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UK Indie Audio Drama

The audio drama scene is exploding right now and while Audible and the BBC are pumping out the most content, there are gems aplenty amongst the independents.

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tommcnally

Created July 10, 2020

Updated September 07, 2024

11 Likes

18 Followers

  1. The Other 1%

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    Paranormal Stories with Attitude.The Other 1% brings cutting-edge story-telling directly to your ears, wherever you happen to be. Smart, edgy, contemporary fiction, that defies convention.Breath-taking, powerful, epic: sometimes surprising
    FictionScience Fiction

  2. Gamma Radio

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    A comedy radio show set in a post-apocalyptic UK wasteland. Join your hosts Dave and Fog on Good Vibes - a light entertainment show - attempting to bring a bit of hope and cheer to the wasteland. Unfortunately, a rampant influx of angry mutants
    FictionComedy

  3. Supermarket Matters

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    Supermarket Matters follows the lives of some of the locals as they adjust to their first supermarket – a Grab’n’Go – as it opens and changes everything.
    Comedy

  4. Wooden Overcoats

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    Award Winning Sitcom - Start with Season 1 Episode 1Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family's failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find everyone
    Audio DramaComedyFiction

  5. The Magnus Archives

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    “Make your statement, face your fear.” A weekly horror fiction podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join Jonathan Sims as he explores the arch
    ArtsPerforming Arts

  6. The Saga of the European King

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    An audio drama that about a king of Medieval Europe who embarks on a quest and learns a lot about the world on the way, which wasn't really the stated the goal. The goal was to murder Winter.Performed by Amy Sutton, Josh Crisp, Tom McNally an
    ComedyFiction

  7. Cornucopia Radio Podcast

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    Hello and welcome, we are ‘Cornucopia Radio’ and we make amazing audio! We’re an open platform for writers and performers; allowing anybody from anywhere in the world to create original sketch comedy, audio drama, monologues, poetry, streams of
    Audio DramaComedy

  8. Action Science Theatre

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    The world’s greatest podcast combining action, science and, undeniably, theatre
    Audio DramaComedy

  9. The Tower

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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
    FictionScience FictionDrama

  10. We Fix Space Junk

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    'We Fix Space Junk' follows seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange and wonderful beings as they carry out odd jobs on the fringes of the law.A female-led sci-fi c
    FictionScience Fiction

  11. Oblivity

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    A comedy sci-fi series ||Commander Falconer is missing the war...Following years in front line combat, a decorated hero is posted to the remote ice plains of Pluto on her toughest mission yet: to oversee a small, dysfunctional research team.
    FictionScience Fiction

  12. The Amelia Project

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    The Amelia Project is a secret agency that fakes its clients' deaths, then lets them reappear with a brand new identity! A black comedy full of secrets, twists... and cocoa. The series starts as a succession of interviews with clients who want
    FictionDrama

  13. Diary of a Space Archivist

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    Sam archives space. Yep. It's pretty boring... until she finds an alien-bat-thing hiding inside her robot companion. How will she keep the cute, and definitely not terrifying, creature safe from the very corporation that employs her? After a
    FictionScience FictionComedy

  14. MarsCorp

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    MarsCorp is a 12-part scripted sci-fi comedy podcast about Station Supervisor E.L. Hob’s first year at MarsCorp, a terraforming colony established on the red planet in 2070.MarsCorp is a Definitely Human production.Visit www.DefinitelyHuman.co.
    ArtsPerforming Arts

  15. Portentous Perils in the 23rd Century

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    Future Dystopian Steampunk SciFi adventures with an intrepid journalist, her aunt and a curiously attractive Media Sales Executive.
    Audio DramaComedy

  16. The Orphans

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    The Orphans is a cinematic sci-fi audio drama about survival in a harsh universe: castaways on a hostile world, A.I.s with unprecedented emotions, strangers who share faces, love and loss in a far-flung future. Each season explores a new vantag
    FictionScience Fiction

  17. Stellar Firma

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    “Build your planet, keep in line… also clones."Stellar Firma is a weekly Science Fiction, Comedy podcast following the misadventures of Stellar Firma Ltd.'s highest born but lowest achieving planetary designer Trexel Geistman and his bewildered
    ComedyFiction

  18. The Bunker

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    The Bunker is a breakfast radio show for the post-apocalypse generation! One hundred years after a cataclysmic event, Tom, Dave and David decide to host a one-hour radio programme from their underground bunker, complete with guests, interviews,
    FictionArts

  19. Seren

  20. Down

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    Down is a 24-part science-fiction series from Definitely Human about an expedition into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is elegant, state-of-the-art, and capable of wi
    FictionScience Fiction

  21. Benlunar

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    A fantasy story podcast suitable for all ages. Follow the exciting journey of Lilian Lausanne and the town of Benlunar told week by week. Every episode is a new chapter that contains mystery, magic and music. Download for free today and begin y
    FictionKids

  22. The Prickwillow Papers

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    Sylda, a young half-elf, has just graduated from the College of Mages. And, joy of joys, she has also moved back in with her parents. Stuck in a dead-end town with no idea what to do, she begins writing a diary, hoping something interesting wil
    FictionComedyFantasy

  23. Victoriocity

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    A detective comedy drama || Even Greater London, 1887. In this vast metropolis, Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investigate a murder, only to find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy of impossible proportions.
    FictionComedy

  24. Flying in the Face of Fate

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    This is a fantasy, LGBT+ narrative podcast which tells the story of two men travelling their way across the continent. Lin Chasso is the newest generation of a family stretching back thousands upon thousands of years, maintaining the largest an
    ArtsFictionDrama

  25. Ragged Scratch Podcast

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    The Ragged Scratch Podcast is a new writing night… in podcast form! Each season we bring you 12 bite-sized audio dramas over 6 episodes, plus interviews with the creatives involved. Like a chocolate box of audio goodies, we cover a range of g
    ArtsPerforming Arts

  26. Dashing Onions Audio

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    Dashing Onions Audio creates original audio drama miniseries and one-off plays, focusing on stories with elements of oddness, mythology and the supernatural.
    ArtsPerforming Arts

  27. Quid Pro Euro

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    Start with episode one.In 1995, a number of video tapes were made for employees of the European Union. Through the course of the series, they learned what they could expect to happen in the twenty-first century.​ The audio from these tapes is
    Fiction

  28. The People Outside

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    Welcome to Corby-on-Sea, a typical English seaside town on lock-down. Tune into the community radio station where Stephanie and her callers will be tackling the issues of the day such as: where are all the pets disappearing to, who is that man
    Audio DramaFiction

  29. Blood Culture

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    Explosive techno-thriller from Resonance 104.4FM. A’isha is just about holding down her job at the tech giant Meta before her old friend bursts in and accuses her boss of murder. She has to face up to what she has become, the lies that are wove
    Fiction

  30. Red Valley

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    A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present & future, & trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2. 
    FictionScience Fiction

  31. A Scottish Podcast the Audio Drama Series

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    'A Scottish Podcast' is a serialised modern audio drama.It chronicles the story of Lee, a washed up former radio DJ who launches a paranormal investigation podcast.Lee wants to see his show The Terror Files mentioned up there alongside podc
    FictionDrama

  32. Outliers - Stories from the edge of history

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    Outliers is an historic fiction podcast that explores how big events filter down and are viewed and shaped by the people in the shadows. Themes of otherness, change, gender and the meaning of power are explored through the eyes of characters wh
    FictionDramaHistory

  33. Drama in 10

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    Drama in 10 is an indie drama studio crafting a monthly episodic audio fiction series. Studio gatekeepers deny our art, so we’ve become the creators and gatekeepers of our art.
    FictionDrama

  34. 100 Words of Astounding Beauty

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    A flash-fiction podcast where a handful of writers each make a story with a limited wordcount in a limited time.Each writer has just an audio prompt and five minutes to make a first draft. Then a fellow writer will give them the edits and sug
    FictionDramaArts

  35. Gran-Thing

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    Join Sophie and her grandma as they drink tea, eat biscuits and read through issues of Man-Thing comics from the Essential Man-Thing.
    ArtsVisual Arts

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