Personal highlights Great & Terrible, Resilient. Are Jane's actions starting to catch up with her? The first few episodes of this new season have been more introspective, focusing on Jane's struggles as she tries to deal with her new reality, but here we have a wider view of her world with two other characters also … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 29th November 2020
Month: Nov 2020
Episode Focus: The Amelia Project – Percy
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Q50t7tt6kiqod5zKbq6V6?si=CrfnLl8rTGSq--NudLAqHw One of the texts I studied at university was Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. In the absurdist Italian play from the 1920s, six fictional characters interrupt a rehearsal which is being held in a theatre, and explain that they have been abandoned by their author. They are looking for an … Continue reading Episode Focus: The Amelia Project – Percy
Audio Fiction Sunday 22nd November 2020
Personal highlights Aishi Online, Episode 24 -Reveal. There are some short reflections on the pandemic at the start of the episode, and then we’re straight into the continuation of MJ's fantasy story, which MJ is using more and more instead of talking directly about what was happening in her life during her time on The … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 22nd November 2020
The Prickwillow Papers
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lR6eI7LETi5vWgVOUPGbH The Prickwillow Papers is a comedy fantasy from Snazzy Tapir Productions, and is written and produced by Maddy Searle, who also voices the two main characters of Sylda and Squirm. Sylda is a half-elf, who’s newly graduated from the College of Mages. The story starts with her writing in a new diary - or … Continue reading The Prickwillow Papers
Audio Fiction Sunday 15th November 2020
Personal highlights Great and Terrible, Pom-Pom. The second episode of this new season provides a lot of insight into how Jane has completely changed since we first met her, but also how little has changed in other aspects of her life. There's a strange and unsettling contrast between her life as a teenager, and the … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 15th November 2020
Dos: After You
(CW: This podcast and post contain mentions of murder and death. There are also allusions to the Covid-19 pandemic, mostly through mentions of lockdown periods and the subsequent re-openings.) https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LQr6wbkX2LoHRt2KVBw2i?si=4GRovn26THm87IyqfqUbyg Dos: After you is a bilingual LGBTQ+ horror and urban fantasy podcast, and is released in both English and Spanish. It's written and produced by … Continue reading Dos: After You
Audio Fiction Sunday 8th November 2020
Personal highlights Ostium, Episode 56 - After Disaster Broadcast. With The After Disaster Broadcast, very understandably, on hiatus given...well, 2020, it was so great to hear from Jo again. Monica winds up in The After Disaster Broadcast’s post-apocalyptic world through one of Ostium’s doors. There are some interesting reflections after Monica sees that Jo makes … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 8th November 2020
Audio Fiction Sunday 1st November
Personal highlights The Dungeon Economic Model, A Dungeon Economic Model Halloween. As the title of the episode suggests, it's DEC's Halloween episode, and it also features Gil from Middle:Below (another Tin Can Audio show). I loved the background voices, and Gil's reactions! Fireside Folktales, S1E6 - Whispering: Epilogue. There's a ceremony, in which the now … Continue reading Audio Fiction Sunday 1st November
A Sky Full of Pods 