Polly Thomas is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading audio producer-directors. Her award-winning work has explored the potential of the medium, including location-based recording, international co-production, community activism and simultaneous live relay. She works in live and broadcast performance as writer, producer and director, most prominently with Thomas Carter Projects, an international media and performance company which she co-founded with Gary Carter.

COMING UP

Quite a few nominations in the British Audio Awards aka The Speakies 2025….Best new original drama Restless Dreams by Dan Rebellato, Best performance Henry Goodman and Best ensemble. Plus Best audio dramatisaton for Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens dramatised by Dan Rebellato, Best performance Bettrys Jones and Best ensemble.

Restless Dreams was a Naked Production for BBC Radio 4, Our Mutual Friend was a Thomas Carter Projects production for BBC Radio 4.

Both dramas produced by Polly Thomas.

BECOMING MEG DASHWOOD
AUDIBLE / RELEASE 6th OCTOBER 2025
— produced by Polly Thomas

Executive produced by, and starring, Emma Thompson, Becoming Meg Dashwood picks up where Sense and Sensibility left off. A bold imagining of what it might have meant to rewrite the rule book in 19th century England.

Marriage is not for Margaret Dashwood. Where others see duty, Margaret sees entrapment. And rage.

But when an invitation from family friend Mrs Jennings hurls her into the chaotic heart of Covent Garden, Margaret discovers an intoxicating world beyond afternoon tea and polite society. Here she meets three women who live unapologetically: Nelly, an impulsive actress; Hester, a witch who works in the textile factory; and Inge, a sex worker who loves money and knows exactly how to get it. Here, Margaret’s rage is celebrated, along with her musical talents, and in their fierce company she is reborn as Meg: artist, and woman of hidden fires.

Over the years, Meg’s feelings for Nelly – tender, electric, terrifying – begin to deepen. How does one fall in love, when that love has no name?

Starring Emma Thompson, Erin Doherty, Naomi Ackie, Liz Carr, Jessica Gunning, Paterson Joseph, Golda Rosheuvel, Greg Wise, Hedi Honert and Imelda Staunton. Plus a full ensemble cast starring Alex Austin, Robyn Holdaway, , Rebecca Humphries, Gordon Kennedy, Clare Lawrence Moody, Ashley McGuire, Timothy Renouf, Sam Swann, Delilah Tahiri, Harry Trevaldwyn, Harley Viveash, Rose Alban Davies, Martha Bobroff and Chloe Raphael.

Featuring a dynamic new score by Natasha Khan, known as Bat for Lashes and written by Rebecca Humphries.

Produced by Polly Thomas / directed by Jo Tyabji / production manager Darren Spruce / sound design Olga Reed

— a Thomas Carter Projects production for Audible
https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Becoming-Meg-Dashwood/dp/B0FKHQTG3V

BLEAK HOUSE
AUDIBLE / RELEASE 26 SEPTEMBER 2024
— directed by Polly Thomas and Jo Tyabji

Charles Dickens’ classic revisited. London. A city drowning in fog. A man with no name dies above a strange junkshop. Threads of mist and intrigue weave around a court case with no resolution, linking great country houses with the lowest slums in the city, mingling the high-born with a boy who sweeps the filthy streets (Lenny Rush), enshrouding devious plots and sudden murder, bringing together two extraordinary women – Lady Dedlock (Thandiwe Newton) and Esther Summerson (Ambika Mod) – who apparently have nothing whatsoever in common, yet find themselves inextricably linked.

The last of Audible’s trilogy of Dickens dramatisations concludes with a dramatic and atmospheric finale. Dramatised by Marty Ross, executive produced by Sam Mendes, original score by Dan Gillespie-Sells and sound design by Joe Richardson. Cast inlcudes Thandiwe Newton, Ambika Mod, Mackenzie Crook, Mark Strong, Lenny Rush, Mark Gatiss, Adeel Akhtar, Miriam Margolyes, Sophie Stone, Philip Glenister, Alex Austin, Sule Rimi, Jonathan Slinger, Saffron Coomber, Jonathan Case, Mat Fraser and more.

For full credits and to pre order, go to www.audible.co.uk