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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An Alternative History of Art
BBC Radio 4,
2018
A series exploring overlooked visual artists from the 20th century. Art history has been written from a white, western male perspective. What would an alternative canon look like?
Select Copy Paste
BBC Radio 3,
2018
Clemency Burton-Hill explores the impact of technology on creativity. Technology may help us to be more productive, but does it make our ideas better?
The Spirit of Hessle Road
BBC Radio 4,
2017
Hessle Road is a working class district in Hull, a place of character, community but also hardship. A documentary by Hana Walker-Brown.
Breakfast with the Disruptors
BBC Radio 4,
2017
The balance has shifted from the incumbents to the challengers, from the old economy to the new. For some start-ups, the belief in disruption has taken on a near-religious edge. Forget rules, obligations and regulations - all that disrupts is good, all that stands in the way deserves to fail.
Guest Ghost Host Machine Marathon
Serpentine Galleries,
2017
The 2017 Serpentine Marathon brought together artists, scientists, activists, engineers, poets, sociologists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, anthropologists, theologians and musicians to consider the advent of ‘artificial intelligence’, consciousness, interspecies cooperation, machines, trans-humanism and non-linear time.
The Honky Tonk Nun
BBC Radio 4,
2017
Kate Molleson travels to Jerusalem to meet a legend of Ethiopian music, the piano-playing nun, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
Walks of Art Podcast
Tate,
2017
A new podcast series for Tate, exploring London, its artists and its streets.
Tim Samuels' Sleepover: Inside the Israeli Hospital
BBC Radio 4,
2017
Tim Samuels spends twenty-four hours immersed in an extraordinary medical scene - Israeli doctors tending to Syrians who have been smuggled over the border for life-saving treatment into a country Syria is technically still at war with.
Oscar Wilde's De Profundis
Artangel, BBC Radio 4,
2016
Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Prison between 1895 and 1897. His imprisonment led to one of his last great works: De Profundis. In association with Artangel and BBC Radio 4, Stephen Rea reads from Oscar Wilde's De Profundis in the prison cell where it was written.