Jarvis Cocker presents BBC Sounds programme, The Sleeping Forecast
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is set to launch his own special episode of The Sleeping Forecast for BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds.
Earlier this year, to mark 100 years since the first broadcast of the Shipping Forecast on BBC radio on 4 July 1925, Jarvis Cocker recorded an episode to be broadcast at Crossed Wires Podcast Festival, Sheffield. Now he's back with an episode of The Sleeping Forecast.
The programme features a range of sleep-inducing music, chosen by Jarvis Cocker, including from Brian Eno, Arvo Pärt, Éliane Radigue and Kate Bush, interspersed with Jarvis reading segments of BBC Radio 4’s iconic Shipping Forecast.
Speaking exclusively on the episode, he shares: “I always used to use the Shipping Forecast to help me fall asleep at night, but now I’m looking forward to bringing you my personal selection of tracks for the Sleeping Forecast. Music I feel will help you access a new dimension. The dimension of sleep. This programme is intended to be a portal allowing listeners access to a restful night of slumber. Sweet dreams.”
The episode will be available on BBC Sounds from 23 October at 9pm and broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music on 26 October from 12am-2am to close the station’s Slow Sunday. For more information, visit bbc.co.uk.
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