(2 seasons + 1 miniseries, 2020-)

(an absolute delight + a pretty short little fantasy treat! nice to take a moment for something more low-stakes)

Absolutely No Adventures is a fantasy-(un)adventure audio drama podcast about dodging quests, hanging out with friends, and eating tons of baked goods as the apocalypse happens in the background.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(3 seasons, 2016-2019)

(for weird (meta)fiction that gradually builds, & creeps out towards you. each season brings something new, though equally strange and fascinating.)

Archive 81 is a found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound.

There's so much in this podcast that is just Really Really good - in terms of both technical use of the audio medium and writing/worldbuilding/characters. I find myself Thinking about it v often. rotating it in my mind if you will.
Season 1 unfolds within an almost Frankenstein-esque series of embedded narrative frames: Melody Pendras was conducting an investigation into a strange building that seems to subtly (and not-so-subtly) defy physics itself. Recordings of her investigation are stored on cassette tapes, which archivist Dan Powell has been tasked with organising. Dan sent his own recordings to his friend Mark, shortly before going missing. "Archive 81", as we hear it, is itself a podcast made by Mark, as he goes through and tries to understand what happened to his friend.
From there the story expands and blossoms into something completely new and surreal, with shifts in format and setting each season that will continue to surprise and delight (if you're delighted by good horror as i am)

Website

(1 season, 2025-)

(horror and hidden messages as you dive into the things that lie beneath the surface of these fairy stories)

A deep dive into family history, storytelling, truth and fantasy, and the ways in which we construct our own personal narratives, thanks to the inspiration of a child's journal.

One of very few shows that have really properly given me the creeps. Takes a minute to really get into the Scary but oh boy when it gets there it REALLY gets in there.
I think the best possible experience of this one involves knowing as little as possible so I'm reluctant to give much more detail but trust me ok this is good shit

(1 season, 2024-)

FANTASY

(really REALLY good mythological[ish] fantasy, stunningly beautiful music & sound design, really well-built characters)

Camlann is a post-apocalyptic fantasy by Ella Watts from Tin Can Audio. It's a serialised fiction podcast inspired by folklore and Arthurian legends. Alternatively - it's about three idiots and a dog in Wales, fighting for their lives. This series was funded by Creative Scotland and the Inevitable Foundation.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(1 season, 2025-)

"Ready to talk to ghosts?"

(quick description)

Conversations with Ghosts is a new fiction podcast from the creators of Archive 81. Each episode is an interview with a different spirit, in which a cemetery's mausoleum attendant attempts to convince the ghost to pass on. (or?)(descriptions from 2 diff. places..hmmm) The seventeen episode first season follows mausoleum attendant Mal Fleming as he tries to convince the spirits of Grey Briar Cemetery to pass on. Each episode, Mal sits down with a new ghost to build a portrait of their life, their death, and their afterlife... all to help them release whatever still ties their soul to this reality.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(2018-2024/5?)

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The CryptoNaturalist is a scripted fiction podcast all about real love for imaginary nature. It's about cryptids and other weird and wild topics. Featuring poetry and field reports to make our world a richer, stranger place.

idk how best to describe the genre here .but it is really lovely . literaure as one maybe ?)

(FATHOM 2021-2022 DERELICT 2023-2025)

(INTENSE cinematic scifi horror. the first season especially haunts me)

Something has been found at the bottom of Earth's ocean. An ancient artifact that can only be described as a giant door, inset into the sea floor. It becomes known as the Vault. A gigantic enigma, buried and forgotten... nineteen thousand feet down. To study the artifact, the galaxy's most powerful corporation, Maas-Dorian, has built a massive, self-contained, secret laboratory base surrounding it, named FATHOM. It's objective: unlock the secrets of the artifact and discover what it holds.​ But some mysteries should remain buried. And some doors should never be opened... The story of DERELICT begins with season one, FATHOM, a narrative podcast experience from award winning science fiction author J. Barton Mitchell, and produced by Night Rocket Productions.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

Website

Youtube[?]

(1 season, 2025-)

"Care to take a bite?"

(quick description)

Based on the classic novel by Bram Stoker, Starstrider Productions presents: The year is 2004. Flip-phones are in vogue, MySpace has just been launched, and Britney Spears' Toxic is top of the charts. And Castle Dracula is about to receive a young guest for dinner… Armed with only his dictaphone, newly-minted solicitor Jonathan Harker has taken the Eurostar out of Britain and travelled to the depths of Romania, where phone service and peace of mind have become a thing of the past. But Jonathan isn't the only one in the toils: he's just unwittingly given a bloodsucking monster unfettered access to London's teeming millions, and he, his friends and Mina, the love of his life, are in grave danger. A found-footage extravaganza, Dracula: 2004 dares to ask what happens when you combine vampires and dial-up internet. Join Jonathan as he survives the work trip from hell; gossip with Mina and Lucy over Lucy's three suitors; and meet the eccentric Van Helsing and her vampire-hunting armoury. This is a new millennium, a new age of technology, and a version of Dracula that you have never experienced before. Care to take a bite?

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

Transcripts:

linked per episode

(1 season, 2023-)

The ocean never gives back what it takes… unchanged.

"No respect for the sea, for the living things in it, for what's owed. They're fishing in the eel breeding grounds now, the fools."

Eeler's Choice is a maritime horror fantasy podcast set in Eskmouth, a small coastal town whose economy has lived and died on the hunting of the Great Eels for generations. As demand for product has increased, so have the catches... but even the generosity of the sea has its limits, and all debts must come due.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(2 seasons, 2023-)

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Ethics Town is a cosmic horror podcast about philosophical conundrums in a weird small town! Using an emergency broadcast system he stumbles across, January Johnson, accompanied by his uninvited guest, reports on the misdeeds of his town's new mayor. We're not going to answer the big questions for you, but we are going to dance around them in a fun and theatrical manner!

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(2 seasons, 2022-)

"Multi-season comedy-mystery about the best detective team on Baker Street! (Not that one.)"
(more descroption from meee:3yay)

London, 1889...
Behind the doors of 221B Baker Street, the greatest detective of all time and his loyal doctor friend solve some of the most befuddling, prestigious, glamorous, and exciting cases the public has ever seen, turning themselves into legends in the process.
Across the street and slightly to the left, behind the doors of 224B, lives another pair of detectives, waiting for their chance in the spotlight. And when Holmes and Watson leave town on a case, and a woman shows up at their doorstep in dire straits, that very chance appears...

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(1 album, 2024)

(quick description)

Generation Crossing is a concept album from the creators of Archive 81. It's about an 800 year journey to a distant planet, and the society that forms during that voyage.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the launch announcement/info from the creators:

Transcripts

(1 season, 2022-?)

(for a glimpse of a world into which you were not invited and are maybe not supposed to fully understand)

A role playing game hums within a global network of power lines, fiber optic cables and obsolete satellites. Players who gain access to this mysterious phenomenon create a projection and are guided by the Dictator to realms not yet known to the conscious mind.

The Goblet Wire is about 2 hours of essentially eavesdropping, hearing small sections of different people's personal campaigns in this cool, surreal world of a mysterious & solitary role-playing game played by phone. Each little vignette gives you more incredible details and bizarre experiences, leaving you full of questions but also strangely satisfied. Incredible sound design/synthscaping all throughout. It has a very specific aesthetic goal that I think it hits perfectly. Really really tasty stuff.

(2 seasons, 2024-current)

(quick description)

Good Morning Evildoers is a twice-monthly comedy horror podcast hosted by Winifred, Head of HR for evil supercorp Global Synergy Amalgamated. Daily announcements at an evil organization have to cover things not commonly found at your average non-evil company. Moonbase transfer policies. Time travel accidents. Budget disputes between rival departments that end with necromancy or plutonium. Luckily, these daily communications are well-received. Because Winifred is going to need to rally the troops. Teams excavating the sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub basement at the primary Global Synergy Amalgamated, LLC. lair are about to free an ancient Good of paralyzing banality. And it's coming for everything that isn't good for you. Sex. Drugs. Rock 'n roll. Even oat milk lattes. So it's time to fight the good fight — with some good, old-fashioned evil.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to Episode 0: Greetings, Delicious Humans

Transcripts

(1 season, 2025-)

(haunting & thoughtful cult+body horror through an aroace lens. + lots of veeery good/gross squichy sounds)

The Gospel of Haven is a horror podcast exploring the intersection of faith and anatomy after the end of the world. A cult has thrived inside the living body of the god they worship, But as their shelter starts to crumble, devotion won't be enough to keep them safe.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(2 seasons, 2020-2021, + specials(?))

(the absolute weirdest thing i can think of, journey through a psychedelic landscape that defies understanding)

The Great Chameleon War: a surreal audio drama podcast about reality-altering reptiles, cursed dreamscape explorers, and caustic imagination.

This podcast takes you on a weird and fucked-up journey through a landscape where nothing makes sense & the rules are beyond your understanding but god does it sound good.
Really incredible soundscaping + absolutely entrancing prose that viscerally evokes really specific imagery while still maintaining a healthy distance between itself and anything even slightly resembling "reality".
It's good i like it a lot :) the first time i listened it was about 4am and i hadn't been able to sleep. which really elevated the whole experience i think

(1+ seasons, 2025-current)

(archaeology. magic. divorce(?). a story & world so compelling it had me making spreadsheets by episode 3)

Adam Blackwell and Amy Stirling met as graduate students in anthropology, both obsessed with studying the same dead language and long-lost culture. Their relationship was always... complicated. They were bitter rivals, ideological opposites, and even went out on a date once - though they'd really prefer if everyone forgot about that last thing, thank you very much. Then, they became the first two people in thousands of years capable of doing magic. Over the next five years, they became global superstars, both revered and feared. Their powers led to a tragedy unlike any the world had seen before. Now, the world's first two magicians of the modern age must figure out the truth of their power, its consequences, and their relationship with one another before they do more damage to the world. The Harbingers is a new fiction podcast created by Gabriel Urbina, directed and sound designed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. From Audacious Machine Creative.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the first of 2 trailers:

Transcripts

(1 season, 2025)

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How do we hold onto hope amidst disaster? How do we maintain connection in isolation? And what do we owe each other at the end of the world?
Hey There, Mr. Moon is a sci-fi retrofuture story that takes place in the not-so-distant future. The Earth is burned and uninhabitable. A company called Happy Pod sells tiny spaceships to humans across the globe, promising to deliver them to a new habitable planet within one year. Capable of holding only a handful of passengers each and containing everything needed for a safe journey into the stars, Happy Pods blast off around the planet. Now, one year later, we meet the inhabitants of each Pod as they drift through space, eagerly awaiting the announcement of their arrival. Will Happy Pod's promises deliver everything they imagined? And how will they face the uncertainty of their future after a year in isolation?

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(1 season, 2024-)

"A secretive organisation. Two antagonistic work colleagues. Dracula's severed head..."

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast created by Fio Trethewey (Big Finish: Gallifrey War Room, 18th Wall Productions) and Georgia Cook (Big Finish: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Gallifrey War Room, BBC Books, The Dracula Daily Sketch Collection). A modern day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula, we follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula over the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a road trip across the country in an effort to achieve their ghost's wishes: stop Dracula once and for all. This is a story about identity and self discovery, family loyalty and devotion, all wrapped around a nightmare of a road trip with a rejuvenating severed head, incredibly sincere Victorian ghosts and an analogue recorder.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(2018-2019)

HORROR

Trapped in the horror-filled and impossible city of Eskew, a man makes endless recordings of his day-to-day experiences, hoping to reach the outside world. This show routinely contains body horror and other disturbing scenes. See the website for detailed warnings.

Eskew is the show I've heard the least of out of everything on this list (not for any reason other than that i just have a very long to-listen list so it's slow going) but I've heard enough to know that I really like it & it definitely belongs amongst these shows.
Awesome evil fucked up city. It rules

(1 season, 2025-)

"Sit back, relax, and enjoy the carnage!"

(quick description)

Meet Faustina Fetamine. She kills people on TV for a living.
Meet Bellamy Pink. He'll sell his body parts for some quick cash.

When a scandal ruins Faustina's career as the star of the world's most popular death game, she and Bellamy team up against the nightmare world that's trying to kill them.

KILLJAM XXX is a Queer, Cyberpunk Death Game Audio Drama from the creators of The Kingmaker Histories and Less Is Morgue.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

Website

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(1 miniseries, 2025)

(quick description)

A shepherd's quiet life on a mountain is interrupted when he finds the body of a young woman among his sheep.

An audio thriller about land rights, pastoralism, and queer rural life, brought to you by Bibi June (Folxlore) and Tin Can Audio (The Tower, Camlann)

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(1+ season, 2024-)

(really cool alchemical magic system & in-universe lore/folklore that makes for some fascinating stories)

The Great South was alone. A small rock formed atop the bones of dead gods and leviathans, drifting within an endless ocean. People left to their own petty wars and dogmas. But now, from that same ocean, comes a wave of death in the form of savage invaders, striking without cause against the Eightfold House of Holy Ichors and its 8 Bleeding Monks. In the wake of their eradication, a battlefield scavenger by the name of Jericho Raeke goes picking through the remnants and discovers something that puts him, and his unlikely allies, at the centre of the conflict. Produced in Belfast, N.I.

my personal review/pitch

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(1 season, 2025-)

(quick description)

After his sister's betrayal forced him into exile, Lord Valentin Tellari must now face the deadly ocean that rages against the Drumming Isles. But neither storms nor leviathans will smother the vengeful fire that burns within Valentin. He will not know rest until he has reclaimed what is rightfully his. Levian is an award-winning high fantasy audio drama by the creator of Desperado and Hug House Productions and is intended for mature audiences. Please check the content warnings in the episode notes before listening.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(20+ seasons, 2020-current)

(quick description)

How do you learn to be human if there's no-one around to teach you?

A hopepunk podcast following the journey of a little satellite trying to understand what has happened after Earth stops returning his calls.

New episodes Mondays

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written] (rrreally recommend the youtube version for this one where applicable. its so cutes)

listen to Episode 1.1: Hello World:

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(6 seasons, 2016-?)

(dreamy, eerie prose, strange & breathing architecture)

a podcast about ghosts, family secrets, strange houses, and missed connections.

A lot of Mabel is told through voicemails, which is a framing device that leaves a lot of room for monologuing. These monologues are poetic and entrancing, in a style that you can really get swept up in - I've described this podcast many times as a little like if "This Is How You Lose the Time War" was about a haunted house. It's one that demands a lot of focus to really keep careful track of, but when you do give it the time it needs, it really delivers. If you would like a story about lesbians that is weird and strange and scary then Mabel has you covered !

(1 season, 2024-)

:3

A murder mystery in neon utopia.  An audio drama, by Lux Radium.  While ace reporter Nan Kanally and the rest of the world struggle through post-war poverty, Metropolis has assembled a neon utopia on an icy, distant island.  It's an electronic heaven made possible by a fleet of astonishing autonomous robots.  But Metropolis holds its secrets tightly. The only word that gets out is from the few reporters they invite.  One of them is Nan's best friend, the sportswriter Stanley Bronfels.  But when Stanley disappears, it falls to Nan to discover the secrets of Metropolis… or find oblivion herself.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(5 seasons 2017-2022, + bonuses -current)

(quick description)

MISSION TO ZYXX is an improvised science fiction podcast following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic ZYXX QUADRANT of the TREMILLION SECTOR. They work for the benevolent and harmonious FEDERATED ALLIANCE, which has recently defeated the evil GALACTIC MONARCHY. The Federated Alliance is definitely less evil.
The Alliance's newest recruit is AMBASSADOR PLECK DECKSETTER, a naive, gung-ho farm boy whose crew includes trusty, know-it-all droid C-53, and hulking, omnisexual security officer DAR. They travel aboard the outdated, sentient starship THE BARGAREAN JADE - aka BARGIE - who has as many ex-husbands as stories about her glory days. Their mission is nominally overseen by JUNIOR MISSIONS OPERATIONS MANAGER NERMUT BUNDALOY, a striving, entry-level bureaucrat yearning for respect.
Well, that at least describes Season 1. The 5th and final season ended on September 23, 2022. An all-new prequel miniseries, THE YOUNG OLD DERF CHRONICLES, premiered on December 3, 2025.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(4 seasons, 2022-2025)

"Live. Laugh. Bite."

(gay vampire romance but also. much more)

Alfie is not quite dead, and he's going through some… changes.
As an A&E nurse, Alfie deals with horror everyday, but almost being killed by a walking corpse and being saved by a vampire takes things a bit far, even for him. The vampire is Casper. He's hundreds of years old, and hell-bent on finding out what's causing walking corpses to wander the streets of Alfie's hometown.
Now they've met, Alfie and Casper can't seem to leave each other alone, despite their best efforts. Alfie learns that the relationship between vampires and humans is more complicated than just predator and prey. Whatever Casper's misgivings about his own kind, and himself, Alfie is inexorably drawn closer and closer, in a heady, carnal blend of horror, hunger, love and lust.
Not Quite Dead is a (mostly) single narrator gory horror romance audio drama exploring themes of identity, sexuality and death.

"horny gay vampires" is the quickest way to describe this & it's convinced several people i know to listen so i see no particular reason to amend this. it's horny gay vampires.

it is ALSO however a really interesting partially nonlinear narrative (in the first season at least) & has the absoute coolest in-universe explanation for/version of vampirism that i have ever seen (or heard).

listen to the trailer:

(4 seasons + miniseries, 2020-current. s5 coming 2026)

(our protag is pulled headfirst into a conspiracy about secret human experimentation & it only gets bigger from there)

A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present & future, & trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]
[but this one is literally my favourite audio drama of all time. i just find it very hard to describe succinctly because i like it so so so so much]

(2 seasons, 2024-current)

(a mysterious and poignant purgatory, with secret codes and messages even woven into the podcast itself)

When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place...
Remnants is a dark fantasy thriller audio drama following the Apprentice as he learns how to read remnants under the frustrating supervision of Sir. Remnants are seemingly innocuous objects - a broken pocket watch; a steel thimble; a silk scarf - but when the Apprentice looks closely, he sees how each one holds the remnants of someone's life story.
Each week the Apprentice reads a new remnant, following that person's journey beginning to end. When he's done, he must make a judgement; shelve or discard. But he doesn't know what the criteria is or what the consequences of such a judgement might be.
The more remnants the Apprentice reads, the more we begin to understand the magnitude of the task he has been set. And the more both we, and the Apprentice himself, wonder why it is him who has been chosen to do it.
With every week, a new mystery. With every new mystery, a terrible choice.

(starts crying before i can even get a word out)
ok. sorry about that. anyway.
Remnants is an incredibly beautiful series that feels both surreal and deeply human. It is written with such care and love and detail that it fully immerses you in each remnant's individual life as well as hooking you into the wider mystery that unfolds as the series continues. It's had a profound effect on me which I will not describe in detail for fear of getting far too vulnerable here on podcards dot neocities dot org :)

(1 season, 2021-)

"No change without sacrifice"

(this one is fucked up. but like . really good. but fucked uppppp)

In this supernatural thriller series, listeners will follow Lockie, a charismatic con man who escapes to St Kilda with the promise that this time he'll change his ways. Unfortunately, the island and its unusual inhabitants have other ideas. He seeks redemption and they seek a saviour, but you know what they say - no change without sacrifice.

I listened to most of this when it came out but missed the end somehow so when i went back to it more recently there was a lot that was very familiar but still so shocking & so so well executed. this is maybe one of the most intense/confronting shows i've listened to just like psychologically. So watch out for that !! but it's good:)

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(1 season, 2024-)

"Home is where the horror is"

(for fake-true-crime horror with twisting, breathing architecture)

Shelterwood is a Docu-horror podcast delving into the depths of Suburban terror. One part found footage, one part Gothic, and one hundred percent horrifying, Shelterwood follows Nicholas DeRoso on his quest to find his long-lost sister and the impossible neighborhood beyond reality he discovers in her wake.

I somehow got very lucky with Shelterwood, and managed to find it shortly before its first episode released. I was immediately sold by the trailer but I think in episode 2 is where it became a favourite - something about hearing an unnervingly cheerful local inform our protagonist that, as a security measure, all photos of the Town Hall bite, made something in my brain click and I went "ohh this is going to be COOL." And I was right !! Every aspect of the horror, from the architectural to the monstrous to the tragic, is so so so well done. It really pulls you in and makes you think. I've relistened a good number of times and its effects on me do not lessen, even when I know exactly what's coming.

Website

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(2 seasons, 2022-?)

(more excellent audio fiction. +was instrumental for me personally actually getting into audio drama as a medium)

A very normal podcast about data restoration, wireless neural interfacing, and why you really shouldn't bring your tapes anywhere near the Hole.
SINKHOLE is a short-form audio fiction podcast presented as a collection of audio posts from a member of a community of data restoration hobbyists in a sometimes-unfamiliar future. Season three in production.

SINKHOLE is probably one of the shows I've relistened to the most & also one of the shows I most often recommend to ppl in conversation, because 1) it is pretty short, 2) the transcripts are excellent & easy to follow, and 3) it is Weird! Both in format/framing and in the subject & world of the story itself. It's an example of how great the medium of audio drama can be for telling stories that might not work as well elsewhere.

+ there's a big scary hole in the ground and it makes cool noises:)

(1 season, 2025-)

(quick description)

A sci-fi audio drama following employees of an enigmatic Museum as they discover and collect recorded sound artifacts from remarkable and impossible places.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to Episode 2: The Lab:

(4 [short] seasons, 2019-2025)

(just really exemplary audio fiction. something really special)

At the centre of the city lies The Tower, an abandoned relic of a forgotten age, built by a proud king who wanted to rule the sky as well as the land.
It stretches up into the sky, through the smog.
One night, Kiri decides to leave behind her suffocating, isolated life in the city and climb the Tower, not quite understanding why.
As she climbs, she finds payphones, and she calls those who she has left behind.
However, the Tower holds many secrets and unsolved mysteries that haven't been disturbed for a long time.

The things that I love about The Tower are mostly things that are very difficult to describe. There are simply not the words in any language to describe the feelings I experience hearing Kiri make her long and uncertain journey, swept along by a genuinely awe-inspiring score - but the overall impression is absolutely incredible. It's beautiful and strange and somehow so, so real despite its fantastical premise. And now that it's complete, each season only an hour or two, you could listen to the whole thing in a single day, with plenty of extra time set aside for crying! (which I have done)

Transcripts:

linked per episode

(1 season, 2025-current)

(quick description)

The Twelvelms Conspiracy is a brand new fantasy mystery audio drama from Eira Major, creator of Remnants, Not Quite Dead and Spirit Box Radio. Set in a magical world hidden just out of sight, it's a story fraught with social and class tension, exploring ideas about what it means to belong, and what it means to live with the legacy of terrible decisions made generations ago whose consequences have shaped everything around you.

Cyan Goodman does not belong at twelvelms and everyone knows it. Especially him. The university has trained the finest mages in magedom for centuries, but Cyan only found out it existed two weeks ago. Out of his depth, with nowhere else to go, Cyan is allowed to enroll at Twelvelms under one condition; that he keeps the circumstances under which he was admitted completely secret.

To make things more complicated, the only reason he was given a space at the school at all is because another boy has gone missing, under extremely mysterious circumstances. It seems like there's a much bigger problem lurking just out of sight at Twelvelms, one which reaches far beyond Cyan's secrets and into the foundations of magedom itself.

Cyan narrates his story years after these events, and his circumstances have become even stranger...

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to the trailer:

Transcripts

(1 season, 2025-)

"GET READY TO WREAK SOME HAVOC!"

(quick description)

In a small town in upstate New York, Harper lives a completely mundane existence. After years trying to get an artistic career off the ground, she's retreated to her tiny hometown, working minimum wage jobs and trying to ignore her chronic pain. All her days are exactly the same - wake up, have a cup of instant coffee, go to work, go home, have a microwave meal, watch TV, go to sleep. With the exception of her girlfriend - the one bright spot in Harper's life - existence is tedious and never-ending.
And then, on her thirty-sixth birthday, a demon possesses Harper. So. Not so mundane after all.
TWO THOUSAND AND LATE is the story of a demon from hell sent to bring along the apocalypse. Only, when they arrive, they find that the end of the world isn't as straightforward as they thought. But that doesn't mean they can't still sow a little chaos - the human they were assigned to is incredibly ordinary, but has more rock bottom to find.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(2025-)

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Unprescribed Journeys is a series of guided meditations by someone who really doesn't have his act together. You might be on a lovely walk in the woods, on a serene cruise, or even travelling back in time to your childhood bedroom, but something will always go wrong. A soothing, disastrous comedy awaits! The atmosphere, the time and the theme may change, but all episodes are linked by the fact that your relaxing trip will, at some point, be totally derailed.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(2 seasons, 2022-current)

COSY(?)

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The Vesta Clinic's newest doctor knows what she's doing. We promise. The Vesta Clinic is a science fiction audio drama which tells hopeful and compassionate tales of sentient life from the Asteroid Belt and Beyond. Follow Dr Underwood as she pieces together the patients' complaints into something like a convincing diagnosis.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

(3 seasons, 2017-2024)

"An unsolvable murder in an unending city. Welcome to Even Greater London."

(quick description)

A detective comedy podcast Even Greater London, 1887.
In this vast metropolis, Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investigate a murder, only to find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy of impossible proportions.

[my very cool and convincing review/recommendation][which i have not yet written]

listen to Episode 1: Even Greater London:

Transcripts

(2014-2018)

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Life's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth. His only company on board the station are stern mission chief Minkowski, insane science officer Hilbert, and Hephaestus Station's sentient, often malfunctioning operating system Hera. He doesn't have much to do for his job other than monitoring static and intercepting the occasional decades-old radio broadcast from Earth, so he spends most of his time creating extensive audio logs about the ordinary, day-to-day happenings within the station. But the Hephaestus is an odd place, and life in extremely isolated, zero gravity conditions has a way of doing funny things to people's minds. Even the simplest of tasks can turn into a gargantuan struggle, and the most ordinary-seeming things have a way of turning into anything but that. Wolf 359 is a radio drama in the tradition of Golden Age of Radio shows. Take one part space-faring adventure, add one part character drama, and mix in one part absurdist sitcom, and you get Wolf 359.

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