The Sink: A Sleep Aid is a 2020 comedy-horror podcast from BBC Sounds. It was written by Natasha Hodgson and featured vocal performances from Alice Lowe, Celeste Dring, David Elms, Jason Forbes, and Natasha Hodgson. David Cumming composed and performed the soundtrack.
Episodes +NumberTitleRelease dateRef1"Session One: Wet Ham Slice"28 October 20202"Session Two: Kevin Boots"4 November 20203"Session Three: Dip Day"11 November 20204"Session Four: Balanced for Eggs"18 November 20205"Session Five: Real Laser Gun Action"25 November 20206"Session Six: When We Don't Come Back"2 December 2020
Critical reception "The Sink: A Sleep Aid" was generally critically acclaimed. The Stylist described it as a "wonderfully weird genre-bending delight," and The Week noted the quality of the sound design. The Guardian reviewed the show multiple times, describing it as "deliciously bizarre" and "brilliantly unsettling", praising the "dreamlike quality" of the prose and the voice acting acumen of the narrator (Alice Lowe). The podcast has also been reviewed by SFX magazine, the Simplecast official blog, and The Cambridge Geek.
The series was nominated for the 2021 BBC Audio Drama Award for "Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama". and was ranked No. 14 in the "20 Best Podcasts of 2020" by The Guardian.
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