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Jon Nicholls

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award-winning sound designer | composer of acoustic & electronic music | audio producer | Winner Best Sound Design 2022 #BBCAudioDramaAwards www.jonnicholls.com

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi all – I’m a composer & sound designer working mainly in audio storytelling with the BBC, Audible and others; looking forward to connecting with the audio community on here. Our Mutual Friend (R4), Uncharted with Hannah Fry (BBC Sounds), Love and Information (R3), Spores (Limelight / BBC Sounds)

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Sep 3

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BBC Radio 4 - Spotlight, Faith Healer

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

www.bbc.co.uk

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Aug 25

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

BBC Sounds - In Dark Corners - Available Episodes

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

www.bbc.co.uk

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Aug 1

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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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Jul 10

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...

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · May 25

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

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · May 23

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.'

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · May 23

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.'

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · May 19

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · May 9

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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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

‘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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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Apr 28

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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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · Apr 24

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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Night Passage, by Alan Lamb

3 track album

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Apr 10

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.

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Apr 10

Houston, we have an opera

Houston Grand Opera - On Stage Breaking the Waves

A JOURNEY TO ECSTASY

www.houstongrandopera.org

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Apr 4

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)

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Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Mar 30

that is an *excellent* excuse

Jon Nicholls @jonnicholls.bsky.social · Mar 30

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

www.bbc.co.uk

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