(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.

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The Kingmaker Histories

(3+ seasons, 2022-)

STEAMPUNK FANTASY

ADVENTURE

The story of a seamstress, a diamond, a witch, two men in a van, and a large amount of invasive alien fauna.

On the 19th of February, 1911, in the Valorian Socialist Republic, an assistant tailor named Colette Geise experienced a migraine that ruined her life. THE KINGMAKER HISTORIES is a steampunk fantasy adventure about three petty criminals swept up into a magical power struggle for the future of their post-revolutionary home country.

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(1+ season, 2025-)

HORROR

COMEDY/PROCEDURAL

really fun & well put-together with some insanely good music

Following the death of his twin, failing actor Jacob Kane assumes his late-brother's life in hopes of a fresh start. Instead of finding stability, Jacob finds himself working within The [REDACTED] Unit, a covert agency tasked with containing impossible creatures and phenomena. As he becomes entangled with paranormal forces and secret agendas, Jacob begins to discover a sense of belonging in a place he never expected.
Equal parts horror and workplace comedy, [REDACTED] takes inspiration from late 90s & early 2000s television like procedural monster-of-the-week shows X-files & Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the classic ensemble banter of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Psych.
Welcome to The [REDACTED] Unit.

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(1 season, 2025-)

"Care to take a bite?"

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?

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(20+ seasons, 2020-current)

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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

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(1 season, 2024-)

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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.

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

really really fun scifi improv with a healthy dose of star wars parody

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.

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(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, 2025-current)

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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...

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(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.

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Something's Amiss at Juniper's House

(1+ season, 2026-)

HORROR

ROMANCE

my gf mind controls me lowkey but shes so beautiful idegaf

Horror and romance go hand in hand in "Something's Amiss at Juniper's House". Finley's met someone… and she is everything. Their dream girl, Juniper Sumac, might be too good to be true. Is young love just that magical, or is something sinister brewing? Between the bodies in the basement and some pretty intense earthquakes, it's becoming clearer and clearer that things aren't as they seem. But hey, who doesn't have baggage?

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