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Hearthbound | An Untelling of the Odyssey


6 episodes


Synopsis:

Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she's running from... or running towards.

Hearthbound is a 10-episode folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration. You coming our way?


Language: English

Format: Audio Drama

Continuity: Serial

Writing: Scripted

Voices: Full cast

Narrator: None

Genres: Post-apocalypse, Classics, Western

Framing device: Musical

Soundscape: Sound effects & music

Creator demographics: / BAME/BIMPOC / Female / LGBTQ+

Character demographics: / BAME/BIMPOC / Female / LGBTQ+

Content warnings: / Explicit language / Violence

Country of origin: United States

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Episodes:

Episode 5: Charybdis

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Odessa shelters from a storm...

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Content Warning - mentions of grief, mentions of death, mentions of abandonment, mild swearing.

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Episode 4: Calypso

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Odessa enters a labyrinth...

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Content Warnings - brief gun violence, excessive swearing, mentions of death, mentions of grief.

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Episode 3: Stasimon

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Odessa tags along...

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Episode 2: Trinacria

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

Odessa meets a one-eyed shepherd...

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Content Warnings - mild swearing.

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Episode 1: Telemachus

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Odessa is not alone...

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Content Warnings - mild swearing.

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Trailer: "I'm Nobody"

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:50:09 +0000

Come along with us at hearthboundpod.com. [Transcript]

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