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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Drawing Room Confessions: The Madeleine
Drawing Room Confessions,
2014
An 8 channel installation produced for Drawing Room Confessions at South London Gallery, London, Saturday 15th March 2014.
Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
Port Magazine,
2013
Schizophrenic, depressed or misfit - for more than a century, Willard Asylum in New York was home to those discard by society. Port Magazine talks to photographer John Crispin about the suitcases the residents left behind.
More than a Desert
BBC Radio 3,
2014
Twenty years after the death of the iconic filmmaker Derek Jarman, the poet Kate Tempest - only a child when Jarman died - creates a new radio poem on the Kent beach where he lived. Tempest has been shortlisted for this year's Mercury-prize and was named in September as one of the Next Generation poets.
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Miracle Marathon
Serpentine Galleries,
2016
The Miracle Marathon ran during Frieze Art Fair in October, 2016. Reduced Listening worked with curators at The Serpentine Gallery to create a 12 hour broadcast on ritual, repetition and magical thinking.
Mission Harpsichord
BBC Radio 3,
2015
From the "skeletons copulating on a tin roof" jibes of conductor Sir Thomas Beecham to its unfavourable characterisation as the ideal instrument of the Addams Family, the harpsichord is an often misunderstood instrument - sometimes dividing audiences. Harpsichord virtuoso Mahan Esfahani heads off on a personal journey to uncover the instrument's chequered history, why the people who play it are not always its best advocates, and how this ancient instrument has a very modern face too.
Three Generations of Incarceration
BBC Radio 4,
2012
Gary Younge travels to Los Angeles to hear the story of one family who has had three generations pass through America's criminal justice system.
Our Obsession With Weather
BBC Radio 4,
2010
The author Iain Sinclair presents a timely illustrated essay on that uniquely British obsession - the weather. Why has the seemingly-mundane weather forecast been an obsession for listeners and viewers since the early days of broadcasting? The first weather forecasts lasted five minutes and resembled a military briefing. Today they last a couple of minutes but viewers barely pay any attention, they recall little of what the forecasters said. Weather forecasters call for more time but does anyone place too much faith in the BBC's weather forecast anymore?