The Cambridge Geek

August 2020 Audio Drama, Fiction and RPG Podcast Debut Releases

Every month, there are a large number of new audio drama and fiction podcasts released. These monthly lists collate everything I can find that has released an Ep1 in its dedicated fiction RSS feed for the relevant month. Feel free to shout in the comments if you've got more information or corrections and I'll update with anything I'm missing.

And tell me which ones I should be listening to. What have you enjoyed this month?

Want to submit your podcast to one of these release lists? Use the dedicated contact page.

8/1: Fireside Folktales
(Dramatised - Fantasy)
Fireside Folktales is a collaborative show that takes myths and legends from around the world and breathes life back into them, transforming them into single-season audio fiction performances. Each story is created by a different writer. Do you have a story that you want to tell? Get in touch with us! We’re looking for stories from all over the world, especially myths from regions such as Africa, South Asia, Scandinavia, Russia, South America, and more! Fireside Folktales is here to help you tell your story, and to make mythology queer again.
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8/1: Glass Letters
(Fiction - Fantasy)
Glass Letters is a limited series audio fiction story about loneliness, connection, and letters in bottles. Brought to you from an island in the middle of nowhere, and created by Anna Godfrey.
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8/1: New Light Radio Dramas
(Dramatised - Anthology)
With the shutdown of live audience events, New Light Theater Project has decided to produce our very own Radio Dramas -- storytelling that utilizes dialogue, music, and sound effects to imagine characters and story.
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8/1: The Embers of Eden
(Dramatised - Science fiction)
Rival officers Sumner and Hewitt have found themselves trapped inside the mysterious ship which destroyed their own. Finding the truth about its origin may be just as important as staying alive. They'll have to set aside their personal conflict to withstand alien attacks, killer drones, the vacuum of space, and creatures which defy nature. Is the priority to escape or thwart a new danger to all human worlds? What secrets still burn like embers? Each episode of this science fiction adventure switches between the perspectives of Hewitt and Sumner as they fight for survival and answers.
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8/2: B-Roll
(RPG - Fanfiction)
B-Roll is named as a pun for its ancillary nature to B Cubed (https://anchor.fm/b-cubed), similarly named for the hosts' last names starting with B, and for the fact that it's an actual play D&D podcast. You know, like, rolling dice.
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8/2: Merryweather
(Dramatised - Thriller)
Betty is a journalist who gets an interview with a man who murdered 21 people in a mass shooting. He claims that Merryweather, the international candy manufacturer made him do it. Betty starts to realize that there could be more to his claims than she originally thought. From then on she is entangled in a very dangerous conspiracy where she is forced to question who the true monsters among us are.
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8/2: No Small Rolls
(RPG - Fantasy)
Join our merry band of actors for a D&D campaign where there are ‘No Small Rolls’, just battles, buddies and beverages! Dungeon Master David Knight ushers his players Ben Galpin, Chris Watts, Darrel Bailey, Grace Kelly Miller and Vicky Gaskin through a home-brewed world full of stories, secrets and silliness. Episodes are all underscored with epic original music by David Knight.
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8/2: Patchwork Radio Theatre
(Dramatised - Anthology)
Performing audio dramas and radio plays from various genres ranging from horror and comedy to family friendly and musicals.
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8/2: RPG Beanpod
(RPG - Science fiction)
The Beanpod is an actual play RPG podcast hosted by four beans covering many stories. The beans are Snow, Galaxy, Draki, and Rook. Bi-weekly(ish) on Saturdays.
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8/2: The Pink Nightmares
(Dramatised - Anthology)
Anthology series of audible nightmares. Fictional short stories. Very real scenarios.
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8/2: Voyage of the August
(Dramatised - Historical)
A tale of queer love and mutiny on the high seas! The Voyage of the August chronicles the final voyage of a merchant ship bound for England in 1717, whose crew takes their fate into their own hands. This work of historical fiction is presented as a serial radio drama, to be released in nine weekly installments.
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8/3: Forever and a Day
(Dramatised - Soap opera)
Forever And A Day follows the trials and tribulations of the Harper, Bennett, and Marshall families, as they face life’s complexities head-on in the fictional town of Augustus, Illinois. The Harpers and Bennetts are butting heads, as the gubernatorial race in Illinois heats up; and brings with it multiple twists and turns that could end up destroying both families! Meanwhile, the Marshalls face new challenges, as they try to continue their almost outdated formula of how to run their long-standing magazine, The Magnifier. Forever And A Day is about the bonds of humanity and the psychology of modern day, socially relevant topics, that are seen through the many fictional citizens of a bustling, midwest city.
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8/3: Pulp Fury Radio
(Dramatised - Anthology)
Audio plays for a new age. Pulp Fury Radio is a podcast anthology series featuring a range of genres such as Sci-fi, Noir, Mystery & Fantasy. Giving our audience something new, by bringing back something old.
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8/3: The Electronic Lover
(Dramatised - Musical)
The Electronic Lover is a serial podcast opera created by San Francisco Bay Area composer Lisa Mezzacappa and Brooklyn-based writer Beth Lisick. The story is set in chatrooms at the dawn of the Internet, in the moment when we first invited computers into the most intimate aspects of our lives. Season 1 follows a tech-curious cabal of young women, isolated and constrained in their own lives, who connect across vast distances to create a thrilling new virtual community.
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8/3: The Patron Saint of Suicides
(Dramatised - Crime/Mystery)
Haven Otomo spends her spare time saving people from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. She also owns a private suicide hotline. Possessed with unnatural powers of persuasion, she’s always been good at talking people in and out of things. When a rash of suicides hits the city, a detective reaches out for her help on the investigation, and her insight into why people kill themselves. When the crime becomes more complicated, she must question the people she trusts most, and whether they are involved.
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8/3: The Shadow of the Hook
(Fiction - Fantasy)
Wolfgang Wimmers reads The Shadow of the Hook - a fantasy novel for children 8+ and for those few adults that haven't forgotten that magic (and mayhem) truly exist... in the hidden. A most daring adventure; join Oskar and his sister, Rosa as they help two new friends - Ash (a broken-winged fairy) and Quilby (a young gnomeling wizard) escape from their pursuer, the Grobble - a crazed and vicious troll with only one thing on his mind... to make fairy and gnomeling stew!! May contain scary elements, heroic bravery and traces of nuts.
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8/3: The Theatron Project
(Dramatised - Anthology)
A new type of performing arts podcast focused on creativity, community, and content. We provide various programming from new adaptations, revamped older plays, new work, experiments, drunken shenanigans, and more!
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8/3: The Vanishing Act
(Dramatised - Historical)
The Vanishing Act is globetrotting farce about a German magic enthusiast, an American conman in Paris, an unfortunately-named engineer, a disappearing French magician, and a duck. A Rambling Absurdity in 12(ish) Parts.
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8/4: Heavy Metal Presents: WonderWerk
(Fiction - Anthology)
Heavy Metal Magazine’s Graphic Audio Podcast, features immersive sound design & Hollywood quality production in all new mind-bending stories set in the thrilling worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror.
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8/4: Neon Shadows: A Noir Tale
(Dramatised - Crime/Mystery)
Neon Shadows is a noir crime thriller centered around private investigator Frank Dixon solving the dark secrets of a city in turmoil.
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8/4: The Quarantine Plays
(Dramatised - Anthology)
When Coronavirus hit the United States, The Merry Beggars launched a contest for 10-minute radio plays responding to the theme of "quarantine." We received over 120 submissions from playwrights around the world. While we can't produce all of them, we've chosen twelve original scripts to bring to you.
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8/4: The Streets of Avalon: The Bleak Testament
(RPG - Fantasy)
An actual play podcast following a group of protagonists that they try to survive in The Isles, a poor and neglected neighborhood in the fantasy city of Avalon. Cultists, guilds, criminals, and monsters hide around the corners, but the most dangerous thing lurking in the shadows might just be the secrets. A D&D 5e actual play using The Streets of Avalon campaign setting from Brett Bloczynski and Encoded Designs. Starring Robert Everson, Eric Bonz, John Arcadian, Brandon Barnes, and Eileen Barnes, with Jared Rascher as the game facilitator.
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8/7: Assisted
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
Assisted follows the story of Rob, a newly divorced father who is struggling with suicidal tendencies.
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8/7: Gallivanting Goblins
(Dramatised - Fantasy)
In the small town of Frome, Somerset at the end of the 19th Century, a young girl called Flora embarks on an unexpected adventure through fairy land. Written by Alexandra Ricou with music and lyrics by Danielle Sharp, in collaboration with Beth Fiducia-Brookes. Gallivanting Goblins was conceived as part of Wassail Theatre Company's Connecting Communities project in response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Gallivanting Goblins was originally recorded in August 2020.
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8/7: Razzmatazz Radio Theater
(Dramatised - Anthology)
Mostly comedy. "If it's a Razzmatazz Radio Theater show, we double dare you to listen." With G.E. Masana, Jack West, Karen Corrado and the Razzmatazz Players.
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8/7: RPGs Like To Party
(RPG - Anthology)
Friends coming together to play TTRPGs via Discord and Roll20. Call of Cthulhu, World of Darkness, Pathfinder, Dungeons and Dragons, Mutants and Masterminds and more.
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8/8: Apocalipstick: The Podcast at the End of the World
(Dramatised - Post-apocalypse)
How do YOU think the world ended? Climate change? Virus outbreak? Nuclear War? AI uprising? A good old biblical armageddon?What if we told you it was… all of the above?Join your hosts Berry Blast and Cherry Bomb as they try fervently to connect with a world that literally ghosts them.
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8/8: Huld County, VA
(Fiction - Horror)
Huld County, situated in the southern stretch of the state of Virginia, has been forgotten for decades. Only now does any knowledge of this place come to light, its history that was expunged in 1992, and the horrors that occurred there... Huld County, VA is a horror anthology series set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Following the lives of people impacted by mysterious events, come along and witness the unknown made known.
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8/8: The Lost Adventurers
(RPG - Fantasy)
Four guys playing D&D together to tell a cool story.
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8/9: Porcelain Theatre Co.
(Dramatised - Anthology)
Porcelain Theatre was founded by A.E Quinn and Diarmuid O'Dwyer to create theatre that focuses on giving representation to the marginalised sections of our community. Our pieces often focus on tabooed subject matter. Giving voices to those who are often overlooked.

8/10: Anyway, What Else?
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
Anyway, What Else? listens in on the lives of four millennials who are approaching breaking point. They have never met, yet they share so much in common. Like reading a diary over the author’s shoulder, these audio journals reveal their confessions, anxieties, loves and losses. Is Jess a date-aholic or just serious about love? Is Lucia a star teacher, or does she give too much? Is Jamie pushing away his boyfriend in the pursuit of an unachievable dream? Is Sandy about to explode? Anyway, What Else will have you laughing, cringing and crying.
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8/10: In Another Room
(Dramatised - Horror)
The Violet Hour presents - IN ANOTHER ROOM. Adapted from E3W Production's ground-breaking, LA-based immersive show of the same name, IN ANOTHER ROOM is a collection of interlocking ghost stories, each one taking place in a different room of a notoriously haunted house. These ghost stories span the entire history of the mysterious home—from its troubled construction in the 1870s to today—and recount the tragedies of the various souls that have lived, and died, within.
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8/10: Keystone Horror Podcast
(Fiction - Horror)
The Keystone Horror Podcast is dedicated to telling original stories of strange and unusual events, not gore heavy descriptions or content written just to gross you out. Each story is a standalone experience that does not require you to listen to previous or future episodes. Every episode is based in Pennsylvania, pulling from local legends, historical events, and personal experience.
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8/10: Nowhere, On Air
(Dramatised - Urban fantasy)
Semi-late night community radio broadcasts from a strange little town in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta (aka, not just the middle of nowhere, but nowhere itself). Nothing ever happens here. Certainly nothing weird. Why would you even suggest that? If you like mysteries, conspiracies, the absurd, Canadians, and what is probably the podcast equivalent of a "b" movie, Braedon, Alberta might be the place for you! New episode every 10th and 21st. Listen close. Don't wander off. It's a long way to get where you're going. Especially out here.
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8/10: Shelf Lives
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
Shelf Lives is a series of short, original audio plays exploring the fictional lives of the different people we all knew and loved during lockdown, in the one social setting we grew used to for many, many months: the supermarket. Each episode follows a different character in the same shop, on the same day, at exactly the same time, as they get to grips with both private crises and one very public pandemic. These are short, sharp ten minute insights into people’s lives - plays in podcast form.
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8/10: Tales from the Rusty Speeder
(RPG - Fanfiction)
An interactive Actual Play podcast using Fantasy Flight Game's Star Wars: Edge of the Empire rule set.
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8/11: Donald August Versus the Land of Flowers
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Donald August Versus the Land of Flowers is a 5-episode fiction comedy podcast. A boy and his summer nanny set out to play detective in South Florida and instead stumble into a supernatural – and sinister – palm plant. The show follows Donnie, a 12-year-old obsessed with playing private investigator, and his reluctant, teenage summer nanny Lex. You'll also hear from Donnie's retired uncle, the future third female president of the United States of America, and a librarian who didn't ask for any of this.
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8/12: Plot Hooks Adventures
(RPG - Fantasy)
Plot Hooks is a podcast focused on the arts of narrative and collaborative storytelling in the world's premier roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. (A discussion show that started doing an actual play.)
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8/12: Power Out
(Dramatised - Thriller)
What happens when the power system we’re hooked up to fails? A new thriller about power and protest on a dying planet. Starring Vinnie Heaven and written by Sarah Woods.
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8/12: Shark-Man the Podcast
(Dramatised - Comedy)
IMPORTANT! Start this story from Episode 1. Shark-Man is a 9 part series. It tells the story of Dewey Dorsalfine and his journey into shark magic and discovering his true shark nature on the Oregon Coast. This is a whimsical fantasy story meant for the whole family. It involves silly language and magical thinking.
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8/12: Short of Breath Podcast
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
The limited-run narrative podcast series Short of Breath is a small-scale socioeconomic thriller focusing on problems relevant to contemporary working-class American life. While rooted in real human interactions, the series has the tenor, structure and tempo of a melodrama and thriller. Set in the days leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Short of Breath follows Olissa, a single mother and recovering addict in her early 30s who loses her factory job in the series’ first scene. It’s terrible luck and even worse timing. This event, happening at the end of a shift on a Friday, starts a ticking clock for Olissa, as a judge refuses to postpone a custody hearing for her young daughter scheduled just three days away. It’s an all-or-nothing, last-chance situation for Olissa. She has only that weekend to find a decent job and clean up her act once and for all, or risk losing her daughter.
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8/12: Sinister Shenanigans in Space
(RPG - Science fiction)
Welcome to Crits and Company, where a group of friends come together and weave an elaborate tale. Our group has decided to try our hand at sharing our tabletop role-playing adventures with the world. Our epic saga, Sinister Shenanigans in Space, starts right here. We hope you enjoy it, rough edges and all.
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8/12: Theatre of the Electric Mouth
(Dramatised - Anthology)
Theatre of the Electric Mouth is an international community of artists, collaborating remotely to create absurd and literary audio dramas.
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8/12: Welcome to Amara
(RPG - Fantasy)
Welcome to Amara is a sword and sorcery high production dramatic retelling podcast of a play by post Dungeon World campaign. We are Sean "the GM" and Andy "along for the ride", a GM/Player duo exploring the unique high fantasy world of Amara. It's a realm with carefully crafted lore to uncover, featuring a growing cast of diverse characters of beasts and fast friends. Eyien is where we begin, it’s the place to be for security and for power in Amara. Within Eyien resides a group of soldiers and mages known as “The Coterie”. Along the way we discover and breath in the city of Eyien, uncover secrets that threaten the kingdom. Relax and immerse yourself into our world as we piece together the mysterious forces surrounding this grand city of opportunity and potential.
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8/13: The Art of Ambition
(Fiction - Crime/Mystery)
In the city that never sleeps, the next opportunity is right around the corner... The Art of Ambition is a modern noir-esque series told from the perspective of a New Yorker with his ear to the ground and a knack for turning a situation to his advantage. Written by Mark L. Burrow, starring Joshua Manning, directed and edited by Thomas Mitchells, theme tune by Barrie Bignold. The Art of Ambition was expanded from a monologue - The Art of a Doorman - originally produced by Natalie Winter for Ragged Foils’ Ragged Scratch Podcast.
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8/13: The Legion Tapes
(Dramatised - Science fiction)
The Legion Tapes are selections from an archive chronicling the world after the end. The alien Legion takes over worlds and absorbs the sentients of those worlds. They've assimilated eleven species so far, and humanity is next on their list. But even after the nations of the world fall, and even after being reduced to communicating solely by radio, humanity's fighting back. Season 1 (subtitled The Archivist) begins four years and fifteen days after the Legion's arrival on Earth. Normally content to listen, record, and edit tapes for the Archive, Owl finds herself drawn into more and more danger after a mysterious car brings the Legion to her door.
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8/13: The Spectrumverse
(Fiction - Superhero)
Everyone wants to be a superhero when they are a kid. Billy was no different. When he was growing up, he idolised metropolis man and the other superheroes from his home town of Haverford. After a night unlike any other, Billy is forever changed and gains the power to control light.
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8/13: Theatrephonic
(Dramatised - Anthology)
We bring together professional actors to perform brand new plays. New drama and comedy published every fortnight.
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8/14: Arcane Archives
(RPG - Fantasy)
Just a Double AA podcast trying to earn our third A. A weekly D&D 5e actual play podcast!
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8/14: Can You Hear Us?
(Dramatised - Science fiction)
Hello and welcome to Can You Hear Us, an audio drama following several survivors after a mandatory nationwide quarantine is put in place from the government, only for the virus to mutate by unknown means. Causing those infected to turn on those around them. Spreading the virus even more. Before long world leaders surround the united states with warships, forcing isolation. These Stories are an work of fiction, and are not for the faint of heart. These includes loud sounds and violence, and some adult content. Consumer Discretion is advised.
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8/14: Cryptid Paranormal Investigators
(Fiction - Horror)
CPI (Cryptid Paranormal Investigators) is an Indie-Horror podcast made to simulate early 40's radio shows. This story draws its inspiration of monsters from wide areas of the internet such as The Slender Man, The Rake and many more. Zeke Battson was accused for the murder of his family at the age of 14. Together with the help of his new found friends Francesca and June, they must travel to U.S encountering strange paranormal creatures in hopes of finding the one that murdered Zeke's family.
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8/14: Hardboiled
(Dramatised - Crime/Mystery)
Meet radio's hottest new detective - Jack Cassidy, PI! She may be a dame, but she's as tough and hard-bitten as the best in the biz. In thrilling weekly instalments, you can follow Jack's adventures as she matches wits with gangsters and grifters, bootleggers and bolsheviks, fascists and femme fatales. Welcome to the mean streets of Edmonton, 1936. The prairies will never be quite the same...
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8/14: Rogue Waves
(Dramatised - Thriller)
2025. As a string of attacks envelop the world, associates of Rogue Waves want to find the answers. But new developments threaten to plunge the world into chaos.
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8/14: Summit Theatre Group
(Dramatised - Historical)
Done in the style of the radio plays from the early 20th Century, A Candle Against the Dark tells the story of one family’s experience with polio in 1942. In addition, the stories of others who were affected by the disease — patients and doctors, parents and nurses — recall a time in our history when we were helpless against a seemingly invincible foe. We hope it becomes a memorial to all those who have worked so hard to achieve near-total elimination of polio from the world...
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8/14: The Boston Project Podcast
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
First season: The Usual Unusual is a scrappy and quaint bookstore where Boston’s LGBTQ+ community has gathered to shop, organize, and flirt since the 70’s. When the store’s charismatic founder Penn announces his retirement, neurotic staff-member Charlie persuades him to pass leadership on, rather than close the store. The staff’s efforts to unite a fractured community under one banner – or simply coordinate a weekly reading night — stoke generational disputes about identity, community, and trauma, and lead to fraught and hilarious results.
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8/15: Heirs of the Pandavas
(Fiction - Fantasy)
Several centuries have passed since the great Battle of Kurukshetra. The tales of valour and bravery and the triumph of good over evil from that time of gods and mighty warriors are just that - tales. Stories parents tell their children to instil bravery in them for they live in a cruel world. No avatar protects the lands of Bharat, as evil in the form of demons, sorcerers, bandits and despotic rulers and all manners of creatures that dwell in the darkness of hell are unleashed upon its innocent denizens. 2 souls walk this hell on earth. A brother and a sister, a warrior monk and a ranger, born in the lineage of Shatanika, one of the sons of the mighty Pandavas. They are on a quest to erase a curse upon their family. Nothing about this adventure will be easy.
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8/16: Fantastique
(Fiction - Anthology)
Stories of Wonder, Dread, and Hope.
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8/16: Papal Aspirations
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Pope Pius XIII is dead. Accident? Plucky reporter Meredith Blanc-Schwartz isn't so sure, so she makes her way to Rome to ask the Vatican’s very holy men some very uncomfortable questions. (Voiced entirely by two young ingenues / novice voice actresses.)
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8/16: Shifts
(Fiction - Urban fantasy)
Dahlia finds herself alone in a strange but beautiful world, a place where she is the only inhabitant and there are no indications of where she is or why. And she's fine with it! Time to explore.
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8/17: Metamorphosis
(Fiction - Science fiction)
Metamorphosis charts the progress of a fictional global pandemic in Canada’s largest city through three fictional diaries. These audio-journals - from a 13-year old girl (Lucretia); a 30-year-old woman (Kerri); and an 86-year old senior (Nella) - are funny, intimate, and often fantastical.

8/17: Quantum Paradox
(Dramatised - Cyberpunk)
Quantum Paradox is a 21st-century audio drama, released as a weekly podcast. Somewhere like here, sometime like now but far below the surface, lie strange and supernatural contradictions. If you think everything looks normal, look closer.
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8/17: Silent Hill
(Fiction - Horror)
Silent hill is a psychological horror. The story follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the mysterious town of Silent Hill. Stumbling upon a cult conducting a ritual to revive a deity it worships, Harry discovers his daughter's true origin.
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8/17: The Path Down
(Dramatised - Superhero)
It’s freshman year of college. Vanessa Ortega is a telepath struggling to control her power in more ways than she realizes. Dexter Sullivan is an aspiring animator still reeling from the loss of his parents two years ago. Between Vanessa’s telepathy and Dexter’s grief, they’ll soon learn that they each have to confront their inner demons.
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8/18: Circle
(Dramatised - Horror)
From Darker Truths in Strange Fiction comes a twisted tale of a young paranormal investigator, going to find a haunted cabin, only to find something much worse. Will he become one of them, or will he find the will to escape?
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8/18: Last Best Hope
(Dramatised - Comedy)
After the intrepid crew of Star Command's U.S.S.S. Bittersweet Symphony gets lost in Time and Space, it will take all their gusto to find a way back across the Galactic Divide to save the Earth and Humanity itself!
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8/18: Practical Heroes
(RPG - Fantasy)
Welcome to Practical Heroes! A group of nerdy voice actors enjoying your favourite tabletop roleplaying games - including 5e Dungeons & Dragons.
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8/18: Roomie Roamers
(RPG - Fantasy)
A Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition actual play podcast. The adventure follows the story of three adventurers making waves in the Cilintir Archipelago, an unexplored group of islands found off the southern waters of the Sword Coast. Allie Deutschmann is the DM for this game. Spencer Rapoza plays Damian, a seafaring tiefling warlock on a path of revenge. Taylor Knode plays Inga, a beautiful tiefling paladin who wants to spread the joy of Sune. Kody knode plays Arius, a high elf seeking knowledge that no one else has.
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8/18: Shitty Cowboys
(RPG - Western)
Something strange is happening in the town of Westhallow. Clockwork cowboys enforce a strict dress code of cowboy boots, hats and dusters and require everyone to speak in western lingo. Will our heroes liberate the town or will they enjoy the theme? A western D&D 5e actual play podcast where we play through the Wranglers of Westhallow adventure setting. This is Dungeons & Dragons & Cowboys.
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8/18: Station Obscura
(Dramatised - Science fiction)
Station Obscura follows the interstellar wanderings of one astronaut-scientist Dr. Steve Apollo as he meanders the expanse of the universe, capturing stories he picks up with his frequency interceptor. Each season Dr. Apollo and the Station Obscura Earth team releases the latest three-episode story acquired by the Doctor from a new voice in our galaxy.
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8/18: Teddies in Lockdown
(Fiction - Comedy)
A scripted audio fiction about our suburban guardian angels: the teddies behind the glass. They’re here to raise your spirits and pledge to keep watch in the window bay until the masks come off and this pandemic is declared over. Welcome to Teddies in Lockdown.
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8/18: The Cast Perilous
(RPG - Fantasy)
An actual play fantasy RPG/storytelling podcast, featuring home-made sound effects and (endearingly?) amateur players. We prefer storytelling over rules-lawyering, so we use a rules light, old school inspired system, Low Fantasy Gaming. Listen as we tell the tale of young villagers, who are drawn into adventure within the Dolmenwood, a weird faerie-tale forest, in turns both dark and whimsical.
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8/18: What Are We Even Doing
(RPG - Fantasy)
The W.A.W.E.D DND Podcast. Homebrewed & recorded straight from the table to your ears.
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8/19: D&Dweebs
(RPG - Fantasy)
A 5E actual play podcast featuring a group of dweebs just trying their best to play D&D. Join Tim, Abby, Shelby, and Brandon on their quest to play the world's most famous role playing game.
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8/19: Dungeons & Doctorates
(RPG - Fantasy)
A D&D podcast following the adventures of three postgraduates in a fantasy university dealing with supervisors, monsters, and peer-reviewers.
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8/19: F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults)
(Fiction - Anthology)
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for adults) features seven short stories written by Alissa Anne Jeun Yi, Dipo Baruwa-Etti, Tim Crouch, Vivienne Franzmann, Matilda Ibini, Amy Jephta and Anthony Neilson. ETT asked these 7 brilliant and provocative writers to tackle the strangeness of our nighttime imaginings and twist the familiar form of bedtime stories into something uncanny, dark and surreal.
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8/19: Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow)
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) is the new podcast from critically acclaimed comedian and performance artist Kim Noble.
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8/19: Private Detective Randy Randy
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Private Detective Randy Randy is a scripted comedy podcast that follows the unabashadly self-assured titular character, Randy Randy, beginning on the night he meets Miss Legs, a widow just released from prison for killing her husband 15 years ago. The only problem is, she didn't do it. Or so she says.
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8/20: A Spark in the Apocalypse
(Dramatised - Post-apocalypse)
The electricity has gone out. The world has turned to an apocalyptic wasteland. The only way to survive is to earn 'tokens'. And the only way to earn 'tokens', is by hunting bounties. Zero, Doris and Gentry are struggling to survive. That is until a mysterious bounty worth 1 million tokens comes through. They hunt it, but when they find their target, not everything is as it seems.

8/20: Curse of Strahd: Twice Bitten
(RPG - Horror)
Six DMs return to the mists to run a completely Rules-As-Written Curse of Strahd campaign. Our core question: what happens when, rather than luring in a party of heroes or adventurers, the mists of Barovia claim a group of cowardly, cynical, selfish, and/or traumatized individuals who fall—not leap—into adventure? Join Jack, Kaiya, Linus, Tsarina, Twi and their DM DragnaCarta (creator of the popular Curse of Strahd: Reloaded guides) to follow the story of a group of ordinary people thrust headfirst into danger.
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8/20: Forties AF
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
Forties AF is a sexy, sassy, and funny fiction drama podcast about three forty-something single friends and their complicated lives. Hope, a newly-forty entertainment magazine reporter by night and aspiring writer by day, picks up the pieces her thirties left behind. Chanise, a postal carrier in her late forties, is a new empty nester and is adjusting to her new-found freedom. Brianna a hopeless romantic in her mid-forties, is a hairstylist at a very popular and hip salon and is seeking out her complete happiness. These ladies support each other as they laugh, love, and cry together, because – as they’re about to find out - life begins at forty.
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8/20: Lady Luna's Spice Shop
(Dramatised - Fantasy)
Join Lady Luna and Felix Carlyle on their topsy turvy journey though magical lessons, special potions requests, and the chaos of operating a secret potions shop in a small town!
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8/20: Mercury Theatre Podcast
(Dramatised - Anthology)
Mercury Theatre Podcast presents a new fully produced story, every month, from every genre. Promoting skilled amateur artistry from voice talents, music, directing, sound design, and everything in between. Not every story may be a favorite, but an entirely new adventure awaits right around the corner. Between each tale, Mercury Theatre Podcast also features an exclusive interview with audio drama talents.
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8/21: Batman: Echoes of the Night
(Dramatised - Fanfiction)
Echoes of The Knight Is a Non-Profit Fan Made Batman Audio Drama inspired by the Golden Age roots of the character, and seeks to give new talent the chance to tell unique Batman stories in a format relatively unexplored by the Dark Knight. These will be self-contained stories primarily concerning Batman and his associated characters. Other characters may be showcased as the series progresses.
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8/21: Edge of the World Broadcast
(Dramatised - Post-apocalypse)
The End of the world has come and gone and survivor Delsin Moore discovers a still functioning Numbers Station and becomes what could be the last voice in the world.
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8/21: Jar of Rebuke
(Dramatised - Urban fantasy)
Every 7th and 21st, join in Dr. Jared Hel's audio journal entries as he works to re-discover his forgotten past and learns about all of the strange supernatural entities and anomalies for an organization called 'The Enclosure' within the small midwestern farm town of Wichton. With episodes based upon REAL legends and lore within the midwestern United States, follow along as Jared tries to figure out the secrets of the town as well as the secrets of his own identity.
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8/21: Persona
(Dramatised - Adaptation)
Based on the serial novel "PSI" by Ani Rider.
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8/21: Shadows of a Dark Past
(Dramatised - Horror)
When local psychiatrist Mark McCain suspects the arrival of a supernatural presence in fictional town of Claysville MA, the rumbles of a storm approach. The evil that seemed to be slumbering now stirs, and the calm begins to break down as the modern Clayton family is once again eclipsed by dark shadows from centuries gone by. Can the curse be overcome, or will the shadows of their dark past consume the Clayton family once and for all? Immerse yourself in the tale of the ill-fated Clayton family in an original gothic horror drama podcast.
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8/21: Sleuth
(Dramatised - Adaptation)
When young Milo Tindle is invited to the manor of his lover's husband and crime novelist, Andrew Wyke, to bury the hatchet, a criminal plan is hatched, but is it all part of some deadly game? Adapted from the play by ANTHONY SHAFFER.

8/21: Who Watches the Birdwatchers?
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
A fictional birdwatching podcast.
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8/22: Pershing Radio
(Dramatised - Post-apocalypse)
A young woman crawls out of the bank vault she was working in when the bombs fell and finds the world destroyed around her. She steps over her dead coworkers and crosses the highway to break into an old radio building. Unsure if the broadcast equipment still works, she uses it to try and contact survivors, wherever they may be, and until she finds them, she reports on her surroundings, both the terrifying and the benign.
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8/23: The Red Rabbit Podcast
(Fiction - Science fiction)
Listen closely...The Red Rabbit Podcast is a science fiction anthology series narrated by Ticket Hickory. Each season, listeners will enjoy a different story from Ticket’s extensive library of strange and mysterious tales. But be warned, listeners, that if you are satisfied with the obvious this is not the podcast for you. Red Rabbit is a mysterious place where riddles and questions abound. However, if you are brave enough to stay on the journey- you will discover all of the secrets of Red Rabbit. Fare thee well, brave travelers! Season 1: Red Rabbit. Listeners play the role of Peter as he discovers terrifying secrets about his hometown and the sinister corporation he works for. Part serial, part game, you will have to pay close attention to find all the hints, allusions, and clues if you want to discover all of the terrifying answers to this mystery, sci-fi tale. Season 2: The Endless Falling of Dreams: Orthodoxy. We forgo the game element of the podcast and read from book one of The Endless Falling of Dreams series. This literary space-opera is set in a distant solar system where the evil Pax-Viar empire stands on the brink of complete conquest. The novel consists of five interwoven stories that each help reveal a far more sinister conspiracy hiding underneath Viar's shadow. A forbidden play, two exiled lovers, a man’s death at the hands of a robot actor, a journey to an unexplored planet, and other strange events connect the main characters to each other, even across time, and help them discover the shocking secrets of their universe. May wisdom follow!
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8/24: The Milkman of St. Gaff's
(Fiction - Horror)
Lovecraft meets Kafka in this fantasy/horror podcast about Howie, a troubled young man who joins the milkmen on the island of St. Gaff’s, only to discover that the milkmen harbor a dark and dangerous secret…
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8/25: Flashlights Not Included
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Hosted by the creepily charming Heath Morbidson, Flashlights Not Included is a parody fiction podcast that features a different mystery each month.
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8/25: Legends of Shafantor
(Dramatised - Fantasy)
Legends Of Shafantor is a fantasy audio drama that takes place in the fantasy world of Shafantor, a homebrew world I created. Episodes weekly. So let’s discover the Legends Of Shafantor!
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8/25: Omega Star 7
(RPG - Science fiction)
A new biweekly Space Opera placed in an original setting known as “The Seven Systems.” Omega Star 7 is 50% Audio Drama 50% Actual Play using the “Genesys” system created by Fantasy Flight Games. Watch as the Crew of the Wayfarer faces Pirates, Gangsters, Eldritch Horrors, and most importantly themselves in this new story.
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8/25: Space Clams
(Dramatised - Science fiction)
Follow the adventures of the Space Clams as they protect the galaxy from the forces of evil.
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8/25: The Hunt?
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Anxious to validate her recently-deceased mother’s wild conspiracy theories, a young podcaster recruits a poorly-reviewed private eye to help uncover the truth behind a ludicrous urban legend. But after witnessing a murder while searching the Santa Cruz Mountains, they find themselves at the forefront of a sensationalized investigation where every townsperson, news outlet, and internet rando has their own opinion about what really happened. The Hunt? Is a true crime/comedy podcast about a small-town murder investigation as it deals with—and becomes part of—the absurd hot-take culture of America’s murder obsession.
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8/26: Admiralty Blues
(RPG - Science fiction)
Welcome to Admiralty Blues, an actual-play podcast of Beam Saber (by Austin Ramsay) - a Forged in the Dark sci-fi game with mechs! Many battles waged on the planet Sirvon’s supercontinent have been fought with these giant machines, and the ongoing cold war has heated up again as unknown forces have wiped out the Admiralty’s communication network: the belligerent Vanguard pirates and the vengeful once-empire of Lorne have found their time to strike! Tasked with fixing the network is Mercury Squadron, otherwise known as a bunch of oddball reservists living in an ancient blimp. With their wide range of skills and personalities, they just might be up to the task - or they’ll cause more problems than they'll fix!
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8/26: In Good Company
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
The drama onstage is nothing compared to what’s happening behind the scenes in this original episodic series. Bay City Theatre Artistic Director Lola Grant is performing the ultimate balancing act: running a small, LGBTQ+ theatre during a pandemic, keeping her family together, and producing a new play- that’s still missing an ending. A new kind of podcast for a different kind of world, New Conservatory Theatre Center’s "In Good Company" is a love letter to the resilience of art, artists, and the places they call “home”.
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8/26: Wizard Seeking Wizard
(Dramatised - Fantasy)
A wizard dating podcast featuring community-submitted wizards and their personal ads where YOU get to vote on who dates who! Hosted by Chemistro the Match Mage and Cupid the Hawk from the depths of their crystal prison.
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8/27: Da Silva Linings Ghostbook
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about the psychic medium Sylvester Da Silva in the news recently. He will talk to only one person, and that's journalist Carrie Saxon. Will he talk about why he's in the news? Will he get to the point at all? Find out in this new comedy podcast.
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8/27: Entropy
(Dramatised - Science fiction)
In the year 2309, Humanity is at an all out civil war between Earth and her colonies, as the Kepler Government seeks to rule the entire Colonial Sector with an iron grip. Using Authoritarian tactics, Kepler relentlessly slaughters it's own people in an attempt to make the Central Colonial Council (CCC)budge. With the discovery of a potential new planet suitable for colonization, the CCC and the Earth Military create a mission: To bring a team of extraordinary people to establish a base on the planet, and become beacons of hope for the dying denizens of Kepler.
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8/27: Science Fiction Double Feature
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Callam and Jim are two of your regular store-brand nerds, spending more time in imaginary worlds than reality. But a mysterious figure from beyond time and space has a mission for them, and it’ll take them to places more exciting and slightly weirder than their wildest dreams. Join them on their quest through time, space, and fiction for comedy, action, romance, bromance, bad puns, and a whole lot of IMDB trivia.
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8/27: Swiss and Lali Hijack Hollywood
(Dramatised - Comedy)
Two L.A. slackers take over Hollywood by becoming accidental con artists, all so they can retire at their dream beach house in Malibu. Starring Kristin Couture (Killer Whales, Girly Tales) and Aparna Brielle (A.P. Bio, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot). Created by Raul Vega (Rose Drive). Visit www.swissandlali.com for more info - because your dreams are only a big, fat lie away!
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8/27: The Marley Stones
(Dramatised - Horror)
Castle Theatre Company is thrilled to bring you “The Marley Stones”, a brand-new radio play from DST’s Durham Drama Festival 2020's Best Writer – Issy Flower! Sharon's motley crew of scientists are on a research trip/holiday to the infamous Neolithic monument, the Marley Stones. When they arrive to research Marley’s local ‘attraction’, Tony, Mike, Sharon and Jane find themselves underwhelmed and overqualified. But is there something more, that their instruments and science can’t explain? Strange events start occurring, connected with the stones and targeting one crew member in particular...

8/27: Unknown 9: Out of Sight
(Dramatised - Horror)
Blake Elrich, an urban explorer with a haunted past, travels the country in an old RV with his partner and producer Lazari. At every stop along their journey, they encounter an inexplicable occurrence—something that could not be happening. What’s more, they’re beginning to suspect that someone is leading them to each strange case. Events intensify when an enigmatic figure emerges, terrorizing whole communities. Blake and Lazari must now race to undo the damage that's already been done and prevent a terrifying force from emerging...
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8/28: Forgive Me!
(Dramatised - Slice of life)
Father Ben left his congregation in Binghamton, New York, in the cover of night for the smaller, quieter pastures of St. Patrick’s. As our new, young, and at times progressive priest begins to acquiesce to his new surroundings, he finds himself butting heads with the eccentric parishioners who come to him seeking solace and advice. Whether he’s trying to understand Old Margaret’s “usual” confession; parsing out how Tom can better help care for his wife’s pet pig, David; or getting to the bottom of the Christmas Eve Mass Incident, Forgive Me! explores the intertwined lives in Ben’s new community and the funny, sad, and sometimes painful experiences that come out of confession and the Catholic experience.
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8/28: Radio Free Earthdawn
(RPG - Post-apocalypse)
The Novice tier Earthdawn 4E Actual Play Podcast.
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8/28: Rosevile
(Dramatised - Superhero)
Ultraman was the greatest superhero alive, until he suddenly murdered four innocent civilians. Cliff Martin will investigate the reason behind the crime.
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8/28: Simon Dawes Becomes a Planet
(Dramatised - Comedy)
A remotely recorded Audio Play by Alex Moggridge. Recorded on smartphones by actors all over the country and edited together in a small Brooklyn apartment.

8/28: The Singularity Audio Drama
(Dramatised - Science fiction)
Coming soon on August 28, 2020, based of the musical stage play "The Singularity", which was first presented in 2019, The Singularity Audio Drama takes us into unknown time, but a time not so different from our own, where an oppressive physical and psychological wall separates humanity from itself and a totalitarian entity known as The Singularity controls all means of expression and interaction. With the resurfacing of a long lost prophecy, a new era of consciousness will ignite a movement that may allow the world to see and understand itself for the first time in a brand new light.
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8/29: Clarion Dawn
(Dramatised - Thriller)
A brand new, original audio drama from the team at Three-Pound Magician: In a disquieting future, all of humanity is united by the System, the ultimate in communications technology that connects all minds simultaneously. But in the distant fringes of outer worlds, agitators plot to separate human consciousness and society from the System's power; it falls on Captain Kennick Anderson to stop them, but in the twilight solitude of space he's left to wonder where his loyalties really lie. "Clarion Dawn" is a tense thriller that explores strange new ideas about human nature, in the style of classic 20th century science fiction.
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8/30: Kill Eight
(Fiction - Horror)
Meet Kate, a girl wandering through the remains of a post apocalyptic America. Years ago, she escaped Tengen labs, a facility that performed painful experiments on hundreds of children for unknown ends. Now with more and more figures from her past resurfacing, Kate is going to find out what that purpose is. Whether she wants to or not...
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8/30: The Good Bits
(Fiction - Erotica)
Erotic audio fiction that will charm the pants off you. Each episode will inspire your desire with a sexy story from a bestselling novel. The Good Bits is diverse and feminist, sex-positive and anti-shame. We believe that sex can be fun and flirty, seductive and slutty, romantic and indulgent—but still wear a fabulous dress that leaves something to the imagination.
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8/31: Dragon Shield: Kingdoms
(Fiction - Fantasy)
Dragon Shield: Kingdoms is a fantasy-story podcast featuring the human and dragon characters of the popular Dragon Shield line of trading card game accessories.
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8/31: Four's a Crowd
(Dramatised - Comedy)
"Four's a Crowd" combines the classic sitcom packaging with a modern interpretation! Four 30-somethings share an apartment after broken relationships and skyrocketing rent force them together in this no-holds-barred subversive coming-of-age situation comedy created by R.L. Terry.
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8/31: Psupers: Homo Contra Naturam
(Dramatised - Superhero)
Psupers is an audio drama detailing the life of Shawn Douglas, who, after discovering he is part of a group of people known as "Homo Contra Naturam" who are gifted with special abilities, must try and survive in a world that despises him.
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8/31: The Dread Dome
(RPG - Horror)
The Dread Dome is a Table Top RPG playthrough game using the Dread system. Employing a Jenga tower to build the tension, the game is founded around horror movie principles and tropes. Listen as a gaggle of friends encounter a new terror-filled challenge every other week and work together to evade... The Dread Dome.
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8/31: The Karl Darkcruzer Saga Chronicles
(Fiction - Science fiction)
Self-described legendary science fiction author T.L.Dawnstar presents the world's first episodic audiobookcast of the critically reviewed The Karl Darkcruzer Saga Chronicles, Book one: The Universe Cone! Read by the author and an all-star cast of not-actors. Featuring state-of-the-art duvet-based sound proofing techniques and wildly varying audio quality, this Dawnstar audio production brings the world of the classic 90s novel to life in your very ears! Accused of a crime he didn’t commit; infamous space pirate Karl Darkcruzer must embark on a galaxy-spanning quest for the mythical Universe Cone. Accompanied by fast-talking, take-no-prisoners reporter Felicity Phobos, Darkcruzer must delve face-first into a rich-woven universe where friends become enemies and enemies became acquaintances.
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