Cursed
Podcast, Documentary, Series, 2025
Mixer & Additional Sound Design
Raw x Audible
For Brain Audio
Binaural Mix
Mixer & Additional Sound Design
Raw x Audible
For Brain Audio
Binaural Mix
Cursed is a ten-part true crime podcast produced by Raw TV and released as an Audible Original in September 2024. The series is presented by British-Nigerian journalist Femi Oke and explores how ancient Nigerian rituals and beliefs in juju were used to lure modern women into human trafficking and sex slavery.
APAs from AudioUK 2025
Gold Winner – True Crime Category: Awarded to the production team at RAW / Audible
Gold Winner – Best Presenter/Host: Won by journalist Femi Oke
Bronze Winner - Best Sound Design
APAs from AudioUK 2025
Gold Winner – True Crime Category: Awarded to the production team at RAW / Audible
Gold Winner – Best Presenter/Host: Won by journalist Femi Oke
Bronze Winner - Best Sound Design
About:
Simon is a sound designer, dubbing mixer and field recordist. His work spans across fiction, documentary, animation, commercials and podcasts. He graduated from the MA in Sound Design for Film at the National Film & Television School in 2023.
Simon’s approach to sound design is always in service of the storytelling. His ambition is to weave his soundtrack into the fabric of every project. As such he is dedicated to field recording during production, collaborating across departments and is keen to experiment with new workflows and techniques.
In 2023 Simon was awarded the MPSE Verne Fields Golden Reel for Outstanding Sound Editing in a Student Film for his design and mix of Dive.
In 2024 Crab Day, which Simon was the Sound Supervisor for, won the BAFTA for the Best British Animated Short as well as the RTS Award for Best Postgraduate Animation, where Simon’s sound design was also recognised for an RTS Craft Award.
He has also sound designed films that have won at the British Animation Awards and been nominated for Young Arrows and Best Short at London Film Festival.
Alongside his film work Simon is a regular mixer for the Financial Times podcasts and has worked with brands such as Google Pixel, Channel 4, Burt’s Bees, Herd and beyond.
He is proudly an assosiate artist of Brain Audio and a BAFTA Connect Member.
Simon is a sound designer, dubbing mixer and field recordist. His work spans across fiction, documentary, animation, commercials and podcasts. He graduated from the MA in Sound Design for Film at the National Film & Television School in 2023.
Simon’s approach to sound design is always in service of the storytelling. His ambition is to weave his soundtrack into the fabric of every project. As such he is dedicated to field recording during production, collaborating across departments and is keen to experiment with new workflows and techniques.
In 2023 Simon was awarded the MPSE Verne Fields Golden Reel for Outstanding Sound Editing in a Student Film for his design and mix of Dive.
In 2024 Crab Day, which Simon was the Sound Supervisor for, won the BAFTA for the Best British Animated Short as well as the RTS Award for Best Postgraduate Animation, where Simon’s sound design was also recognised for an RTS Craft Award.
He has also sound designed films that have won at the British Animation Awards and been nominated for Young Arrows and Best Short at London Film Festival.
Alongside his film work Simon is a regular mixer for the Financial Times podcasts and has worked with brands such as Google Pixel, Channel 4, Burt’s Bees, Herd and beyond.
He is proudly an assosiate artist of Brain Audio and a BAFTA Connect Member.