Jon Nicholls

Drama on 4 - Red Gold - BBC Sounds Original drama inspired by the infected blood scandal. Can money compensate for injustice?

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Anita Sullivan's meticulously researched hugely powerful drama about the infected blood scandal and almost equally shocking compensation scandal, with Christine Bottomley, Mat Fraser and Amanda Wilkin. Prod. Polly Thomas, sound design JN. Now available on BBC Sounds.

Thinking of Tom Lehrer happily poisoning pigeons in a celestial park somewhere

A truly humbling experience being involved in telling this shocking story still affecting thousands of lives. Powerful meticulously researched new drama from Anita Sullivan, with Mat Fraser, Christine Bottomley and Amanda Wilkin; dir. Polly Thomas, sound design by me. TX 29.7.25 on BBC Radio 4.

Arvon calling...for anyone wanting to develop their writing into audio, come and join audio fiction gurus Polly Thomas and @danrebellato.bsky.social (and me!) at @arvonfoundation.bsky.social in September. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

A snapshot of the intolerable working conditions I had to endure while making this...

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Walk in Time Human time meets earth time on the Jurassic coast of Dorset.

Illuminated: A Walk In Time is now up on BBC Sounds; take a walk through human and geological time on the beaches of the Jurassic Coast. Co-produced by myself and Monica Whitlock, with music and sound design by me.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cz8y

Delighted to have had a sonic hand in this brilliant film from Imogen Lea & Joe Carver - out now

Jury comments: 'This gripping audio drama reimagines the sci-fi classic with powerful storytelling, immersive sound design, and a fresh take on an alien’s descent into a fractured world. A standout achievement in narrative radio.'

Back from two inspirational days at #thepodcastshow2025 to the lovely news that #themanwhofelltoearth (@bafflegabble.bsky.social for BBC Radio 4) won a Grand Award at #newyorkfestivalsradioawards! This was a really special one to sound design - 'A standout achievement in narrative radio.'

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Walk in Time Human time meets earth time on the Jurassic coast of Dorset.

Delighted to have my first production credit in Radio 4's #illuminated series. Music, location recording & sound design JN; co-produced by myself and Monica Whitlock. TX 1.6.25. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

David Harewood to play Othello in new West End production He’s part of a star cast

Absolutely thrilled to be sound designing this, with music by the mighty @pjharveyofficial.bsky.social
www.whatsonstage.com/news/david-h...

‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year Joshua Bonnetta spent 8,760 hours recording a pine – then honed it down into a four-hour album full of creatures, cracking branches and quite possibly the sound of leaves growing

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe

Delighted to have collaborated with Imagineear and Atlantic Theater Company on the dramatised audio companion pieces for visitors to the quite extraordinary Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe exhibition at NYC's Museum of Arts and Design, running to the end of September. madmuseum.org/exhibition/s...

Night Passage, by Alan Lamb 3 track album

Farewell to Australian composer Alan Lamb (1944-2025), whose works explored the magical resonances of singing wires. Hearing them is an eerie and unsettling experience. Wonderful sounds indeed. His classic works are now available on @room40.bsky.social

room40.bandcamp.com/album/night-...

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation

Tom Morris' production of Missy Mazzoli's extraordinary opera Breaking The Waves has been touring globally since it took the Edinburgh International Festival by storm in 2019 and is due to open at Houston Grand Opera later this month. Designed by Soutra Gilmour, lights Rich Howell, sound design JN.

Houston Grand Opera - On Stage Breaking the Waves A JOURNEY TO ECSTASY

Houston, we have an opera

Delighted two of 2024's projects shortlisted at the New York Festivals Radio Awards! The Man Who Fell To Earth prod. @bafflegabble.bsky.social for BBC Radio 4 (sound design JN) and Lonely No More from @audiama.bsky.social by @sebbyb.bsky.social dir. @jassicrea.bsky.social (sound design & music JN)

that is an *excellent* excuse

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards - The 2025 Finalists Details of the finalists in the 2025 BBC Audio Drama Awards

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a... Looking forward to catching up with pals and colleagues at the #BBCAudioDramaAwards2025 - fingers crossed for Song From Far Away (up for best sound), Love & Information (best adaptation) and Kate O’Flynn (up for best actress / Spores). Good luck to everyone nominated!

Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history…

Mural featuring a woman in blue hijab standing holding a keyboard to her chest while a row of ominous looking men with guns in black stand in a row behind her

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent Hundreds of hours of original plays have been cut from the corporation’s programming in recent years. If the trend continues, a valuable training ground for writers will be lost

“But the small single play that allows a writer to be themselves or rather – crucially – to become themselves is increasingly rare. A writer’s loss is an audience’s loss too…”

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Ratcatcher Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Based on the bestselling Audible Original by Anthony Khaseria, THE RATCATCHER is a thrilling police drama for fans of Joy Ellis and Michael Wood. It's been...

Release day! Out today on Audible - The RatCatcher: fantastic new 6 x 60'' crime thriller by Anthony Khaseria. Produced by @bafflegabble.bsky.social dir. @bethanyweimers.bsky.social sound design & Dolby Atmos mix by me.

Thanks Ella!

Thrilled that *three* of my sound design / music projects are finalists at #BBCAudioDramaAwards2025 - Song From Far Away (Best Use Of Sound), Drama on 3: Love & Information (Best Adaptation) and Spores (Best Actress -Kate O’Flynn)

UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says Exclusive: Beeban Kidron says plans will lead to ‘wholesale’ transfer of wealth from creative industries to tech sector * UK politics live – latest updates A consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence…

UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says

A mosaic of an owl, with part of the black and white corner of the mosaic border above him. The owl is a mess. He honestly looks like he hasn't slept for days.

We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl.
🦉

Parable Of The Sower, though it’ll feel like observational documentary just at the moment

BBC Radio 4 - In Dark Corners - Available now Available episodes of In Dark Corners

Child sexual abuse in institutions, cultural changes, organised cover-up... and how we could make children safer today.
All episodes/series of In Dark Corners now on BBC Sounds, Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc. @mandatenow.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...