Pascal Wyse
Pascal has been involved with podcasting throughout its growth. He is the composer and sound designer for Pushkin Industries Cautionary Tales, which took Gold and Silver in the 2025 Signal Awards for Best Score and Best Sound Design. Most recently he wrote the theme tune for Explosive Lies (Forest/Global), scored The Secret Daughter (Audible) and sound designed and scored Crime Scenes (Audible).
Selected Credits
He has since focused on music composition and sound design, the seeds of which were planted when scoring the Berger & Wyse animation ‘Covert’, for Channel 4, in 2004. Recent scores for television include ‘Nazanin’ (2023) and ‘Ukraine: Life Under Attack’ (2022), both for Channel 4. He has worked on films and animations for the Guardian – including ‘Columbite Tantalite’, a short written and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Other television work includes music for ‘Henry IX’ (UKTV Gold).
Scores for film include Kieron Quirke’s ‘Carvery’ and music/sound design for ‘Framerate’ (ScanLAB, 2022) and ‘The Seven Rituals of Hesitance and Fortitude’ (Splendid Sisters, 2022) and ‘Games Night’, directed by Martin Morrison. He worked as sound designer for the Guardian’s Off the Page season (with the Royal Court) and the newspaper’s film season in collaboration with the Young Vic. Pascal was one of the artists chosen by Touch to provide a soundtrack for the BFI’s Fairy Tales series.
Earlier podcast work includes Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth (Audible/Pushkin), The Crimes of Dorian Gray (Audible/Prodigal, 2024), Ashley vs WWE (Audible/Forest, 2023) Squid Scam (ITV/Audible, 2022), Bad Women (Pushkin, 2022) Hot Money (FT/Pushkin, 2022) and The Messenger (Audible, 2020). For the BBC, he composed music for the drama SteelHeads, directed by John Dryden (Goldhawk) and The Frost Tapes. For the Guardian, productions include Missing in the Amazon.
Pascal has delivered various projects for Audible in Dolby Atmos, and worked in ambisonics for the Desert Botanical Gardens installation Desert Pulse (ScanLAB Projects) in Phonenix, Arizona – a project he also scored and sound designed. Other spatial audio projects include the site-specific theatre/VR show Somnai, produced by dotdot in London, and the Guardian’s VR productions – including Limbo. Pascal’s continuing collaboration with artist Barnaby Barford has resulted in two shows, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London) and Day Trip (Liminal Gallery, Margate). Recent theatre work includes the score for The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Riverside Studios).
Pascal’s recent scores for television include Nazanin (2023) and Ukraine: Life Under Attack (2022), both for Channel 4. He has worked on films and animations for the Guardian – including Columbite Tantalite, a short written and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Other television work includes music for Henry IX (UKTV Gold). Scores for film include Kieron Quirke’s Carvery and music/sound design for Framerate (ScanLAB Projects, 2022) and The Seven Rituals of Hesitance and Fortitude (Splendid Sisters, 2022).
Pascal is passionate about how music and sound design can collaborate – not just with each other, but with all the other components of a story to complete the picture.