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Hop in the car and let John Robins take you on a road trip to understand the role composers are playing in shaping the sounds of electric vehicles.

You may have experienced a strange feeling in a car park over the last few years, where you hear a sound that resembles a choir of angels. Have no fear, your time isn鈥檛 up (yet). It鈥檚 one of a range of sounds that manufacturers are required by law to add to electric vehicles (EVs) to warn road users that a car is approaching.

And with the drive to electric gathering momentum, it鈥檚 a sound we're hearing more and more. Comedian John Robins takes a drive in an EV for the first time, and talks to some of the composers and musicians involved in designing the sounds that are changing the world around us. Will new cars on the market echo the old combustion engines we're familiar with, or will our sonic landscape change forever?

John speaks to composer Jean-Michel Jarre, creative director for sound design at BMW Group Renzo Vitale, John Kallen - the co-founder and creative lead of Audio UX, creative sound director for General Motors Jay Kapadia, and writer Roisin Kiberd.

Producer: Fiona Clampin
Executive Producer: Leonie Thomas
Sound mix: Mike Woolley
An Overcoat Media production for 麻豆社 Radio 4