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Top 59 Audio Drama Podcasts
May 21, 2024
The Best Audio Drama Podcasts from millions of podcasts available on the Goodpods platform and ranked by listens, ratings, comments, subscriptions and shares.
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HAUNTED: The Audio Drama tells the story of reclusive alcoholic writer James Hunter, bubbly enthusiastic podcaster Abigail Corbin and police officer Dan Cowell as they investigate strange and seemingly unexplainable phenomenon. Told in a classic serial format with episodes raging from suspenseful thrillers, to spine tingling horrors to laugh-out-loud comedies, HAUNTED: The Audio Drama is a horror adventure series that feels like Doctor Who crossed with The X Files.
Season 2 begins on April 16th 2023 and sees our trio playing a nationwide game of cat and mouse as they try to capture the wicked occultist Karl Trevino following his deadly antics in Greenvale in season 1. As they push further and further into the unexplained however, Dan and Abigail are forced to confront the idea that their friend James Hunter might not be who he says he is.
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A science fiction, horror audio drama podcast that follows Silas Caldwell, a linguist, who finds himself employed by VINCULA, a biotech company with an unearthly set of artifacts in their possession. Alongside a team of scientists and explorers, Silas plunges into the world beyond the Breach, and is touched by terrors beyond his wildest dreams.
Syntax Season 4 underway!
This show is a full cast audio drama, and has adult themes and horror settings. Made by Twin Strangers Productions. For more audio dramas, go to twinstrangersproductions.com
Website: syntaxpodcast.com
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The Dex Legacy is a full cast science fiction drama set on the planet SP714. The spaceships are dead, the ancestors are silent, and human beings are the same as ever. Dex Island is about to become a major player on the world stage. Weapons manufacturer and President, Nathaniel Dex, works with his colleagues to run his company and steer planet-wide politics. It’s a game of chess on a global scale and his adopted and enhanced children, Varian, Isra and Ren will be key players. But unleashing three teenage super soldiers on the world comes with more complications than anyone anticipated. It’s Game of Thrones meets Dune with a hefty dose of dark humour in this sci-fi audio drama, featuring a diverse cast of characters you’ll love to hate, and never forget. The Dex Legacy audio drama is written by Emily Inkpen as a prequel series to her trilogy of dark political science fiction novels. You can find out more about The Dex Legacy, buy merch and support the show at https://www.thedexlegacy.com/
In Erset La Tari, life ranges from the absurdly unexpected to the darkly intense, taking audio drama listeners on a roller coaster across its diverse landscapes.
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Chuckle along to "The Nymphaeum" as Sangha Adrastea and Brother Ravi, two clumsy researchers, bumble through a portal to another plane of existence , all in the name of seeking divine guidance.
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Join the ruckus in "The Orillian Regiment" in Sada Emedu. When over enthusiastic mercenaries meet a foreign warship, it's a battle of misunderstandings in the comedy of errors which ensues.
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Indulge in the drama of "Wide-End" where high society collides with the denizens from the 'Untouchables Camp'. It's riches, reptiles, and it’s treachery!
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In the eerie "The Ansa Enclave", a mismatched group bound by personal ties venture into the haunting Wildland. With every step, shadows of their past intertwine with the enigma of missing children.
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Journey into the Darklands in "Anderkant" Beneath layers of rock lies a world of ancient secrets, where Min-Min's battle against time and the scheming Lessee will grip your heart and confuse your brain.
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And "The Steg" reveals a city's hidden darkness. Kidnappings, resurrections, and a sinister plot! When ex-mercenaries, detectives and magical story telling devices collide, mysteries unravel, taking everyone along for the ride.
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Six tales. Plenty of action, intrigue and comedy. Welcome to Erset La Tari, where every episode is a new horizon. And remember, the journey doesn't stop here. Dive deeper with monthly episodes, and for those seeking extra tales and behind-the-scenes magic, check out:
[https://patreon.com/NoReturnAD]
Welcome to Nother Realm, a dimension of magic and adventure fueled by tabletop RPGs. Join us as we weave tales filled with action, mystery, drama, and plenty of comedy!
Season one follows the adventures of Archibald Theodore Cromwell, Six, Margbark Smothe, and Osiris Teasun as they try to deal with the ghosts of their pasts and the mysterious disappearances plaguing the kingdom of Attoria. They’ll soon find that the things they care about the most sometimes disappear like they were never even there at all.
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Avg Length 88m
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A group of dangerously codependent British misfits gather around a microphone, sip cocktails, and seek a glorious demise in a Dungeons & Dragons-themed actual play comedy podcast.
With a cast that includes a failed Crocoborn sorcerer, turned children’s party entertainer, a dirty old human priest, on the brink of the afterlife, a retired half-orc police officer, a sassy blue Tiefling, surrounded by bees and a retired Gnome archer with PTSD. So, if you like your plot lines thin and crispy, and your language to be saltier than a sailor's beard, welcome aboard!
Disappointing the TTRPG & D&D Community since 2020. Not suitable for little ears. This show is mostly improvised and entirely inappropriate. Listener discretion is advised.
A brand new episode every Tuesday.
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In a world where beasts and entities have integrated into society, a group of outcasts set out on the run after a discovery that could change the existence of entities everywhere.
Lou sends out broadcasts in hopes of reaching an audience with a warning of what's to come. Unfortunately, the listener she reaches might not be the kind of person she's hoping to find.
The Moon Crown is a full-cast, weird fiction and horror audio drama meant for adult audiences, and is based on Filipino mythology with a little western mythology mixed in.
More information can be found on themooncrown.com.
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Starship Q Star is an award-winning sci-fi comedy: When a space agency sends the “first all woman and non-binary crew” on a blatant PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the universe. Lead by Co-Captains (and exes) Aurelia and Sim, Starship Q Star follows this madcap crew on their quest across the galaxy in search of a new home... which is basically one hilarious mishap after the other.
Recently winning Silver at the Signal Awards for Best Writing (Fiction), this Aussie sitcom has picked up awards across the globe including Best Fiction Podcast at Sydney Web Fest, Best Comedy at LA Webfest, Outstanding Comedy at New Jersey Web Fest, and took out the 2023 Audio Fiction World Cup.
Three all new animated adventures are out now on YouTube! Supported by the ABC and Screen Australia, you can learn more and watch them here: https://starshipqstar.com/animated
Created by co-writing couple Meegan May & Lauren Anderson, Starship Q Star stars: Annie Lumsden, Drey Mendez, Lena Moon, Sunanda, Scott Limbrick, Isha Menon, and Ben Russell.
For More:
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The Heart Pyre is an interactive epic fantasy audio drama about mysterious fires, political corruption and long forgotten Gods.
19 Episodes
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Avg Length 21m
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Latest episode 7 months ago
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Liminal Criminals is a fictionalized true crime podcast detailing the bizarre, egregious, and completely fake exploits of the world's most notorious, and most nonexistent, people. It updates! Sometimes! Find us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/LiminalCast
A goddess, a cowboy, and a conman. Far from friends. This fantasy-western follows an unexpected adventure across the American West. Created by Maria Fernanda Vidaurrazaga and JT Lachausse.
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Avg Length 30m
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Latest episode 8 years ago
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In southern California, just outside Hollywood, there is a most unusual hotel. A hotel dedicated to the golden age of cinema and the departures of its most influential and notorious players. It is a destination that spotlights the manners in which these men and women of Hollywood perished. The rooms are decorated with an array of evidence and clues, unique to each death, and fitted with a cast of department store manikins which stand in for the major roles involved - Forensic precision made kitschy and accessible to all. Each episode we will present to you one of these rooms, and rouse your im
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Observable Radio is a found footage anthology podcast of retro sci-fi and analog horror from Cameron Suey and Phil van Hest.
When he discovers something beneath the static of the worlds’s communication network, an unnamed Observer begins to catalog and record the strange signals that should not exist...
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238 Episodes
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Avg Length 60m
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Latest episode 6 days ago
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Alestes likes to keep her head down while she works as a merchant, couriering deliveries and carrying travelers to destinations across the seas. Only as her travelers gradually become permanent crewmates, she realises her ship has become a floating museum, laboratory, vault of repatriated ‘treasures’, and a chef’s kitchen.
After spending most of her life with the understanding that nothing changes, no matter how hard you fight, Alestes is faced with a choice: Will she use her new network of allies to build safe harbour and potentially a future for her new community, or will she once again put her head down and drown in her sea of excuses...
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Learn more about Factory Theatre by visiting www.factorytheatre.ca
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USA TODAY’s critically acclaimed investigative podcast about power in American cities.
Season 1, Chicago: A black neighborhood fights back when a mysterious man with mob ties builds an illegal dump across the street from an elementary school. Along the way they confront corrupt politicians, apathetic bureaucrats—and a secret undercover FBI investigation.
Season 2, Reno: A surprising proxy battle for the future of Reno pits a brash strip club kingpin against power brokers in city hall. The winner-takes-all fight could remake the city—and ruin lives in the process.
Live. Laugh. Bite.
Alfie is a nurse working overtime on the night shift in A&E when a patient comes in with her throat torn out. The girl on the gurney is the first of many, baffling staff and horrifying the public. Eventually, Alfie almost becomes another victim of the walking, rotting dead things which have been attacking his patients, but is saved by the same man he saw dripping blood into his patient’s eye. He’s Casper, and he’s a vampire, and now he’s saved Alfie’s life the two of them are inescapably bound together. Neither of them are happy about it, but the draw of each other’s blood is irresistible. Another brush with death later, Alfie must make a choice: death or undeath. He’s not sure which is worse, but whatever he chooses, there’s bound to be blood.
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Blending supernatural horror with noir, the Sleep/Wake Cycle follows estranged twins Isaiah and Rosemary. Their mission, to fulfill a secret government agency's directive to bring the US back from the brink of madness. Born with strange abilities, the twins investigate the wellness of a republic ravaged by the Great Darkness of 1999 - with doomsday cults pervading society, horrific conspiracies spun more from truth than fiction, and a creeping feeling that hope itself has fled the land, the twins have their work cut out for them.
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Avg Length 7m
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A young woman leaves behind her isolated, suffocating existence to climb The Tower, an abandoned relic of a forgotten age, built by a proud king who wanted to rule the sky as well as the land. It stretches up into the sky, through the smog. An experimental audio drama series from Tin Can Audio.
Official Selection - Miami Web Series Festival 2022
Official Selection - Apulia Web Fest 2022
Official Selection - New Jersey Web Festival 2022
Official Selection - Minnesota WebFest 2022
Official Selection - New Zealand WebFest 2022
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Avg Length 28m
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An orphaned monster and his human embark on a search for his family in this fun-for-all-ages comedy about best friends doing kind things for strangers.
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Meet Riley and Render. Roommates. Best friends. There's just one small hitch. Riley is a young, career-focused woman with a little bit of burnout and Render... well, he's a monster. When Render admits feelings of sadness over not knowing who he is or where he comes from, Riley makes a bold choice: find his family, whatever the cost.
Have Monster, Will Travel: they're just two best friends on the adventure of a lifetime.
Have Monster, Will Travel features Jordan Trovillion as Riley, Paul Kerford Wilson as Render, Dave Powell as Professor Bunion and Neil Batra as Taiwan 1000. It is directed by Bridget Leak, written by Trey Tatum, and is produced by Queen City Flash out of Cincinnati, OH.
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Connect with us on twitter and instagram: @queencityflash
More information, including transcripts, can be found at https://www.queencityflash.com/have-monster-will-travelContact info: [email protected]
Lizzie Borden Audio is a new episodic series that appeals to lovers of the dark and macabre nature of a historical true crime investigation from the famous 1892 case. Told from multiple witnesses utilizing the primary source transcripts with short musical interludes, it is the first podcast made entirely from trial testimony with humorous bits of music to accent the absurd and sometimes comical nature of the crime. All work is nonfiction and comes from the trial, the published works of Borden scholars, and the newspapers of the time.
Greg died but the demon Drathralas brought them back for a price. Now forced to kill for a demon,. college student Greg is forced to pair up with the ancient demon Dave. Between budding heads and collecting souls Greg is launched into a world of the occult and the strange. Will he survive college or will he become another soul in damnation.
The Devil's Plaything is a horror comedy audio drama produced by Tlacuache Theater
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A British sitcom podcast about four incompetent souls trying to start their own cult. Can you create a new movement with no ideas, no philosophy, and a leader with the charisma of a plastic plant forgotten in a cupboard? They’ll certainly give it a go.
Contains strong language.
Written by award-winning playwright Paul Adam Levy and performed by an acclaimed comedy theatre cast.
With Carla Segal as Jill, Hannah Meyer as Beatrice, Theo Brignall as Drew, and Joseph Krajewski as Handar.
Find out more: https://www.sectedpodcast.co.uk/
Support and follow links: https://linktr.ee/sectedpodcast
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Avg Length 50m
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Latest episode 19 days ago
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LA’s #1 avant-garde personal development program. Experimental storytelling and comedy. Power, drugs, and mental health. The home of Ask a Sadist, Bite-Sized Erotic Thrillers, and the First Church of the Satanic Buddha. Levity saves lives.
Your host is Emerson Dameron of Venice Beach, California., writer, competitive storyteller, occasional comedian, and possibly some sort of performance artist. I'll let the critics decide.
Regularly scheduled episodes premiere on the first Wednesday of the month on KCHUNG Los Angeles.
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Season Two: the Book of Daelen Gault. During the waning months of the Clone Wars Daelen Gault's young Padawan is taken captive be nefarious forces. The Book of Daelen Gault stars Rob Hunter as Jedi Knight Daelen Gault, Paden Castle as used starship salesman Ghruul, Justin Chapman as the bounty hunter Kreedo, Richard Caposell as Jedi Knight Kenari, and Zakk Saam as the Galaxy Master.
Season One: The Book of Syu Zee. The Clone Wars have ended, and the Jedi Purge has just begun. Set three years after Revenge of the Sith, the Book of Syu Zee follows Paden Castle as Jedi Padawan Syu Zee, Richard Caposell as Clone Trooper Photon and mechanic Krik, BFM as freedom fighter Nelos Kath, Justin Chapman as Bothan spy Fenn, and Rob Hunter as cybernetic surgeon Dr Nimofitz, as they navigate a tyrannical galaxy in search of a lost planet while in turn being hunted by the Empire’s newest weapon, the Inquisitor program.
Star Wars: Knightfall is a fan-made, Saga Edition actual-play podcast set in the Star Wars universe.
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Avg Length 26m
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Latest episode 11 months ago
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(This story is serial in nature. You should start at the first episode.) Spooning in the Apocalypse is a podcast set after the end of days and after the work day has ended. Tune your fictional dial, to the fictional radio network WSPN the Spoon, for the fictional call in style radio show Radiationships...it's fictional. In each episode registered Professor Shaum Defroyen and his co-host, Radd Flink offer advice and solace to Apocalyptic relationships. Digging in and digging it up, whether the callers are learning to love themselves or someone else, Radiationships will tickle the right spot. If the weight of your Apocalypse is too much, let them Apoca-pick you up. Season 2 available now. Welcome to the Confluence. For more go to www.SpooningInTheApocalypse.com
(presented by Cool Skvorsky)
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Latest episode 13 days ago
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An award-winning romantic-dramedy about Veronica (Vee), a recent Melbourne transplant who is swept off her feet by a charming Aussie doctor and has to quickly learn how to navigate love across cultures. Vee is helped along by her newly married cousin and smooth-talking BFF.
Private Affairs was the 2021 Australian Podcast of the Year and Best Fiction podcast. Created, written, directed and produced by Christine "Kix" Mwaturura, starring: Ratidzo Mambo, Ronn Kurtz, Tsungirai Wachenuka, Garikai Jani and Taff. Original music and sound design by Jerry Agbinya. Cover art by Maanya Dhar. Learn more at: www.privateaffairspod.com.
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Audio Drama Podcasts
In recent years, audio drama podcasts have gained a significant following among listeners seeking immersive storytelling experiences. These podcasts offer a unique blend of classic radio drama and modern-day podcasting, transporting listeners to new worlds and delivering captivating performances without relying on visual elements. Audio drama podcasts cover a wide range of genres, from science fiction and fantasy to mystery and horror, with each show offering a distinct sound and style. With the rise of podcasting and the abundance of talented writers, actors, and producers in the industry, audio drama podcasts have become a popular form of entertainment that continues to push the boundaries of audio storytelling.
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So, in this list of the best audio drama podcasts, we've decided to take a different approach. We've scoured the internet for podcasts that challenge our expectations, push the boundaries of the medium, and tell stories that are both engaging and thought-provoking. Our listeners have taken the liberty of rating the top audio podcasts for you. we guarantee they'll leave you with a sense of awe and wonder. So sit back, put on your headphones, and get ready for some mind-bending audio drama goodness!
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Frequently Asked Questions About Audit Drama Podcasts
What is an audio drama podcast?
An audio drama podcast is a type of podcast that tells a fictional story using sound effects, music, and voice actors. It's essentially a radio play that you can listen to on demand. Audio dramas can cover a wide range of genres, from science fiction and fantasy to crime and mystery.
What are some popular audio drama podcasts?
Some popular audio drama podcasts include Welcome to Night Vale, The Bright Sessions, Limetown, The Magnus Archives, and We're Alive.
How are audio dramas different from traditional audiobooks or radio dramas?
Audio dramas differ from traditional audiobooks in that they use sound effects and music to create a more immersive experience. They also often feature a full cast of voice actors, whereas audiobooks are usually narrated by a single person. Audio dramas are similar to radio dramas, but the main difference is that they are distributed as podcasts and can be listened to on demand rather than at a specific broadcast time.
What makes a good audio drama podcast?
A good audio drama podcast should have compelling characters, an engaging plot, and high-quality production values. The voice acting should be top-notch, and the sound effects and music should add to the overall atmosphere of the story. Good pacing is also important - the story should move along at a steady pace without feeling rushed or dragging on too long.
Can audio dramas be educational?
Yes, audio dramas can be educational. While they are primarily a form of entertainment, some audio dramas incorporate historical or scientific facts into their stories. For example, the audio drama podcast "The History of Rome" tells the story of the Roman Empire in an engaging and educational way. "The Bright Sessions" incorporates mental health themes and discussions about therapy into its fictional plot. Additionally, many audio dramas explore complex social issues, such as racism, sexism, and homophobia, which can be both entertaining and thought-provoking.