EPISODE 4: THE BLIND QUEEN Written by Alexander King Narrator: Matthew Wignall Music and sound design: Ian J Cole "The blind Queen’s wheeled throne was a shopping trolley, the front cut out. Her legs dangled from the front and her shoes occasionally scuffed the ground." Alexander King is an actor, writer and musician. He also narrated our episode What Rupert Don't Know. Find out more about him here. Matthew Wignall is a writer and actor currently based in the North of England. He has written for and acted on stage, screen and radio. He is also a founder member of Off The Rock Productions, a company dedicated to producing new writing. www.offtherockproductions.co.uk twitter.com/offtherockuk Ian J Cole (@ianjcole) is a musician, composer and the host of The Audiophile Radio Show.

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The Blind Queen by Alexander King

EPISODE 3: The Unwish by Claire Dean Narrator: Helen Lewis Music and sound design: Ian J Cole "One step inside and Amy knew there was something she’d forgotten." Claire Dean is a writer, researcher, editor, performer, project-maker and facilitator. Find out more about her at http://www.clairedean.co.uk/. The Unwish was first published by Nightjar Press in 2017, visit them at http://nightjarpress.weebly.com/. It is currently in print in Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5 (Undertow Publications) https://undertowpublications.com/shop/years-best-weird-fiction-vol-5-trade-paperback and Best British Horror 2018 (NewCon Press) http://www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.asp?id=118&referer=Hp. Helen Lewis is an actor based in the North of England. Twitter @helenlewisactor or visit http://www.helenlewis.co.uk Ian J Cole (@ianjcole) is a musician, composer and the host of The Audiophile Radio Show.  

The Unwish by Claire Dean

EPISODE 2: We Are The Disease by Gareth E Rees Narrator: Daniel Wilmot Music and sound design: Ian J Cole Additional sound: Wayne Britcliffe "As soon as this storm abated, the captain promised me, we’d leave this place. But what place was this? A block of ice on a body of water on a globe in empty space. What were we leaving? Where were we escaping to? There was nothing but the world, and we were of that world. Microbes lived inside us, digesting our food, defending us, attacking us, entirely disregarding us. They were in the sea. On the land. In our cities. In our water supply. Beneath the ice of the Arctic, blooming and mutating, seeping up into the light. There was nowhere to go but here, and here was everywhere." First published in the excellent horror anthology series The Shadow Booth edited by Dan Coxon, We Are The Disease is a chilling eco-horror story from Gareth E Rees. Gareth's novel The Stone Tide is available now from Influx Press.  "Convinced that apocalypse approaches and his past is out to get him, Rees embarks on a journey away from his family, deep into history and to the very edge of the imagination. Tormented by possessed seagulls, mutant eels and unresolved guilt, how much of reality can he trust? "The Stone Tide is a novel about grief, loss, history and the imagination. It is about how people make the place and the place makes the person. Above all it is about the stories we tell to make sense of the world."  

We Are The Disease by Gareth E Rees

EPISODE 1 What Rupert Don't Know, written by Glen James Brown (@Glen_J_Brown) Narrator: Alexander King Music and sound design: Ian J Cole   An exclusive short story to launch our podcast, from acclaimed writer Glen James Brown, whose outstanding debut novel, Ironopolis is out now from Parthian Books. You can buy it here. "By keeping compassion, wry observation and tar-black humour at the centre of these interwoven stories, Brown has created a fascinating, absorbing world." Kerry Hudson reviews Ironopolis in The Guardian, Jan 2019. Alexander King is an actor, writer and musician, find out more here. Ian J Cole (@ianjcole) is a musician, composer and the host of The Audiophile Radio Show.  

What Rupert Don't Know by Glen James Brown

PILOT EPISODE: Relic by David Martin Narrator: Tristan Carlyon Music and sound design: Ian J Cole Voice recording: Gavin Campbell "No one was watching at the frozen hour when the lights streaked low overhead, or in their wake heard the crashing of branches and the outraged eruption of birds. Close up you could see the marks of his descent through the canopy of trees, their broken limbs charting his passage, letting new shafts of light fall into the shadowed space where he lay, close by a silent pond. From outside the wood was undisturbed, keeping its secret. But secrets find their way out, too good to keep, but good enough to keep close." David Martin writes short fiction, with stories featured in Black Static, The Dark, The Mechanics' Institute Review and Litro among others. Find him on Twitter @lordsludge. Ian J Cole (@ianjcole) is a musician, composer and the host of The Audiophile Radio Show.

Relic

Lost transmissions from strange realities... Strange and beautiful short fiction meets immersive sound design.

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