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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The Dvorak Statement
BBC Radio 3,
2017
Mahan Esfahani explores the history of African American Classical Music for BBC Radio 3.
16:5:66
BBC Radio 4,
2016
On Monday 16th of May, 1966 two of the greatest albums of all time were released. Through archive, interviews and music from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, we tell the story of the music from that momentous day.
Bring Your Darlings Back To Life
BBC Radio 4,
2015
Hidden away, beneath old newspapers, books of stamps and expectant sellotape lie the best pieces of work. They are the Darlings. The stories, the ornaments, the gems we are told to cut. But what if these anecdotes had a programme to themselves? What if you could bring those Darlings back to life ?
The Business of Music
BBC Radio 4,
2016
In the first of a two-part series, journalist and broadcaster Matt Everitt talks to record executives, industry insiders, artists and fans about the decisions that have transformed the record industry.
Something Old Something New
BBC Radio 4,
2015
From a Sheffield estate, to the shores of South Carolina, Johny Pitts heads off in search of the roots of his family´s musical migration and an alternative Black British identity
Waithood
BBC World Service,
2015
What does it mean to be a grown-up in the 21st Century? If the path to maturity is about stable work, marriage and a home for your family where does that leave those who haven't achieved these goals? A three part series for the BBC World Service.
Rowing Across the Pacific Podcast
Port Magazine,
2015
In an exclusive podcast for Avaunt Magazine, British adventurer Sylvia Cook recounts her record-breaking ocean voyage with legendary rower John Fairfax.
And Europe Will Be Stunned
Artangel,
2013
An audio companion to Yael Bartana’s controversial and acclaimed trilogy of films And Europe Will Be Stunned which follow the evolution of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland, a not-quite-fictional organisation calling for the return of 3.3m Jews to the land of their forefathers.
The Business of Film with Mark Kermode
BBC Radio 4,
2015
This series for BBC Radio 4 quickly became the most downloaded podcast in the UK as Mark Kermode revealed the economic realities behind the film industry