Reduced Listening is an audio company making radio, podcasts, drama and documentary.
We work with the BBC and arts institutions, alongside cutting edge musicians and artists, and with people who have a story to tell.
We shine light through sound.
Nailing It
Spotify Studios
Reduced Listening steps into the world of vodcasting with a brand new original production for Spotify Studios... This is #NailingIt, a show about navigating the everyday challenges and toasting the triumphs of life in your twenties.
Decode (S02)
Spotify
Decode returns for a second series to go deep inside another iconic UK album, track by track, week by week, line by line, beat by beat. What masterpiece is being dissected this time? Say hello to Skepta’s award-winning Konnichiwa, from 2016.
Dream Fuel
BBC 6 Music
A brand new weekly 60-minute musical exploration, Dream Fuel With Arlo Parks - a space for music fans to share, relate, reflect, create, engage and be inspired.
Late Junction
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3´s flagship programme for adventurous listeners is produced by Reduced Listening. One night a week, fifty-two weeks a year, we share records, old and new, from electronic music to field recordings, new composition to African jive.
Man in a Bag
Audible
What led to the bizarre and macabre death of British spy, Gareth Williams. Journalists Jonathan Maitland and Vanessa Bowles investigate one of the strangest deaths in recent British history.
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Arthur Cares
BBC Radio 4,
2020
Following on from the success of BBC Radio 4's ‘Can my 11 year old fix my life?’ Arthur Ganjei, now older and wiser, wants to help you!
Lockdown Theatre Festival
BBC Radio 3 & 4,
2020
In April 2020 we created an online audio drama festival adapting 4 stage plays as part of the BBC’s Culture in Quarantine season. The Lockdown Theatre Festival was dreamed up to give life to the plays that had their theatre runs cancelled when Covid-19 struck.
What If Everyone Had Always Had A Disability?
BBC Radio 4,
2020
The writer, actor and rights activist Mat Fraser imagines how different our world would be – in design, technology and attitudes – if everybody had a disability.
Electronic India
BBC Radio 3,
2020
The discovery of a box of tapes in a cupboard in Ahmedabad sets musician Paul Purgas on the trail of a little-known chapter of Indian electronic music
I Think I’ve Been Here Before
BBC Radio 4,
2020
To mark Groundhog Day, writer Ross Sutherland explores the joy that comes from repetition
The End of The World Has Already Happened
BBC Radio 4,
2020
In a three-part series for Radio 4, Philosopher Timothy Morton explores our psychological relationship with the climate crisis
All Hail Kale Podcast
BBC Sounds,
2020
Proud to be involved in making the second series of All Hail Kale - the Wellness podcast for BBC Sounds. Award-winning Journalist Tim Samuels tells you what's best for your mind, body, diet and mood – served with heaps of expertise & a sprinkling of wit.
Bow Down Podcast
Frieze,
2020
Bow Down is a new podcast about significant women artists from the past who deserve our attention. For each 20-minute episode, Jennifer Higgie – frieze editor at large – invites an artist, writer, historian or curator to nominate an artist to whom we should all bow down
Get Up Stand Up Now Podcast
Somerset House,
2019
A crafted sound odyssey over five episodes, guided by the voices of Black creative pioneers featured in the Get Up, Stand Up Now exhibition at Somerset House, London