Postcards From Another World: An Audio Drama

12/20/22 • 42 min

Making 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 audio play competition.

In Postcards from Another World by Frasier Armitage you heard
Sarah Golding as Lyra
Marie-Claire Wood as Neeva
Warren Graham as Zabo
Emily Inkpen as the computer
Rhiannon Armitage as the Lunasetti spaceport announcer
Chris Gregory as Privik.

Production, sound design and editing were by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories
The original score was composed and performed by Chris Gregory
Sound effects were from Freesound.org
Casting advice, actor coaching and beta listening were by Frasier Armitage.

You can find out more about Frasier Armitage and his work by visiting his website here https://frasierarmitage.com/
You can follow Frasier on twitter here https://twitter.com/FrasierArmitage
And Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/frasierarmitage/

You can contact and hire our lead actors by visiting them online
Sarah Golding https://sarahgoldingvoiceactorandmore.weebly.com/
Marie-Claire Wood https://linktr.ee/MarieClaireWood
Warren Graham https://twitter.com/wg973
Emily Inkpen https://www.emilyinkpen.com/

The script for Postcards from Another World by Frasier Armitage was the winner of the 2022 Pen to Print audio play competition. We would like to thank Pen to print for their support in the making of this drama and for sponsoring this annual competition. The 2023 competition is open for entries now. We are looking for scripts of around half an hour (4- 5000 words) and the competition is open to UK residents only. You have until 31st March to submit your entires and you can find out more and enter the competition here
https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/competitions-2023/

We hope you’ve enjoyed listening to Postcards From Another World. Please join us in 2023 for more audio drama, poetry and fiction podcasts You can subscribe by searching for alternative stories in your favourite podcast app.

If you’ve enjoyed this audio drama please check out our other science fiction , fantasy and cli fi productions. Here’s a link to a podchaser playlist https://www.podchaser.com/lists/sci-fi-and-climate-fiction-on-alternative-stories-107aDoFzmM

You’ll also enjoy our science fiction serial drama The Dex Legacy by Emily Inkpen – search The Dex Legacy in your favourite podcast app to listen and subscribe.
https://www.thedexlegacy.com/

We’d like to end this podcast with a recommendation for an audio drama we think you’ll enjoy.. Set in the wilds of British Columbia, Darkstead is a fantasy crime drama by writer / director Lucy Gib Smith. You can listen and subscribe to Darkstead here https://www.darkstead.com/

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You’ll also enjoy our science fiction serial drama The Dex Legacy by Emily Inkpen – search The Dex Legacy in your favourite podcast app to listen and subscribe.
https://www.thedexlegacy.com/

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The Gathering : An Audio Drama

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When 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 a night together in the abandoned house...

Content warning : This drama contains strong language and depictions of peril and horror.

In The Gathering by Lewis Carter you can hear

Miztli Rose as Sasha
Phoebe Batteson Brown as Gemma
Alex White as Tom
Chris Gregory as Clark
Sarah Golding as Mrs Harrington
Marie-Claire Wood as Rosie
And Emily Inkpen as the nurse
Other voices were played by members of the cast.

Production, sound design, music and editing were by Chris Gregory

Recordings of Sasha and Gemma were by Phoebe Batteson Brown

Casting was by Chris Gregory and Lewis Carter

Sound effects were from Freesound.org and created by the team

The presenter in this podcast is Tiffany Clare

The script for The Gathering is copyright Lewis Carter and may not be reproduced in whole or part without the consent of the author.

Lewis Carter is an award winning writer and filmmaker living and working in South Wales.
You can follow Lewis on twitter here https://twitter.com/fictionist4hire
And Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/fictionist4hire/

Miztli Rose and Phoebe Batteson-Brown are actors and comedians based in London.
You can find out more about Phoebe here https://www.spotlight.com/6773-7863-8669
And follow her on twitter here https://twitter.com/phoebebbrown
And Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/phoebe_batteson/
Read more about Miztli here http://www.miztliroseneville.com/
Follow Miztli on twitter here https://twitter.com/RoseNeville1
And Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/miztli_rose/
Phoebe and Miztli work together as the comedy duo “Ladylikes” and you can find out more about them here https://ladylikescomedy.wixsite.com/ladylikes and listen to an Alternative Stories Podcast featuring Ladylikes here https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/3479755-ladylikes-in-lockdown

Emily Inkpen, Alex White, Chris Gregory and Tiffany Clare have all appeared in the science fiction drama The Dex Legacy which is also produced by Alternative Stories. Find out more about The Dex Legacy, listen and subscribe via our website here https://www.thedexlegacy.com/

If you’ve enjoyed The Gathering please check out more Alternative Stories drama via this Podchaser link https://www.podchaser.com/profile/lists/16596/edit
Listen out for more drama from Alternative Stories in the coming weeks.

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"Home" : A New Novel by Cailean Steed

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Thank 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 of a repressive religious cult who returns to rescue her sister.
Excerpts from the audiobook of “Home” in this episode were read by Paula Masterton. The audiobook is published on the same day as the hardback and e-book versions of the novel.

The interviewer was Chris Gregory

Sound design, editing and music were also by Chris Gregory

To find out more about Cailean Steed you can visit their website here https://www.caileansteed.com/

And follow them on social media here
https://twitter.com/CaileanSteed
https://www.instagram.com/caileansteedauthor/

To order a copy of Home via the Raven Bloomsbury website follow this link https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fiction/crime-thriller-mystery/
And follow Raven Bloomsbury on twitter here : https://twitter.com/bloomsburyraven

If you have enjoyed this podcast please subscribe in your favourite podcast app if you haven’t already. Just search for alternative stories wherever you listen to podcasts. Coming up soon we have a podcast about working class writers with Amber Hall, a new audio drama “The Best of Men” by Amy Boucher and a feature on the UK Ghost Story Festival.

You may also enjoy the other podcasts made by Alternative Stories
The Seren Poetry Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2035359
Write On! Audio, a podcast aimed at writers which we make for Pen to Print : https://anchor.fm/pentoprint
And our science fiction serial drama The Dex Legacy https://www.thedexlegacy.com/

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