Late at night, who hasn’t found themselves struggling to put aside the stresses of the day? Forget about whale song, falling rain and white noise – sometimes what your tired mind needs is an adventure. That is what Hannah Peel offers as a presenter of BBC Radio 3’s , broadcast for an hour-and-a-half each night at 11pm. In the first 15 minutes of a recent episode, she led her listeners from a new piece by German composer Sophia Jani, via a sparkling performance on a – a kind of zither from Balochistan – to a chant by a ninth-century Byzantine nun. ‘Music to carry you into the darker hours, across the globe and beyond,’ she says in a smiling voice as she introduces the show, a cheerful guide with a Yorkshire accent
