RADIO
Can a snoring reindeer give you a stress-free Christmas?
BBC Radio 3 tracked the animals across snowy Scandinavia for a festive special
Slow Radio: The Reindeer follows the travels of a reindeer mother and her young as they traverse the Nordic landscape
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The Times
Recordings on Radio 3 are not normally high-risk. A flurry of coughs at a Wigmore Hall broadcast might be annoying but won’t derail the concert. And if a violinist is taking her time to flit from dressing room to stage, you can normally rely on velvet-voiced Petroc Trelawny to fill the unscheduled silence. But if your star performer is threatened by a hungry bear, the stakes go up a notch.
Luckily the heroine of Radio 3’s festive line-up has survived to make it onto our festive schedules. She is an eight-year-old reindeer and in the autumn she trekked, or perhaps trotted, six miles with her six-month-old calf, a little odyssey captured through pioneering technology and being presented as the centrepiece of a “slow radio” season
