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15/12/2025

What does YOUR Christmas sound like? Wherever you are in the world, if it's the sound of you walking on the beach, singing karaoke, fireworks over the river, or the low hum of the TV, share your Christmas sounds with us via a short Whatsapp voice note to +44 3700 100 444 with the word 'CHRISTMAS'.

We are looking for recordings ON CHRISTMAS DAY.

This is for a new programme called 'A Very Global Christmas' that we're making for BBC Radio 4. For full terms & conditions check the link in the comments.

Thank you, and please share with your friends around the world!

08/12/2025

How are you spending Christmas Day 2025?

At Overcoat Media, we're collecting voice notes from around the world to create 'A Very Global Christmas' for BBC Radio 4.

We're asking for people all over the world to send us a short Whatsapp voice note ON XMAS DAY to +44 3700 100 444 with the word 'CHRISTMAS'.

Please share with your friends and relatives around the globe!

Full terms on our website (link in comments).

04/12/2025

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄
At Overcoat Media we're celebrating the festive period by making 'A Very Global Christmas' for BBC Radio 4, and we’re collecting festive stories from around the world.

Whether you’re in Lagos, Lima or Llandudno, we’d love to hear what you're up to and how you're spending Christmas Day 2025.

Send us a WhatsApp voice note ON Christmas Day to +44 3700 100 444 with the word 'CHRISTMAS'.

02/12/2025

Last week our creative director Steven Rajam and producer Meg Elliot attended the Audio Production Awards at the BFI Southbank. Meg was nominated for Best Arts and Culture Producer - she joined us last year as part of the BBC's AudioLab scheme. We worked with her to produce the wonderful 5 part podcast Heart and Stone, which you can hear on right now.

Heart and Stone: Who decides what stories are remembered? Can anyone make a stone circle? And when we talk about old folk rituals and songs, who are the folk we are choosing to remember?

Over five episodes, Meg Elliot meets the people reconnecting with folk traditions, stories and song. We visit a Ceilidh hall in central London on the search for lost folk songs and to a Glasgow housing estate to visit a new ‘ancient’ stone circle. We meet Muslim Hikers, and history seekers in a Welsh valleys community, all in their own way looking to connect with each other, and their past.

Written, produced and presented by Meg Elliot
Executive producer - Steven Rajam
Sound Design and Mixing - Meic Parry
Music - Elin & Carys
Commissioning editor - Khaliq Meer
Artwork - Tom Cunningham
Ep 0 - Katie Hill

03/11/2025

Our new 5 part series Empty Spaces explores the beauty and melancholy of abandoned places that still hold meaning. Each episode invites a poet to inhabit one site of their choosing and breathe imagination, memory, and lyricism back into the surroundings via poetry.

Broadcasting all this week on at 21:45 each evening, and available on (search for "The Essay"):

Liz Berry returns to Selly Oak Library in Birmingham, once kept by her mother, to honour the spirit of stories and belonging.

Jay Hulme steps into a hermit’s cave in Knaresborough, where solitude and faith still echo through moss and stone.

Sean Lìonadh revisits Govan Docks - once alive with shipbuilders, now a haunting map of identity and change.

Zakiya McKenzie explores Jersey’s Les Landes, where the winds remember witch trials and ancestral seas.

Jean Sprackland finds poetry among the ruins of Foxes’ Castle in Somerset, where nature quietly reclaims the walls.

Producer: Sean Allsop

Executive Producer: Leonie Thomas

Sound Mix: Mike Woolley

28/10/2025

Out now on BBC Sounds - Ghost Chapel.

A captivating audio adventure recorded at Carmarthen’s Museum of the Paranormal and Spirituality.

Carys Eleri takes you into the séance room where glass scratches across the spirit board and the cursed Black Eyed Doll watches from the shadows.
With founders Erik and Laura Rowton, Carys explores our fascination with the supernatural and how a former chapel has reopened as a home for mystery and curiosity.

Presented by Carys Eleri
Produced by Jess Gunasekara
Sound Design & Mix by Meic Parry
Executive Producer: Lyndon Jones

An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio Wales

23/10/2025

It was a privilege to attend Prix Europa 2025 🇩🇪

A fortnight ago, Leonie, Steven and Katie travelled to Berlin to present our ten part podcast Facing the Music to the Audio Music category jury, a great opportunity to spend time with producers and makers from across Europe, learning and sharing our production experiences.

Listen to all ten parts of our series on BBC Sounds now, with an all-star cast including Dominic West, Michael Sheen, Kit Harington and Nina Sosanya narrating some of the most remarkable human stories in music. BBC Radio 3

03/10/2025

Fun times at the British Podcast Awards last night.

Our ten part BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 3 series Facing the Music was shortlisted in the Arts and Culture category, and it was great to catch up with (most of) the amazing team that made that happen.

Big well done to all the winners and nominees, and really good to meet and see again lots of our audio industry colleagues. Next stop Berlin for the Prix Europa next week 🙌

Pictured left to right Katie, Amy, Steven, Hannah and Gareth / Katie, Jess, Amy and Steven / Sam Tyler winning with his amazing Sonic Fields podcast / Donut wall 🍩

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23/09/2025

A story of power, propaganda, and survival...

Tikhon Khrennikov was the most powerful and controversial figure in Soviet music. For over four decades, he shaped the sound of the USSR. He was celebrated by Stalin, feared by Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

Journalist and author Lucy Ash uncovers the contradictions of a man who thrived under a system that silenced others. Including contributions from concert pianist Evgeny Kissin, persecuted composer Elena Firsova, and experts Marina Frolova-Walker and Pauline Fairclough.

Listen now to 'The Man Who Played the Kremlin's Tune' on BBC Sounds.

Produced by Katie Hill

An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature

12/09/2025

Adrian Chiles digs into Edward Elgar’s music, his Midlands roots and his Catholic guilt - and finds a kindred spirit with a cracking sense of humour.

Our new documentary, for BBC Radio 4's Illuminated is 'Finding Elgar' and is on - hear it now. You'll never listen to his famous tune 'Land of Hope and Glory' in the same way again...

Expertly produced by fellow Midlander Katie Hill 🎶

Pick of the Week in this week's Radio Times too! 🙌

09/09/2025

As the season draws to a close, we are pleased to offer a special Mindful Mix edition, a 3 hour episode featuring some of the most beautiful and peaceful performances from this year's BBC Proms.

With calming melodies from Ludwig Van Beethoven to Avril Coleridge-Taylor, and many more. Listen and subscribe on .

Skillfully produced by our wonderful Mindful Mix team, James C Taylor & Katie Hill.

And you can get your fix of Mindful Mix every day on Unwind.

08/09/2025

Big thanks to Naomi Alderman and for featuring our series 'Satire and the Stave' as Pick of the Week.

Chris Addison takes listeners on a tour of how composers have used their music to question, parody and challenge power and ideas over the years.

Listen to the series on .

Produced by James C Taylor.

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