Latest Alternative stories Podcast Episodes
Camlann: An audio drama: An interview with creators Ella Watts and Amber Devereux
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - January 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCamlann is the new audio drama from Tin Can Audio written by Ella Watts. In this special edition we chat with Ella and sound designer / composer Amber Devereux of Tin Can Audio about the creation of the show. Chris Gregory and Dex Legacy writer Emily Inkpen chatted with Ella and Amber via zo...
Ark : An Audio Drama
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - December 15, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFlood survival operations are underway aboard the Ark and Captain Noah has delegated command to his sons and their partners. But as the voyage begins a spate of mysterious deaths prompt Parphia to turn detective and embark upon the world's first ever murder mystery. She is determined to record...
"Twisted Branches": A conversation with author Dr Rachel Knightley
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - December 08, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOur guest on this edition of Alternative Stories is writer, writing coach and teacher Dr Rachel Knightley. We chatted on zoom about Rachel’s short story cycle “Twisted Branches” To buy a copy of Twisted Branches from the publisher Black Shuck Book please click the link below https://blacksh...
Behind the Scenes of our Science Fiction Drama The Dex legacy
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - November 24, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this edition we look behind the scenes at the making of our science fiction drama The Dex Legacy This podcast originally went out as an episode of The Dex Legacy Podcast and was released before the current season started. You can find out more about The Dex Legacy, subscribe and listen by...
Launching season 2 of the Seren Poetry Podcast with Sarah Johnson of Seren
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - November 17, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe second season of the Seren Poetry Podcast begins this week and in this preview edition we chat with Sarah Johnson from Seren who will be the interviewer in this series and hear poems from the featured poets. Thank you to Sarah Johnson from Seren for being our guest in this edition Sound ...
Whatever you do, just don't! Talking poetry with Matthew Stewart
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - November 10, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThank you for listening to this edition of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast in which we chat with poet Matthew Stewart about his new Happenstance collection “Whatever you do, just don’t” You can order a copy of the collection via Happenstance here https://www.happenstancepre...
A conversation with author Lyndsey Croal
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - June 16, 2023 03:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this edition we chat with author Lyndsey Croal about her novelette "Have You Decided on your Question?" her audio drama "Daughter of Fire and Water" and the kickstarter campaign for the forthcoming climate change edition of the "Shoreline of Infinity" magazine which she will be editing. Fi...
Notes From Dad's Room : An Audio Drama
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - June 02, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPerformed by Carole Pluckrose and Ria Knowles https://www.spotlight.com/1418-7861-2841 Produced in association with The Boathouse Barking CIC. https://www.boathousebarkingstudios.com/ Instagram Facebook ©Carole Pluckrose 2023 Dedicated to Edgar, Anne and Sheelagh Script editors :Claire ...
Spell Sounds : Sea and Shore
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - May 26, 2023 03:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSpell sounds is an audiofiction soundscape series in which we combine poetry and prose with sound effects to evoke places, spaces and landscapes In this edition you heard the voices of Tiffany Clare, Sally Walker Taylor, Cee Cee and Chris Gregory You heard writing by Lyndsey Croal Ange W...
Frasier Armitage : New Yesterday
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - May 19, 2023 03:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this edition we speak to science fiction writer Frasier Armitage about his novel New Yesterday which was published earlier this year. Frasier is the author of our award winning audio drama Postcards from Another World and several pieces of short fiction. Chris Gregory met Frasier over zoom ...
Storying our Futures : Climate change and storytelling in East Africa
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - May 12, 2023 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsStorying our Futures is a new podcast series looking at the climate crisis in east Africa and the ways in which storytelling can help to spread information to the local population. Through the eyes of two Kenyan storytellers, Mara and John, we travel with them through South Sudan and northern Ke...
The Best of Men : An Audio Drama : Part Two
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - April 07, 2023 03:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMarc Hughes, the larger-than-life presenter of the supernatural investigation TV show Paranormal Takedown, is in Shropshire visiting his friend Jack who claims that the Devil is active in the county. Alongside co-host Emilie Daniels, Marc has decided to make a special edition about the weird go...
Spring Fever: A new novel by Thomas Legendre
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - March 31, 2023 03:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThank you for listening to this edition of The Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast featuring the new novel "Spring Fever" by Thomas Legendre Readings from Spring Fever were by Tiffany Clare with Thomas Legendre playing Craig Merleau in the interview excerpt The interviewer was Chri...
The Best of Men : An Audio Drama : Part One
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - March 24, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen Marc Hughes, the larger-than-life presenter of the TV show Paranormal Takedown, receives a series of increasingly desperate voice mail messages from his childhood friend Jack claiming that a great evil is loose in Shropshire, he is sceptical. Realising that investigating the story might ma...
The UK Ghost Story Festival
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - February 03, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThank you for listening to the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast. Our guest in this edition is Alex Davis of the UK Ghost Story Festival You can find out more about the festival, book tickets and read more about the participants by visiting the festival website here https://www...
Working Class Writers with guest editor Amber Hall
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - January 27, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this podcast we look at working class writers, their work and experience with guest editor Amber Hall. We look at the difficulties that working class writers overcome and the limitations and expectation placed upon them by the wider world of literature. We speak to guests 1990s Chris and Lis...
"Home" : A New Novel by Cailean Steed
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - January 17, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThank you for listening to this edition of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast. In this edition we speak to Cailean Steed, the author of a new novel “Home” which is published by Raven Bloomsbury on 19th January. The novel deals with Zoe, a young woman who has grown up as part ...
Postcards From Another World: An Audio Drama
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - December 20, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMaking a life on a new world following a family tragedy, Lyra and Neeva reflect on their past lines as farmers on Epsilon while coming to terms with the realities of existence on their new home, Lunasetti. Postcards From Another World by Frasier Armitage is the winner of the 2022 Pen to Print a...
The Gathering : An Audio Drama
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - October 31, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen Sasha and Gemma’s mother dies they are contacted by the mysterious solicitor Clark, with news that the rambling and isolated family home, Harrington Hall has been left to the sisters as part of the will. There’s a catch however: in order to gain their inheritance Sasha and Gemma must spend...
The Gathering : An Audio Drama
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - October 31, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen Sasha and Gemma’s mother dies they are contacted by the mysterious solicitor Clark, with news that the rambling and isolated family home, Harrington Hall has been left to the sisters as part of the will. There’s a catch however: in order to gain their inheritance Sasha and Gemma must spend...
The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival : A Poetry Anthology
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - October 12, 2022 03:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Sylvia Plath literary festival celebrates the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets. Taking place over the weekend of the 21st to 23rd of October in Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall in West Yorkshire, the festival will feature events led by and featuring contem...
National Poetry Day 2022 : A Seren Poetry Anthology
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - October 06, 2022 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor National Poetry Day 2022 we are sharing an anthology of poems recorded for the Seren Poetry Podcast which is launched on 6th October. All of the poems in this selection broadly related to this year’s National Poetry Day theme of the environment. The following poems are included - all are ...
The Seren Poetry Podcast and The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival. A Poetry Special Edition
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - September 30, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this edition we speak to poets and poetry editors for Seren Books Rhian Edwards and Zoe Brigley and to poet and director of The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, Sarah Corbett You can listen to preview editions and subscribe to the Seren Poetry Podcast by searching “The Seren Poetry Podcast” i...
Audio Drama Creators: A special Edition
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - July 22, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this edition we talk to audio drama creators about their shows, their production processes and tips for other creators. We speak to Christina Castaneda, creator of Venice Magic Shop, David Johnson and Jodie Jasmine Hicks of Death in Podville, Emily Inkpen of The Dex Legacy, Jackie Jorgenson ...
Audio Drama Creators: A special Edition
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - July 22, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this edition we talk to audio drama creators about their shows, their production processes and tips for other creators. We speak to Christina Castaneda, creator of Venice Magic Shop, David Johnson and Jodie Jasmine Hicks of Death in Podville, Emily Inkpen of The Dex Legacy, Jackie Jorgenson ...
Walking on Skylark Ridge by David Suff : A Midsummer Podcast
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - June 24, 2022 03:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this midsummer edition we continue the theme of nature writing . We feature Walking on Skylark Ridge by artist and writer David Suff. The book charts David’s daily walk along the same route for a year beginning at the start of the UK’s first national lockdown in which we were restricted to...
The Ponies at The Edge of The World. Nature writing and Landscape
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - June 03, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today’s podcast we speak to two writers for whom nature, landscape and horses are important in their work. Catherine Munro is the author of “The Ponies At The Edge of The World” about her life in Shetland and Madeleine F White whose poetry collection “The Horse And The Girl” explores riding,...
The Ponies at The Edge of The World. Nature writing and Landscape
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - June 03, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today’s podcast we speak to two writers for whom nature, landscape and horses are important in their work. Catherine Munro is the author of “The Ponies At The Edge of The World” about her life in Shetland and Madeleine F White whose poetry collection “The Horse And The Girl” explores riding,...
The Half-Life of Snails
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - April 22, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this edition we look at The Half Life of Snails, the debut novel by writer and academic Philippa Holloway. The novel deals with issues surrounding nuclear energy and the communities it affects and we talk about Philippa's trip to the Chernobyl exclusion zone as part of our interview. We ha...
Ghostlore : An audio fiction anthology. Part Two : Hauntings
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - April 01, 2022 03:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsGhostlore is an anthology of writing inspired by the folklore of ghosts and the supernatural. Edited by writer and audio dramatists Lyndsey Croal our second episode Hauntings, features the work of 11 writers and explores folklore from around the world. The readers are Sally Walker Taylor, Mari...
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