Join us for a series of different individual audiodrama productions written by Alisdair Adams and recorded by a group of highly talented performers in our home town of Sheffield.
All of them are stories with a modern contemporary outlook, that we hope will warm your heart and make you laugh.
On a mission to the other side of space, Cara communicates back home and hears a voice that is reassuring, familiar and cannot possibly be there.
Soon everything she thinks she knows is in doubt and as Controls scrambles to discover what is happening Cara drifts further from their reach, putting everything in danger.
“Don’t Let You Mind Wander” is the first new episode produced for the ‘Vanishment’ anthology #AudioDrama podcast. Between life and death, there and gone. Mystery & adventure stories about the things that disappear and the dangers of finding them.
Jim Price has been blackmailed by a criminal gang and forced to work deep underground, a half mile from shore and protected by only 20 feet of rock that he’ll soon be drilling and blasting. All he can do is pray to God that it doesn’t cave in until he’s long on his way out.
But he’s not alone down here…
‘The Killer Mine’ is based on the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. It was originally adapted into an episode of the 1951 CBS OTR radio series ‘Escape’ (the story from the novel heavily condensed to fit into the 30 minute format). It has been slightly re-written, edited and directed for 2023 by Peter Beeston. It has been remade for this years ‘Sonic Society’ summerstock festival in which modern audio-fiction groups take on the challenge of remaking classic ‘Old Time Radio’ shows.
Artwork By Aislynn Hearn
Dr Kennedy is a guilt-ridden psychiatrist, who is reviewing old recordings of his former patient Alisha in the hopes of solving the mystery of Ravenscourt. At the time he easily dismissed Alisha’s assertion that Ravenscourt was bound to evil. However many years later, his faith in that assertion and even reality itself, is starting to crumble.
Because somehow the deserted asylum has started calling to him in his dreams….
James sits alone in his flat dreading the things that lurk outside. Margaret silently considers how much time she has left as a machine rhythmically measures her heartbeat. Kathy slowly worries about what she has lost and Jane tries to come to terms with what she now has to cut away.
It is a season of change for all four of them, and that’s when the lightbulb flickers for a brief moment before the filament breaks at its weakest point and everyone is left in darkness. We know it’s only temporary and lightness will soon return… but can we be really sure?
The future comes for us all eventually. No matter how many times we have fought the good fight. So on the morning of September 1838, the HMS Temeraire, known as the ‘Fighting Temeraire’, was towed down the Thames to her final destination. On that day the artist William Turner looked upon the scene and immortalised it in what was later to become the nation’s favourite painting.
The gavel slams onto its pedestal and the audience bursts into applause. All around them, the gallery is buzzing with conversations from its many occupants, who mingle amongst the different paintings, photographs and sculptures that reside in this beautiful and luxurious endless white room. At the back, beaming with pride; stands Oscar Johansson. He’s the artist behind all this work… even though most of it was created by ‘something’ else.