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Doze off dreaming about cricket with Nish Kumar

Comedian, podcast host and cricket-lover Nish Kumar reads a scorecard from the 2019 Ashes series, alongside restful music from BBC Introducing to help you doze off.

Summer’s sporting season is here, so for many of us that means it’s time to lie back, relax and take a good nap. For his Sleeping Forecast, comedian, podcast host and cricket-lover Nish Kumar reads the scorecard from the final test match of the 2019 Ashes series between England and Australia, alongside restful music from BBC Introducing.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds

Available now

1 hour

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Music Played

  • Josch Hügel

    Bloom

    • Bloom.

  • James Hawken

    Ease Your Day

    • Ease Your Day.

  • Tomas Wilhelm

    A World Away

    • A World Away.
    • Nordic Euphony Records.

  • Thibault Ravina

    In a Serene Light

    • From a New Distance.

  • Matt Stewart-Evans

    The Optimist

    • The Optimist.
    • 1631 Recordings.

  • Mark Sutton

    Transcendence

    • Transcendence.

  • Angeline Bell

    The Spider

    Performer: Nikolas Sideris.
    • My Quirky Notebook.

  • Matias Dal Pos

    Quando sono partito

    • Tra I Silenzi Nei Ricordi.

  • Ollie Jones

    Seasons

    • Frozen in Time: Vol. 1.

  • Matt Javanshir

    Bittersweet Memories

    • Rainy Day Piano.

  • Alastair Penman & Jonathan Pease

    And Everything is Still

    • And Everything is Still.
    • Meadowbank Music.

  • Joe Semple

    Leaving the harbour

    • Leaving the harbour.
    • Andante Piano.

  • Less Mindless Mind

    Cul-de-sac

    • Cul-de-sac.

  • Neil Foster

    Twilight Dreams

    • Twilight Dreams.
    • Pickledog Music.

  • Chris Tolley

    For George

    • Equal.
    • Silent Beat.

  • Helen Keeling-Marston

    Awakening

    • Somnolent Sessions.

  • Kerim Kalyon

    Back Home

    • Sonder.

  • IMAGINARIS

    Lucy

    • Resonant Futures.
    • FlyingMan Records.

  • Maddy Chassar-Hesketh

    Beauty Will Save the World

    • From Galaxies to Cells.

  • Andrew Land

    Submerse

    • Submerse.
    • Mare Nostrum Label.

  • Alisa Marie

    Searching for Lambs

    • Searching for Lambs.
    • Rivendell Records.

  • Yvonne Bloor

    Absent Friend

    • Evocation.
    • His Records.

Podcast

  • The Sleeping Forecast

    A unique journey to dreamland, mixing instrumental music and Radio 4's Shipping Forecast.