20250323 - 19 Fiction Podcasts this week
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:23 pm
LIBRARIAN'S RECOMMENDATIONS
Burnout - Cyberpunk Serial Audio Drama
In a gritty cyberpunk-inspired world dominated by organised crime clans, emerging A.I., and a population obsessed and controlled by the spectacle of Zero Gravity Racing we follow Theo Bazarov, a disgraced Zero Grav racer in debt to one of the world's largest crime clans. Forced into an opportunistic suicide mission when a terrorist EMP attack turns the city into the world’s largest and most dangerous Zero Grav racing track and reliant on a sassy, unstable internal A.I. called IRIS, Theo is forced to encounter some of the continent’s most colourful characters on his journey to pull off an impossible heist. Unable to trust his own mind and the motives of those around him while dealing with a crippling synthoid-narco addiction, Theo will have to take his driving and his sanity closer to the edge than ever before if he is to get out alive. Created by Lewis Carter and the award-winning team behind The Dex Legacy, BURNOUT is a high-octane drag race across an original new sci-fi world.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250314-01
Lost/Thread - Horror Serial Audio Book
A tight-knit group of college friends sets out to document the unexplained, following cryptic online posts that hint at hidden truths. Their curiosity drives them to perform a ritual—one they believe will open the door to something bigger. What starts as a calculated experiment quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. Reality begins to shift, blurring the lines between the known and the unknown.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250321-01
Purgatory, Missouri - Occult and Supernatural, Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
"Purgatory, Missouri" is a supernatural thriller that asks the question: can sleep and the Afterlife collide? In "Purgatory, Missouri", an epileptic woman falls into a coma and finds herself in a grimy, rundown carnival, where the sky is grey and danger is everywhere. Each Newcomer gradually loses their memories of who they were while the carnival itself seems to be ripping apart. What are those cameras on the tall poles? Who operates that phone booth? Why do people meander aimlessly in a constant state of terror? Trouble is everywhere - are you ready?
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250317-01
The Gospel of Haven - Horror Serial Audio Book
The Gospel of Haven is a horror podcast exploring the intersection of faith and anatomy after the end of the world. A cult has thrived inside the living body of the god they worship, But as their shelter starts to crumble, devotion won’t be enough to keep them safe.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250314-02
The Machine - Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
Twelve contestants enter a reality TV show, but when people start dying off every week, the survivors have to find a way out. Along the way, they uncover secrets about themselves, each other, and the mastermind behind it all. The truth may be much more than they ever could have dreamed.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250305-04
OTHER NEW RELEASES
Cherry Lake - Crime and Mystery, Occult and Supernatural Serial Audio Drama
Cherry Lake is the first-ever scripted radio drama from Hip Dad Radio—an 11-part mystery series blending small-town secrets, supernatural suspense, and dark humor.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250313-01
CODA - Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
Una tormenta solar de proporciones gigantescas va a impactar nuestro planeta. Los científicos coinciden en que las consecuencias van a ir más allá de la destrucción de la red eléctrica. El escenario es apocalíptico. La alerta se emite quince minutos antes del evento y el pánico se desata. Pero en quince minutos las vidas pueden torcerse, las historias entrecruzarse y la suerte cambiar. Quince minutos es mucho tiempo.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250315-02
Consuela, Bandit Queen of California - Comedy, Western Serial Audio Drama
Consuela, bandit queen of California, mainatins an impenetrable personna as of Dona Maria Carola de la Casta Nets De Su Mama, a local land baron and fixture of the community. She uses her position to rob from from the rich, the newly arriving North Americans, to give to the poor, the displaced Latino population, until the arrival of Mary Burnett threatens her plans. Will Mary figure is out? Will anyone believe her? What will the role of an unspeakable blemish shared by Consuela and Dona Maria play? And does Mary's finance look that good on a horse?
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250223-02
Dungeons & Dragons Out of the Abyss Storytellers' Tales - Fantasy Longform Dungeons & Dragons Audio RPG
indulge in a unique blend of humor and terror within the gloomy world of the Underdark. Our DM, Hulkman, will take you on a thrilling journey filled with heartfelt moments and hair-raising encounters.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250305-03
Fortune - Science fiction Serial Audio Drama
When Alice is kidnapped from Earth by an extraterrestrial ship, she doesn’t expect to be rescued by the long haul cargo ship Fortune. While Alice gets to know the ship's misfit crew, strange dreams lead her to believe some know more about her circumstance than they let on. With a months long journey back to Earth ahead of her, she must decide who to trust and where she truly belongs.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250315-01
Jurassic Terrors: Haunting Stories of Dinosaurs - Adventure Anthology Audio Book
Experience Jurassic Terrors like never before! Based on the spine-chilling book, this episodic audio series brings each terrifying tale to life with immersive sound design and a haunting original score by Joe Hodgin. From velociraptors stalking in the shadows to monstrous sharks lurking in the depths, every episode pulls you into a world where prehistoric beasts reign once more. Perfect for dinosaur enthusiasts, horror lovers, and thrill-seekers alike, this podcast delivers cinematic storytelling that will keep you coming back for more.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250320-01
Love Is A Verb - Thriller and Psychological Oneshots Blood On My Name Audio RPG
A Found Footage style audiodrama Actual Play driven by the TTRPG ‘Blood on my Name, which was written by Kienna Shaw and Jason Cutrone.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250317-04
Princesses of the Realms - Fantasy Longform Perils & Princesses Audio RPG
An actual play podcast that's short and sweet just like our Princesses (most of them).
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250203-05
Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast - Occult and Supernatural Serial Audio Drama
They told us monsters weren’t real. That myths were just stories to keep us up at night. But what if they were wrong? Buried in forgotten attics, locked away in an ancient lockbox, and hidden deep within the shadows of my family’s history lie journals. Journals that whisper secrets humanity was never meant to know. Accounts of creatures that lurk just beyond the edge of our understanding—beasts, legends, and horrors that defy explanation. What you’re about to hear is no story. It’s evidence. Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction. But be warned: Once you’ve seen the monsters, they’ve seen you too. I’m your host, Michael… let’s begin.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250203-06
RPG Underground - Multigenre Oneshots Multiple Audio RPG
RPG Underground provides video and podcast episodes of our actual play RPG sessions using a variety of different systems with original and published scenarios and campaigns.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250310-04
Say I Slew Them Not: An Adult Queer Fantasy Noir Podcast - Fantasy, Noir Serial Audio Drama
Say That I Slew Them Not is an adult queer fantasy noir where Les Miserables meets Peaky Blinders plus anthro crocodiles. Kingsley, an anthro crocodile rebel leader, is being tried for war crimes he definitely committed. To save his life (and maybe stop WWIII - no guarantees though), he’ll manipulate Alex, a traumatized journalist whose wife Kingsley tortured, into publishing classified documents that will implicate the rich and powerful in war crimes of their own. What? He’s done worse.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250318-01
Seré Tus Ojos T1 - Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
Maeva Nazari es una chica invidente que buscaba el amor en una app de citas. Su vida da un giro de 180º cuando conoce a Nasser, un hombre misterioso y embaucador que cambiará para siempre su futuro.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250131-03
The Hills - Storytelling, Occult and Supernatural Serial Audio Book
’The Hills’, a new podcast by Cryptic Wallaby, is a speculative fiction offering featuring supernatural themes. When the people of Riverdell start noticing an uptick in weird phenomena they start investigating. They are not prepared for what they find.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20241228-03
The Infinite Worlds of Ella Jane - Fantasy Serial Audio Drama
Ella Jane Flores, EJ to her friends, falls into a swimming pool at a disappointing house party and wakes up on a mysterious train in another dimension.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250317-02
Burnout - Cyberpunk Serial Audio Drama
In a gritty cyberpunk-inspired world dominated by organised crime clans, emerging A.I., and a population obsessed and controlled by the spectacle of Zero Gravity Racing we follow Theo Bazarov, a disgraced Zero Grav racer in debt to one of the world's largest crime clans. Forced into an opportunistic suicide mission when a terrorist EMP attack turns the city into the world’s largest and most dangerous Zero Grav racing track and reliant on a sassy, unstable internal A.I. called IRIS, Theo is forced to encounter some of the continent’s most colourful characters on his journey to pull off an impossible heist. Unable to trust his own mind and the motives of those around him while dealing with a crippling synthoid-narco addiction, Theo will have to take his driving and his sanity closer to the edge than ever before if he is to get out alive. Created by Lewis Carter and the award-winning team behind The Dex Legacy, BURNOUT is a high-octane drag race across an original new sci-fi world.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250314-01
Lost/Thread - Horror Serial Audio Book
A tight-knit group of college friends sets out to document the unexplained, following cryptic online posts that hint at hidden truths. Their curiosity drives them to perform a ritual—one they believe will open the door to something bigger. What starts as a calculated experiment quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. Reality begins to shift, blurring the lines between the known and the unknown.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250321-01
Purgatory, Missouri - Occult and Supernatural, Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
"Purgatory, Missouri" is a supernatural thriller that asks the question: can sleep and the Afterlife collide? In "Purgatory, Missouri", an epileptic woman falls into a coma and finds herself in a grimy, rundown carnival, where the sky is grey and danger is everywhere. Each Newcomer gradually loses their memories of who they were while the carnival itself seems to be ripping apart. What are those cameras on the tall poles? Who operates that phone booth? Why do people meander aimlessly in a constant state of terror? Trouble is everywhere - are you ready?
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250317-01
The Gospel of Haven - Horror Serial Audio Book
The Gospel of Haven is a horror podcast exploring the intersection of faith and anatomy after the end of the world. A cult has thrived inside the living body of the god they worship, But as their shelter starts to crumble, devotion won’t be enough to keep them safe.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250314-02
The Machine - Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
Twelve contestants enter a reality TV show, but when people start dying off every week, the survivors have to find a way out. Along the way, they uncover secrets about themselves, each other, and the mastermind behind it all. The truth may be much more than they ever could have dreamed.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250305-04
OTHER NEW RELEASES
Cherry Lake - Crime and Mystery, Occult and Supernatural Serial Audio Drama
Cherry Lake is the first-ever scripted radio drama from Hip Dad Radio—an 11-part mystery series blending small-town secrets, supernatural suspense, and dark humor.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250313-01
CODA - Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
Una tormenta solar de proporciones gigantescas va a impactar nuestro planeta. Los científicos coinciden en que las consecuencias van a ir más allá de la destrucción de la red eléctrica. El escenario es apocalíptico. La alerta se emite quince minutos antes del evento y el pánico se desata. Pero en quince minutos las vidas pueden torcerse, las historias entrecruzarse y la suerte cambiar. Quince minutos es mucho tiempo.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250315-02
Consuela, Bandit Queen of California - Comedy, Western Serial Audio Drama
Consuela, bandit queen of California, mainatins an impenetrable personna as of Dona Maria Carola de la Casta Nets De Su Mama, a local land baron and fixture of the community. She uses her position to rob from from the rich, the newly arriving North Americans, to give to the poor, the displaced Latino population, until the arrival of Mary Burnett threatens her plans. Will Mary figure is out? Will anyone believe her? What will the role of an unspeakable blemish shared by Consuela and Dona Maria play? And does Mary's finance look that good on a horse?
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250223-02
Dungeons & Dragons Out of the Abyss Storytellers' Tales - Fantasy Longform Dungeons & Dragons Audio RPG
indulge in a unique blend of humor and terror within the gloomy world of the Underdark. Our DM, Hulkman, will take you on a thrilling journey filled with heartfelt moments and hair-raising encounters.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250305-03
Fortune - Science fiction Serial Audio Drama
When Alice is kidnapped from Earth by an extraterrestrial ship, she doesn’t expect to be rescued by the long haul cargo ship Fortune. While Alice gets to know the ship's misfit crew, strange dreams lead her to believe some know more about her circumstance than they let on. With a months long journey back to Earth ahead of her, she must decide who to trust and where she truly belongs.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250315-01
Jurassic Terrors: Haunting Stories of Dinosaurs - Adventure Anthology Audio Book
Experience Jurassic Terrors like never before! Based on the spine-chilling book, this episodic audio series brings each terrifying tale to life with immersive sound design and a haunting original score by Joe Hodgin. From velociraptors stalking in the shadows to monstrous sharks lurking in the depths, every episode pulls you into a world where prehistoric beasts reign once more. Perfect for dinosaur enthusiasts, horror lovers, and thrill-seekers alike, this podcast delivers cinematic storytelling that will keep you coming back for more.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250320-01
Love Is A Verb - Thriller and Psychological Oneshots Blood On My Name Audio RPG
A Found Footage style audiodrama Actual Play driven by the TTRPG ‘Blood on my Name, which was written by Kienna Shaw and Jason Cutrone.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250317-04
Princesses of the Realms - Fantasy Longform Perils & Princesses Audio RPG
An actual play podcast that's short and sweet just like our Princesses (most of them).
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250203-05
Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast - Occult and Supernatural Serial Audio Drama
They told us monsters weren’t real. That myths were just stories to keep us up at night. But what if they were wrong? Buried in forgotten attics, locked away in an ancient lockbox, and hidden deep within the shadows of my family’s history lie journals. Journals that whisper secrets humanity was never meant to know. Accounts of creatures that lurk just beyond the edge of our understanding—beasts, legends, and horrors that defy explanation. What you’re about to hear is no story. It’s evidence. Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction. But be warned: Once you’ve seen the monsters, they’ve seen you too. I’m your host, Michael… let’s begin.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250203-06
RPG Underground - Multigenre Oneshots Multiple Audio RPG
RPG Underground provides video and podcast episodes of our actual play RPG sessions using a variety of different systems with original and published scenarios and campaigns.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250310-04
Say I Slew Them Not: An Adult Queer Fantasy Noir Podcast - Fantasy, Noir Serial Audio Drama
Say That I Slew Them Not is an adult queer fantasy noir where Les Miserables meets Peaky Blinders plus anthro crocodiles. Kingsley, an anthro crocodile rebel leader, is being tried for war crimes he definitely committed. To save his life (and maybe stop WWIII - no guarantees though), he’ll manipulate Alex, a traumatized journalist whose wife Kingsley tortured, into publishing classified documents that will implicate the rich and powerful in war crimes of their own. What? He’s done worse.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250318-01
Seré Tus Ojos T1 - Thriller and Psychological Serial Audio Drama
Maeva Nazari es una chica invidente que buscaba el amor en una app de citas. Su vida da un giro de 180º cuando conoce a Nasser, un hombre misterioso y embaucador que cambiará para siempre su futuro.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250131-03
The Hills - Storytelling, Occult and Supernatural Serial Audio Book
’The Hills’, a new podcast by Cryptic Wallaby, is a speculative fiction offering featuring supernatural themes. When the people of Riverdell start noticing an uptick in weird phenomena they start investigating. They are not prepared for what they find.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20241228-03
The Infinite Worlds of Ella Jane - Fantasy Serial Audio Drama
Ella Jane Flores, EJ to her friends, falls into a swimming pool at a disappointing house party and wakes up on a mysterious train in another dimension.
AF Link: https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20250317-02