Jon Nicholls
@jonnicholls.bsky.social
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)
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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!
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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September 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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...
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...
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
August 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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
August 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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.
August 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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?
www.bbc.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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
July 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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.
July 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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...
July 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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...
June 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A snapshot of the intolerable working conditions I had to endure while making this...
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
June 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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
May 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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.'
May 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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.'
May 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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...
Absolutely thrilled to be sound designing this, with music by the mighty @pjharveyofficial.bsky.social
www.whatsonstage.com/news/david-h...
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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May 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Absolutely thrilled to be sound designing this, with music by the mighty @pjharveyofficial.bsky.social
www.whatsonstage.com/news/david-h...
www.whatsonstage.com/news/david-h...
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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April 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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...
Reposted by Jon Nicholls
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-...
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Night Passage, by Alan Lamb
3 track album
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April 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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-...
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
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation
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.
April 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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, we have an opera
Houston Grand Opera - On Stage Breaking the Waves
A JOURNEY TO ECSTASY
www.houstongrandopera.org
April 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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)
April 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
March 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
that is an *excellent* excuse