Featuring Sam Swann, Geoffrey Lumb, and Lily Bevan. Written and directed by Simon Scardifield, with sound design by @jonnicholls.bsky.social. Produced by @chloesackur.bsky.social, executive produced by Charlotte Melén. An Almost Tangible production for BBC Radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The School Run

When Gareth heads out on a jog, he discovers his past has caught up with him.

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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Celebrate the opening of the World Cup by spending 45 surreal minutes inside the feverish head of Albert Camus as he navigates self-doubt, the offside rule and various intrusive helpful / unhelpful major philosophers during a critical match. 2.15pm today on BBC Radio 4.

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Goalkeeper’s Guide to Absurdism

Albert Camus meets his dream team, a funny, emotional and philosophical glance at football

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Just noticed Our Friends In The North, on which I was a very happy part of the sound design gang, is having another outing on Radio 4 at the moment; catch ep3 at 2.15 today. Adapted for radio by the original writer Peter Flannery and produced by Mel Harris.

For those who might have missed it in the West End or in cinemas, #othello from Chris Harper Productions is now streaming on Marquee Arts TV. With Caitlin Fitzgerald, David Harewood, Toby Jones & Vinette Robinson; dir. Tom Morris; designed by Ti Green; sound design by me; music by PJ Harvey with me

Delighted this evening's Illuminated: Voices From the Beach is pick of the week in the Radio Times. Apparently Saili Katebe, Monica Whitlock and I have made a 'lyrical wave of audio' (I see what they've done there...). 7.15pm on Radio 4 then @bbcsounds

Coming soon to BBC Radio 4 ! Albert Camus fends off strikers, self-doubt and a nasty cough, whilst fielding not-entirely helpful suggestions from a whole gaggle of famous philosophers who seem somehow to have invaded the pitch (no Monty Python jokes please..). With Arthur Darvill & Cecilia Appiah.

That's a wrap! Back from a few lovely days not-in-the-studio with the mighty @almost-tangible.bsky.social recording The School Run: new drama coming soon to BBC Radio 4. Props to the cast for amiably running continuously in 30C heat while wearing a bewildering array of microphones.

Sonny Rollins plays his saxophone on the Williamsburg Bridge, 1966 📷 David McLane

Just about got all the sand out of my recorder by now...coming soon to BBC Radio 4, made in collaboration with the brilliant Saili Katebe.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Eps 1 & 2 of Don Quixote, starring Jason Watkins & Mackenzie Crook, are now up on BBC Sounds. The music is an especial treat - recorded in Castile on traditional Spanish medieval instruments played by the amazing Paco Díez. Sound design, music production and mix by me.

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Don Quixote, Episode 1

Jason Watkins and Mackenzie Crook star in Cervantes’ classic story dramatised for radio.

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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Delighted to have been reunited with Afonica Productions for series 2 of psycho-myco-horror epic Spores by @mazkirkbride.bsky.social - out now on BBC Sounds!

BBC Radio 4 - Limelight, Spores: Series 2, Episode 1. False Hunter

The supernatural horror returns set amid the mysterious world of mycelium.

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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...

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

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

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Faith Healer

Friel's poetic masterpiece about loss, the creative mind and the subjectivity of memory.

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

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.

Drama on 4 - Red Gold - BBC Sounds

Original drama inspired by the infected blood scandal. Can money compensate for injustice?

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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...

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

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Walk in Time

Human time meets earth time on the Jurassic coast of Dorset.

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

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.'

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...

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, A Walk in Time

Human time meets earth time on the Jurassic coast of Dorset.

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

David Harewood to play Othello in new West End production

He’s part of a star cast

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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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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...

Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe

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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-...

Night Passage, by Alan Lamb

3 track album

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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

Houston, we have an opera

Houston Grand Opera - On Stage Breaking the Waves

A JOURNEY TO ECSTASY

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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)

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!

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards - The 2025 Finalists

Details of the finalists in the 2025 BBC Audio Drama Awards

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