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Unclassified Episodes

  1. Music for holding your breath

    Elizabeth Alker serves up an hour of breathtaking sounds that defy classification.

  2. Earthbound and Heavenly

    Ambient and experimental music that praises the terrestrial and reaches for the heavens.

  3. Music for growing flowers and moving pictures

    Elizabeth Alker shares selections from the corners of ambient and electronic music.

  4. An Ambient Ramble

    Elizabeth Alker goes for a walk through ambient summer landscapes.

  5. New sounds in ambient music

    Elizabeth Alker selects new sounds in ambient music.

  6. Folk-inspired escapism

    Elizabeth Alker serves up an hour of folk-inspired electronics and ambience.

  7. John Carroll Kirby’s Listening Chair

    Elizabeth Alker presents a mix of experimental and ambient music.

  8. Crashing waves and curlew calls

    Escape with Elizabeth Alker for an hour of music that defies classification.

  9. Dawn choruses

    Elizabeth Alker with a mix of ambient and experimental music that welcomes in the light

  10. Eve Adams’s Listening Chair

    Elizabeth Alker presents eclectic ambient music, plus Eve Adams is in the Listening Chair.

  11. Loops, space, movement

    Elizabeth Alker with a mix of ambient and groove-based music to dream and move to.

  12. Live Music from After Dark Festival

    Elizabeth Alker presents more live music highlights from Radio 3’s After Dark Festival.

  13. After Dark Festival

    Elizabeth presents live music highlights from Christian Löffler, Darkstar and Kinbrae.

  14. Sound waves to soothe and inspire

    Elizabeth Alker offers up a mix of ambient and experimental music to soothe and inspire.

  15. The Blessed Madonna's Listening Chair

    Elizabeth Alker with earthly and transcendent sounds from the world of ambient music.

  16. Wistful Moments

    Elizabeth Alker hosts with wistful saxophone and soaring strings from Portico Quartet.

  17. Unclassified Live: Hidden in the Margins

    Elizabeth Alker presents Unclassified Live, recorded at the Southbank Centre.

  18. A Glance ahead to Unclassified Live

    Elizabeth Alker previews the next edition of Unclassified Live.

  19. Animal Collective in the Listening Chair

    Animal Collective’s Geologist picks a song that transports him to another place.

  20. As Cold As Ice

    Elizabeth Alker presents chilling ambient sounds inspired by the Arctic marine environment

  21. Ambience that gleams and glitters

    Elizabeth Alker shares sounds inspired by shifting daylight and celestial ice.

  22. Space Afrika’s Listening Chair

    Elizabeth Alker with ambient recordings to sink into and lose yourself amidst.

  23. Christmas, Unclassified

    Elizabeth Alker with soothing and seasonal sonics from the realms of the unclassifiable.

  24. Electronic escapades

    Elizabeth Alker surveys the landscape of contemporary ambient recordings.

  25. Mary Anne Hobbs in the Listening Chair

    Elizabeth Alker with music by a new generation of unclassifiable composers.

  26. Floating in mid-air

    Elizabeth Alker presents music that gives the feeling of floating in mid-air.

  27. Unclassified Live

    Elizabeth Alker hosts in front of a live audience at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

  28. Melissa Harrison’s Listening Chair

    Novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison sits in the listening chair.

  29. Ambient Inspirations at the London Jazz Festival

    Elizabeth Alker with music by a new generation of unclassifiable composers.

  30. Dreaming of Dusk

    Elizabeth Alker presents music that evokes the magical transition between light and dark.

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