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Mindfulness and Nature

Clemency Burton-Hill returns to BBC Radio 3 to present two special editions of
Classical Fix tied in with Mental Health Awareness Week (Sunday 1 and Sunday 8
May).

Celebrated broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill makes a welcome return to BBC
Radio 3 to host two special editions of the award-winning podcast Classical Fix,
talking to her guests about the playlists she’s made for them and exploring the
effects of music on mental health (broadcast on Sunday 1 and Sunday 8 May).

The two programmes are part of a station-wide focus on the 2022 Mental Health
Awareness Week (Monday 9 to Sunday 15 May). Other BBC Radio 3 programmes
marking the Week are Music Matters, which will be discussing musicians’ mental
health, and Free Thinking, looking at ASMR.

BBC Radio 3 this Spring also presents programming inspired by mindfulness and
nature, including:

• Sunday Breakfast’s Signs Of Spring with naturalist and conservationist Lucy
'Lapwing' Hodson exploring woodlands and gardens, and highlighting the sounds of
birds and sights of flowers and plants which signal the arrival of the Spring season
(until Sunday 8 May)
• A special Slow Radio moment following 15-year-old Labrador Honey’s day (A Day In
The Life Of A Dog, Sunday 3 July)
• The Music & Meditation Podcast, with Mercury-nominated singer and songwriter Nao
presenting the ultimate therapeutic podcast series, combining music and meditation
to help listeners deal with the stresses and strains of everyday life. Episodes range
from FOMO to body positivity, through to dealing with loneliness and trusting your
instincts, with a carefully curated classical soundtrack featuring some of the UK’s
most talented up-and-coming composers, and new music performed by the BBC
Concert Orchestra and commissioned especially for the podcast (weekly from
Sunday 15 May and on BBC Sounds from w/c 9 May).
• Essential Classics on BBC Radio 3 presents five Slow Moments featuring five of the
pieces specially-commissioned for the podcast – by composers Belle Chen; Lucy
Walker, Sam Rapley, Kristina Arakelyan and Lloyd Coleman (Monday 9 – Friday 13
May).

Other Forthcoming Highlights
Radio 3 Breakfast follows the Great Glen (Monday 6 - Friday 10 June)

Petroc Trelawny presents the latest instalment of his weeks of Radio 3 Breakfast on
the road, travelling the Great Glen in Scotland as it cuts through the Highlands from
north east to south west.

Beginning at Cromarty, looking out to the Moray Firth towards Scandinavia, and
ending in Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull looking out into Iona and across the Atlantic
Ocean, Petroc travels along the ‘Great Fault’ - a geological fault line pulling the top of
the country north eastwards. Along the way, travelling by Loch Ness, the Caledonian
Canal and through Oban, he meets locals who help tell the story of how landscape
and history intertwine to make culture and music.