rural Shropshire
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 Shropshire which we visited last year thanks to a ...
7 Jan 1h 15min
288 Tidal estuary at night (sleep safe with plane at 23m)
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 inland from the east, light, gusting to moderate....
13 Des 202530min
287 Dusk on Boggle Hole beach - North Yorkshire coast
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 Boggle Hole. For a moment we just had to stand. Take i...
2 Des 202545min
286 Night crickets of the Kent coast (long sleep safe + some soft overflying planes)
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 fleeting way. Quiet is not silence. Silence is the ab...
16 Nov 20251h 31min
