Baby, You Can Compose My Car

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’t up (yet). It’s one of a range of sounds that car manufacturers are required by law to add to electric vehicles (EVs) to warn pedestrians and other road users that a car is approaching. And with the drive to electric gathering momentum, it’s a sound we’ll be hearing a lot more of in the future. Comedian John Robins takes a drive in an EV, 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 internal combustion engines we're familiar with, or will our sonic landscape change forever?