The Sink: A Sleep Aid BBC Sounds
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A new comedy-horror from Natasha Hodgson (Kill The Beast, Beef and Dairy Network, Tom Neenan is Not All Men).
We’ll play your dreams back to you, so you can see yourself clearly. Sleep clean.
Starring Alice Lowe, Celeste Dring, David Elms, Jason Forbes and Natasha Hodgson
Written by Natasha Hodgson
Produced by Andy Goddard for BBC Studios
Music by David Cumming
Artwork by Richard Littler
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Session Six: When We Don’t Come Back
Thank you for completing Sink treatment.
You’ve done so well.
We highly recommend listening to this and all the episodes from the beginning and on headphones or a good set of speakers.
The Sink is written by Natasha Hodgson.
It is produced by Andy Goddard.
It stars Alice Lowe, Jason Forbes, Celeste Dring, David Elms and Natasha Hodgson.
The music is written by David Cumming.
The script editor was Gareth Gwynn.
It is a BBC Studios Production.
About the team:
Andy Goddard is a podcast producer and sound designer responsible for many hit podcasts & radio programs including Wooden Overcoats, Armstrong and Miller: Time Ghost and A very John Kearns Christmas.
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian and singer. Her TV writing credits include the BAFTA award-winning Amazing World Of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventuretime’s Pendelton Ward. Her other performance credits include appearances on Newsjack Unplugged, Tom Neenan is Not All Men, Tech Tech Boom and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and The Beef and Dairy Network podcast. She has also written and starred an award winning musical in Operation Mincemeat and is a founding member of award winning comedy theatre company Kill the Beast. -
Session Five: Real Laser Gun Action
Thank you for continuing Sink treatment. According to our records this is your last chance.
New symptoms include:
you don’t have to find out.
This week’s treatment: Insist
We highly recommend listening to this and all the episodes from the beginning and on headphones or a good set of speakers.
The Sink is written by Natasha Hodgson
It is produced by Andy Goddard
It stars Alice Lowe, Jason Forbes, Celeste Dring, David Elms and Natasha Hodgson.
The music is written by David Cumming.
The script editor was Gareth Gwynn.
It is a BBC Studios Production.
About the team:
Andy Goddard is a podcast producer and sound designer responsible for many hit podcasts & radio programs including Wooden Overcoats, Armstrong and Miller: Time Ghost and A very John Kearns Christmas.
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian and singer. Her TV writing credits include the BAFTA award-winning Amazing World Of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventuretime’s Pendelton Ward. Her other performance credits include appearances on Newsjack Unplugged, Tom Neenan is Not All Men, Tech Tech Boom and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and The Beef and Dairy Network podcast. She has also written and starred an award winning musical in Operation Mincemeat and is a founding member of award winning comedy theatre company Kill the Beast. -
Session Four: Balanced for Eggs
Thank you for continuing Sink treatment. According to our records you are being chased.
New symptoms include:
You
Are
Being
Chased
This week’s treatment: Interrupt
We highly recommend listening to this and all the episodes from the beginning and on headphones or a good set of speakers.
The Sink is written by Natasha Hodgson
It is produced by Andy Goddard
It stars Alice Lowe, Jason Forbes, Celeste Dring, David Elms and Natasha Hodgson.
The music is written by David Cumming.
The script editor was Gareth Gwynn.
It is a BBC Studios Production.
About the team:
Andy Goddard is a podcast producer and sound designer responsible for many hit podcasts & radio programs including Wooden Overcoats, Armstrong and Miller: Time Ghost and A very John Kearns Christmas.
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian and singer. Her TV writing credits include the BAFTA award-winning Amazing World Of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventuretime’s Pendelton Ward. Her other performance credits include appearances on Newsjack Unplugged, Tom Neenan is Not All Men, Tech Tech Boom and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and The Beef and Dairy Network podcast. She has also written and starred an award winning musical in Operation Mincemeat and is a founding member of award winning comedy theatre company Kill the Beast. -
Session Three: Dip Day
Thank you for continuing Sink treatment. According to our records you have been “worrying about corners."
New symptoms include:
- Round and round hands
- Fetching dirt
- Thumps
This week's treatment: Follow the trail.
We highly recommend listening to this and all the episodes from the beginning and on headphones or a good set of speakers.
The Sink is written by Natasha Hodgson.
It is produced by Andy Goddard.
It stars Alice Lowe, Jason Forbes, Celeste Dring, David Elms and Natasha Hodgson.
The music is written by David Cumming.
The script editor was Gareth Gwynn.
It is a BBC Studios Production.
About the team:
Andy Goddard is a podcast producer and sound designer responsible for many hit podcasts & radio programs including Wooden Overcoats, Armstrong and Miller: Time Ghost and A Very John Kearns Christmas.
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian and singer. Her TV writing credits include the BAFTA award-winning Amazing World Of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventuretime’s Pendelton Ward. Her other performance credits include appearances on Newsjack Unplugged, Tom Neenan is Not All Men, Tech Tech Boom and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and The Beef and Dairy Network podcast. She has also written and starred an award winning musical in Operation Mincemeat and is a founding member of award winning comedy theatre company Kill the Beast. -
Session Two: Kevin Boots
Thank you for continuing Sink treatment. According to our records you have been “getting actually a lot worse”. New symptoms include:
Whispering ear
Clenches
Bending Incorrect
Callous attitude to wrists
This week’s treatment: Deep Dream Investigation
We highly recommend listening to this and all the episodes from the beginning and on headphones or a good set of speakers.
The Sink is written by Natasha Hodgson
It is produced by Andy Goddard
It stars Alice Lowe, Jason Forbes, Celeste Dring, David Elms and Natasha Hodgson.
The music is written by David Cumming.
The script editor was Gareth Gwynn.
It is a BBC Studios Production.
About the team:
Andy Goddard is a podcast producer and sound designer responsible for many hit podcasts & radio programs including Wooden Overcoats, Armstrong and Miller: Time Ghost and A very John Kearns Christmas.
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian and singer. Her TV writing credits include the BAFTA award-winning Amazing World Of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventuretime’s Pendelton Ward. Her other performance credits include appearances on Newsjack Unplugged, Tom Neenan is Not All Men, Tech Tech Boom and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and The Beef and Dairy Network podcast. She has also written and starred an award winning musical in Operation Mincemeat and is a founding member of award winning comedy theatre company Kill the Beast. -
Session One: Wet Ham Slice
New subject beginning Sink treatments. Subject has been having an “absolute full shocker” of a year. Symptoms include:
Sleeping badly
Difficult toes
Overwhelming dread
Creep
Blinks too big
Suggested treatment: 6 week course, beginning with session one: Initial Dream Investigation.
We highly recommend listening to this and all the episodes from the beginning and on headphones or a good set of speakers.
The Sink is written by Natasha Hodgson
It is produced by Andy Goddard
It stars Alice Lowe, Jason Forbes, Celeste Dring, David Elms and Natasha Hodgson.
The music is written by David Cumming.
The script editor was Gareth Gwynn.
It is a BBC Studios Production.
About the team:
Andy Goddard is a podcast producer and sound designer responsible for many hit podcasts & radio programs including Wooden Overcoats, Armstrong and Miller: Time Ghost and A Very John Kearns Christmas.
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian and singer. Her TV writing credits include the BAFTA award-winning Amazing World Of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward. Her other performance credits include appearances on Newsjack Unplugged, Tom Neenan is Not All Men, Tech Tech Boom and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and The Beef and Dairy Network podcast. She has also written and starred in award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat and is a founding member of award-winning comedy theatre company Kill the Beast.
Customer Reviews
Weird and very dreamlike
This is how I would imagine a person sorting through someone’s dreams accidentally spilled them all over the floor, and then just kinda mashed them into one film thing. Very good.
Brilliant BBC
Magnificent as almost all of the podcasts I’ve listened to from the BBC have been! Terrifically creepy yet strangely calming. Keep ‘em coming!
Disjointed gibberish
Two episodes in, and it’s failing to grab me. The premise seems to be that we are hearing an audio log of someone’s dreams as part of a sleep aid program. There’s ominous overtones that the narrator is not well intentioned, but the bulk of the content seems to be directionless improv material that is neither funny nor scary.