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Kingdom: The Musical



Full cast Science fiction Serial Audio Drama


Synopsis:

Commence on an exciting journey of a multi-billionaire couple named Kimberley & Robert Pine who learn unexpectedly through Kim's schizophrenia that they must endure travelling through time & space and with the support of a super "Designer" army are set on obtaining their revenge against Emperor Augustus from the Roman Empire for originally losing the war in Egypt!

Their friend Dr. Daniel Scott from MIT facilitates their targets, but what are his ultimate ambitions in the end?

Find out everything in an eight episode podcast of Kingdom: The Musical.


Format: Audio Drama

Continuity: Serial

Writing: Scripted

Voices: Full cast

Narrator: Third Person

Genres: Science fiction

Framing device: Musical

Completion status: Finished

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Episodes:

Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 8

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:05:38 GMT

Chapters 14 (part B) & 15

Kimberley Pine starts to have doubts about her original revengeful plans and starts to form feelings for Augustus and meets him covertly at night in the dungeons when Robert is fast asleep. She explains to Augustus what her plans initially were, much to his intrigue, surprise & disgust, but over time he seems to forgive her and they both fall in love with another. Kim is depressed after Augustus is executed and forms new plans to fix everything again that she originally created.

It seems as though Dr. Daniel Scott has different plans which clash with Kimberley's and he attempts to blackmail her by informing Rob of what both she and Augustus have been up to behind his back. She manages to escape from Dan by travelling through time, but he being a clever individual is hot on her heels.

Kim attempts to influence Octavian's (young Augustus) thoughts for the future to warn him of what is going to happen but Dan gets in the way....again!

She wakes up in a hospital post a scuffle/fight between Octavian and Dan being all confused in the presence of her apparent friend Amy but it appears as though all is not as it seems and Dan is close by yet again!!!! Kim travels through time to escape Dan.

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Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 7

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:40:13 GMT

Chapters 13 & 14 (part A)

In order for Cleopatra and Marc Anthony to achieve their political and territorial domination, all are now focusing on designing & harvesting this super-human "Designer" army,

Robert Pine is pushing for the designer army individuals to possess a self-destruct button as an insurance policy to protect the human race for the future. The first stage, a new digital army is to distract Augustus along with his Generals with his plans to overturn Egypt's rulers, their hands now being too full to achieve their goals. Roman Legions are being commanded back to Rome, leaving the bare minimum of Legions across the Empire.

The Romans become increasingly suspicious of this strange army and with the capture of one of them, they inadvertently discover that something is not quite as they originally thought it was. However, more and more of these intruders keep on attacking Rome for years to come, eventually with Augustus (the Emperor) being captured, emprisioned in the dungeons and being sentenced to death by Cleopatra & Marc Anthony.

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Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 6

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:49:24 GMT

Chapter 12

Samson rides the chariot for both Rob & Kim as passengers to enable them to travel to the Royal Palace with the intention of meeting both Marc Anthony & Cleopatra. However, when they enter the palace, they initially struggle to find Cleopatra but when they do, Rob has to decide along with Kim whether is a good idea for him to approach her or not, much to Kim's annoyance!

Rob & Kim must convince Cleopatra & Marc Anthony with great difficulty at first that they shall require their assistance if they are to win the war against Augustus, the existing Emperor of the Roman Empire. This shall be achieved using a super-human army of one million soldiers and distracting Augustuses plans.

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Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 5

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:28:09 GMT

Chapter 11

The crew of the spaceship Discovery 3020 are excited returning back to earth from the Kuiper Belt to all of their families. After twelve weeks, Dr. Daniel Scott has enough of this special hydrocarbon to enable the time machine to fully function. In order to safely test the machine, they send a humanoid called Amy back in time, followed then by a living chimpanzee but some strange things are occurring post teleportation in time which both Dan and Robert Pine try to figure out before fully validation of the device.

Unbeknownst to Dan, both Max and Sarah Stone were hiding in the lab one day and had figured out how to operate the time machine, Sarah decides to use this machine to rewrite history and rectify her recent misfortunes.

Both Kimberley & Robert Pine go back to the 1st August 30 BC using the time machine to Cairo, Egypt, but it appears as though Dan has been meddling in the background with DNA manipulation to conceal the fact that Rob & Kim are who they really are. This has both surprising & advantageous result for the pair as they approach the royal palace.

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Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 4

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:04:49 GMT

Chapter 9 & 10

Although the crew aboard the spaceship Discovery 3020 have successfully travelled through the wormhole without the spaceship breaking up and thus reducing their journey time to the Kuiper Belt by 6 months, it's not without some consequences for the crews minds!

They are closer to their final part of the space travel mission, to mine for this special hydrocarbon on asteroids within the Kuiper Belt by landing their shuttles on them, however Sarah Stone (one of the pilot & team supervisors) gets into a lot of trouble by taking too many risks along the way, Max Stone (her husband) must now save the day but sadly Sarah Stone must face the consequences in a tribunal post the event!

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Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 3

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:38:09 GMT

Chapters 7 & 8

Dr. Daniel Scott informs Robert Pine that in order for a fully functioning time machine to be built, a special hydrocarbon is required for the machine.

Unfortunately, this hydrocarbon needs to be mined within the Kuiper Belt region of the solar system, an asteroid belt six billion kilometres distance away from earth.

Therefore a spaceship (Discovery 3020) with highly advanced technology requires to be built and a large crew are on a mission to acquire this hydrocarbon within a two year space travelling period, however if the crew risk travelling through a wormhole, it's assumed that the crew will reduce their space travel time by up to six months, but it's all theoretical as no-one has ever performed this previously !

However many members of the crew are nervous about this wormhole risk and a ballot is held to evaluate acceptance of the risk with Captain John Arrow highlighting the dangers & risks. They all decide to go for it, but how will this wormhole entry go for them in the end?

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Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 2

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:21:26 GMT

Chapters 3 to 6

It's the year 2997 and Kimberley Pine recovers from a schizophrenic attack, she believes that she is Cleopatra reincarnated & claims that she has recently lost Marc Anthony to suicide back in the Roman period! She tries to convince her multi-billionare husband, Robert Pine that he is also Marc Anthony reincarnated, much to his disbelief and also that they need to go back in time to get revenge against Augustus (the back then Emperor) using a one million legion 'designer' super-human army to defeat Augustus's army and claim back Egypt!

Kim introduces Robert to Dr. Daniel Scott in the USA, a professor at MIT who is currently building a very basic & early form of a time machine. Rob gets persuaded into investing in this skunk project in order to build a fully functioning time machine. and also funds the super-human army via an old fashioned and newly purchased Formula One business, which Rob ends up driving races in for his own pleasure.

Rob successfully raises the necessary funds over time & organises a rock concert in celebration of his and Kim's success!

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Kingdom: The Musical - Episode 1

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:22:54 GMT

Chapters 1 & 2

Captain John Arrow and Jason Burns are in the bridge of Discovery 3020, the spaceship which is about to enter a wormhole near the Kuiper Belt, something that has never been done before by the human race, will they achieve their journey successfully or will the spaceship breakup?

We then get transported back in time over three thousand years earlier to the Roman Republic where Caesar is Emperor but the senate are far from happy with his tyrannical rule and deal with him swiftly! Watch as Octavian and Marc Anthony fall out with each other and what this means for Egypt, Marc and Cleopatra who is the Queen of Egypt.

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