David Thomas
@thesounddesigner.bsky.social
Freelance sound designer (mainly BBC Radio), audio drama specialist and studio owner, Lewes UK.
The Lovecraft Investigations, Aldrich Kemp, Temporal (Audible) and BBC comedy shows.
The Lovecraft Investigations, Aldrich Kemp, Temporal (Audible) and BBC comedy shows.
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Interesting bit of archive from 1979 for Kate Bush fans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQoX...
1979: KATE BUSH prepares for her FIRST TOUR | Nationwide | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Interesting bit of archive from 1979 for Kate Bush fans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQoX...
My favourite photo from tonight’s bonfire celebrations in Lewes, taken half way up the high street.
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My favourite photo from tonight’s bonfire celebrations in Lewes, taken half way up the high street.
Lewes castle from our garden. Just now
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Lewes castle from our garden. Just now
Family Christmas presents incoming…
Whether you're going or not, the Europe 2025 merchandise range is now available at the W.A.S.T.E. store waste.lnk.to/rheuk25.wast...
If you're in Madrid, you can browse at the merch shop outside Movistar Arena, from 4pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week - no ticket required.
If you're in Madrid, you can browse at the merch shop outside Movistar Arena, from 4pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week - no ticket required.
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Family Christmas presents incoming…
Destroying some already broken laptops before taking for recycling. Recording interior and exterior drops, slides, fumbles and pick-ups. Recording at night to avoid birds and traffic.
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Destroying some already broken laptops before taking for recycling. Recording interior and exterior drops, slides, fumbles and pick-ups. Recording at night to avoid birds and traffic.
I think he’s seen me.
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I think he’s seen me.
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How can we use SOUND to enhance story-telling?
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
Masterclass: Writing with an Ear to Sound with David Hendy - Gladstone's Library
Writing with an Ear to Sound – a writing Masterclass with David Hendy 10.30am-3pm, Saturday 17th January 2026 – save the date! Join the...
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How can we use SOUND to enhance story-telling?
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
I just knew it. I was prepping some snooker sound effects that I did with John Virgo years ago for a show next week, and I said to myself “I bet I come across loads of John Virgo stuff in the next few days”.
It begins.
It begins.
Make sure you check your kid's Trick or Treat chocolate tonight. Last Halloween my son bit into a mini Mars bar and found a John Virgo ‘Gotcha' from Noel's House Party inside
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I just knew it. I was prepping some snooker sound effects that I did with John Virgo years ago for a show next week, and I said to myself “I bet I come across loads of John Virgo stuff in the next few days”.
It begins.
It begins.
It is a bit weird when I see a video of the Radio Museum and I realise I’ve spent literal years of my life sitting behind two of the three exact desks they have on display there.
(The old Radio 1/2 desk and the Radio Sussex one). I feel old but it is quite a cool thing.
youtu.be/ZjDXKQ63RaI
(The old Radio 1/2 desk and the Radio Sussex one). I feel old but it is quite a cool thing.
youtu.be/ZjDXKQ63RaI
A 20min tour of The Radio Museum, Watchet - as visited by The British Broadcasting Century
YouTube video by Paul Kerensa
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It is a bit weird when I see a video of the Radio Museum and I realise I’ve spent literal years of my life sitting behind two of the three exact desks they have on display there.
(The old Radio 1/2 desk and the Radio Sussex one). I feel old but it is quite a cool thing.
youtu.be/ZjDXKQ63RaI
(The old Radio 1/2 desk and the Radio Sussex one). I feel old but it is quite a cool thing.
youtu.be/ZjDXKQ63RaI
The desk at the end of the video below is the exact desk that I used for years at Pier Productions, old Radio Sussex building. Here’s a pic of it in its original location just before we decommissioned it.
The amp that powered the speakers (Quad 306) now powers the centre speaker in my own studio.
The amp that powered the speakers (Quad 306) now powers the centre speaker in my own studio.
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The desk at the end of the video below is the exact desk that I used for years at Pier Productions, old Radio Sussex building. Here’s a pic of it in its original location just before we decommissioned it.
The amp that powered the speakers (Quad 306) now powers the centre speaker in my own studio.
The amp that powered the speakers (Quad 306) now powers the centre speaker in my own studio.
The Greenwich Meridian on the first night of GMT
October 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Greenwich Meridian on the first night of GMT
I arrived to record a show yesterday and the internal power supply of my big desk had died. Aargh.
Thankfully I always travel with a spare desk of the same type (but smaller channel count) so I was up and running again in 5 mins-ish. Phew.
Parts to fix main desk arrive tomorrow.
🪛 🔧 ⚡️
Thankfully I always travel with a spare desk of the same type (but smaller channel count) so I was up and running again in 5 mins-ish. Phew.
Parts to fix main desk arrive tomorrow.
🪛 🔧 ⚡️
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I arrived to record a show yesterday and the internal power supply of my big desk had died. Aargh.
Thankfully I always travel with a spare desk of the same type (but smaller channel count) so I was up and running again in 5 mins-ish. Phew.
Parts to fix main desk arrive tomorrow.
🪛 🔧 ⚡️
Thankfully I always travel with a spare desk of the same type (but smaller channel count) so I was up and running again in 5 mins-ish. Phew.
Parts to fix main desk arrive tomorrow.
🪛 🔧 ⚡️
Reposted by David Thomas
Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...
Extraction de la TAPISSERIE DE BAYEUX - 18 09 2025
YouTube video by Bayeux Museum
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October 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...
I’ve done a bit of ambience recording over the last couple of days. Beachy Head, top and bottom on consecutive days. 500ft cliffs on the Sussex coast. Just about managed to avoid the rain
October 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’ve done a bit of ambience recording over the last couple of days. Beachy Head, top and bottom on consecutive days. 500ft cliffs on the Sussex coast. Just about managed to avoid the rain
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In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Slows in a jar with sugar and gin. Looks like a Pixies album cover.
October 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Slows in a jar with sugar and gin. Looks like a Pixies album cover.
Picking Sloes to make Sloe Gin.
It should be just about ready for Christmas.
It should be just about ready for Christmas.
October 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Picking Sloes to make Sloe Gin.
It should be just about ready for Christmas.
It should be just about ready for Christmas.
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this was recorded as an encore, after we’d made homecoming, the first episode of which - the one we recorded in addis - might just be the best half hour of sound i’ve ever made, and which you can no longer hear legally *anywhere*. shame. it was really good.
October 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this was recorded as an encore, after we’d made homecoming, the first episode of which - the one we recorded in addis - might just be the best half hour of sound i’ve ever made, and which you can no longer hear legally *anywhere*. shame. it was really good.
Reposted by David Thomas
it’s international poetry day so here’s lemn sissay reading invisible kisses at a gig we did in addis ababa
Invisible Kisses at The Ghion Hotel in Addis Ababa 2015
YouTube video by Lemn Sissay
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
it’s international poetry day so here’s lemn sissay reading invisible kisses at a gig we did in addis ababa
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Amazing story of four vintage clothing dealers rescuing depression-era workwear from an Appalachian farmhouse, and the story that the very visible mending tells of a family with nothing, doing whatever they could to make it through.
prelovedpod.substack.com/p/one-thousa...
prelovedpod.substack.com/p/one-thousa...
One Thousand Vintage Garments Found in an Appalachian Farmhouse
Four vintage dealers uncover a single family's Depression-era survival story written in thread and patches
prelovedpod.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Amazing story of four vintage clothing dealers rescuing depression-era workwear from an Appalachian farmhouse, and the story that the very visible mending tells of a family with nothing, doing whatever they could to make it through.
prelovedpod.substack.com/p/one-thousa...
prelovedpod.substack.com/p/one-thousa...
Legendary 93 year old designer Dieter Rams (classic Braun, Vitsoe and a huge inspiration on Jony Ive/ Apple) has won the World Design Medal.
His approach of simple environmentally responsible design has always spoken to me.
I love idea of “Joyful seriousness” in design
www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/wdo...
His approach of simple environmentally responsible design has always spoken to me.
I love idea of “Joyful seriousness” in design
www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/wdo...
The World Design Medal is awarded to Dieter Rams
The World Design Medal is awarded to Dieter Rams
www.vitsoe.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Legendary 93 year old designer Dieter Rams (classic Braun, Vitsoe and a huge inspiration on Jony Ive/ Apple) has won the World Design Medal.
His approach of simple environmentally responsible design has always spoken to me.
I love idea of “Joyful seriousness” in design
www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/wdo...
His approach of simple environmentally responsible design has always spoken to me.
I love idea of “Joyful seriousness” in design
www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/wdo...
Reposted by David Thomas
A friend just sent me a voice note so long it was brought to me by Squarespace
September 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A friend just sent me a voice note so long it was brought to me by Squarespace
Reposted by David Thomas
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
I missed the broadcast as I was on holiday but this is now up on BBC Sounds, produced by Laura Grimshaw and mixed by me.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Spinal Tap II on Radio 2 - BBC Sounds
The story of the legendary comic band returning to the big screen after 40 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I missed the broadcast as I was on holiday but this is now up on BBC Sounds, produced by Laura Grimshaw and mixed by me.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Went out to see the blood moon and found a very nice couple with a very big lens taking a photo of the moon from the end of our drive. Clouds meant we didn’t see the red phase though
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September 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Went out to see the blood moon and found a very nice couple with a very big lens taking a photo of the moon from the end of our drive. Clouds meant we didn’t see the red phase though
www.instagram.com/p/DOUNEFxjCp...
www.instagram.com/p/DOUNEFxjCp...