Jon Nicholls

BBC Radio 4 - Spotlight, Faith Healer Friel's poetic masterpiece about loss, the creative mind and the subjectivity of memory.

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Faith Healer Music for Brian Friel's modern classic Faith Healer, produced by Hooley Productions for BBC Radio 4. Musicians: Joni Fuller (violin) / James Marchese (clarinets) / Jon Nicholls (piano). Copyright Jon

You can still hear Aidan Gillen, Daniel Mays & Michelle Fairley in Brian Friel's marvellous Faith Healer on BBC Sounds - I was lucky to work with some wonderful musicians on the score for this one: Joni Fuller (violin) and James Marchese (clarinet). on.soundcloud.com/0x3vSWY6jo3e...

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Faith Healer Friel's poetic masterpiece about loss, the creative mind and the subjectivity of memory.

A delight composing for this wonderful production and a treat to work with such terrific musicians; huge thanks to Joni Fuller (violin) and James Marchese (clarinet). Directed & produced by @jassicrea.bsky.social & @marypeate.bsky.social - listen now on BBC Sounds!

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BBC Sounds - In Dark Corners - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of In Dark Corners on BBC Sounds.

Series 1 & 2 still available on BBC Sounds (content warning: CSA). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Thrilled In Dark Corners series 2 has received a Prix Europa nomination; v proud to have been part of the team telling this story.

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
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‘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

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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

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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…”

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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!