We’ve been celebrating quite the Summer of Suspense – both in real life with the vagaries of the COVID pandemic, and in our imaginations with some fist-clenching stories of horror, mystery, and mayhem.  With Autumn on the horizon, we’ll continue that motif one more time, but with a local eye. Midnight Audio Theatre is produced in Columbus, Ohio.  This final jaunt into the genre kicks off with a series produced in the Columbus neighborhood, and it’s new to the show:  Distress Frequency.  This is a horror, sci-fi and adventure anthology series that harkens back to the Golden Age of Radio, yet with a modern flair.  Read More →

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Fire up your auditory boilers:  it’s steampunk time! This episode of Midnight Audio Theatre marks the debut of an innovative, highly creative series in our fold:  The Tales of Sage and Savant.  The series busts storytelling convention in many ways; for example, our two heroes die at the end of every season…because that’s how they stay alive. Confused?  Not once you know the show’s delightfully deadly premise.  Dr. Petronella Sage conducts research at Kings College in reanimating dead tissue to advance the science of limb replacement.  She accidentally electrocutes herself during one of her experiments, separating her consciousness from her body.  Along with her dedicatedRead More →

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Whew! If you’re look for a show chock-full of storytelling without the host babbling, this is one for you! We have The Ordinary Epic back for another dose of adventure in Episode 3: Modern-Day Thacktivism, along with a journey to the far reaches of the Sys with Oblivity, Episode 1: Incoming. And it really is incoming, as Oblivity is Rob Stringer’s first trip into the audio drama universe. Independently produced in Oxford, UK with a host of local talent, the story started as an idea that turned into a test performance at a local Scratch Night and took off from there. It’s a fun, quirkyRead More →

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Hello and welcome, audio drama adventurers! Last time, we were treated to the first three episodes of London Necropolis Railway, along with The Ordinary Epic, Episode 1: The Group. If you couldn’t get enough of them, don’t worry – neither could we! So coming up this show is the rest of LNR’s first season with Episodes 4-7, and another installment of the Ordinary Epic with Episode 2: The Dip. Like last time, we’re kicking things off first with London Necropolis Railway. The show is a part of the Swedish project THE OTHER SIDE which is a multi media project aimed at young adults to helpRead More →

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Welcome back! It’s another show of new stories as we welcome two new friends to the show, with a short SCIENCE lesson in between. Are you prepared to explore the ghostly train station of the Necropolis Railway? How about questing with a new group of friend on a not-so Ordinary Epic? It’s time for some adventure with weird and wonderful things! First things first – we’re going underground to find out more about this mysterious Underground of London in Hillevi Gustafson’s “London Necropolis Railway”. The story is inspired by the actual Necropolis Railway of the 1800s, which transported dead bodies out of London for burialRead More →

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(A big thank you goes out to our online community – you have been amazingly patient with us as we fell behind with our Episode Archive. Some new project work fell our way, and we’ve been trying to juggle everything…hopefully we’re back on track now!) Hello, audio dramateers! Glad to be back with you with another hour of stories. It’s time to get caught up with more of “The City Within The Walls”, and as an extra treat, we’ve got a bit of science and an Out-of-Time origin story to entertain your ears. The dystopia of “The City Within The Walls” is created and composedRead More →

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We’re back with more Decoder Ring Theatre and their Summer Showcase stories! This show, we take a trip back to the Wild West, before and after the Golden Age of Radio. Penned by Phil Bledsoe, Blaze Bing is the quintessential Man of the Old West – but when radio dramas have passed their prime, what becomes of the voice who brought Blaze to life? Take a listen to all of the good, bad and the ugly in these back-to-back stories: “Blaze Bing, Rodeo King” and “Tales of the Rodeo King”. Enjoy! Don’t Forget to Check Out:– Decoder Ring Theatre– Summer Showcase– Patreon: Decoder Ring Theatre

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We’ve updated! This and the next few episodes were late in posting – I’m afraid we got a bit sidetracked with following up on MAT Features planning and auditions, as well as some new projects we’re trying to start up. Thank you for your patience! Automnicon is here for you. Whether you want to be or not. Welcome! This show, we’re going on a journey of odd jobs, personal debt and corporate obligation, all thanks to Automnicon – the kind of space-bound company Hartlife might become if it was purely driven by profit and statistics. Born from a love of radio, audio books and storytelling,Read More →

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Happy Holidays radio listeners!   This is a special MAT Holiday episode we aired on Christmas Day this year.  Not every episode of MAT is appropriate for all audiences – it is a midnight show, after all – but on a holiday such as Christmas where storytelling is such a core element of the season, we wanted to share a set of family-friendly stories that everyone could enjoy after the presents have been opened.  And now you can hear it here! We welcomed back two production groups from last year – Uncanny County and Aural Traditions.  We start with the former as we venture out toRead More →

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The obnoxious songs on repeat.  The overly-cheery decorations.  The glitz and glamour of an overdone holiday season.  Is this what goes through your mind during December?  Does everything you see make you want to mutter, “Bah!  Humbug”?  Then never fear – this show is for you! For this episode, we’ve found a handful of grinchy stories from new and old characters alike. Starting things off we welcome the folks at Public Domain Universe with their story, “GhostCo“. The PDU podcast series focuses on Candide, Tom Sawyer, and Cinderella and their misadventures – but for the Christmas holiday, they’ve pulled out an exclusive behind-the-scenes look atRead More →

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