Alternative Stories and Fake Realities
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities is a podcast designed to promote new and original audio drama, poetry and writing from across the English speaking world. Working with themes we will produce high quality content aimed at providing new perspectives on existing stories and ideas as we bring fresh and original writing into the world. We will use actors and writers from the United Kingdom and North America to offer a trans-Atlantic feel to our work. Content will be added when ready rather than on a strict week-by-week or month-by-month basis. Please check out our website https://alternativestories.com/
Episodes
143 episodes since 2019
Winter Spring: An Audio Drama
Welcome to Season 8 of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realites Podcast. Our new season begins with Winter Spring, an audio drama by Dr Rachel Knightley. In Winter Spring by Dr Rachel Knightley you can hear...
September 12, 2024
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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57:12
Plans for season 2 of our Audio Drama The Best of Men with writer Amy Boucher
In this edition of the podcast we're chatting with writer, folklorist and historian Amy Boucher about plans for more from the world of her folk horror audio drama The Best of Men which was originally broadcast on this podcast. &nbs...
May 13, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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17:08
Margo's Story : An Audio Drama
Following the loss of her father, Margo is trying to come to terms with bereavement and the unkindness of her classmates at school when she begins to experience some strange encounters. In this moving drama by Gemma Johnson, perform...
May 09, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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38:23
Camlann: An audio drama: An interview with creators Ella Watts and Amber Devereux
Camlann is the new audio drama from Tin Can Audio written by Ella Watts. In this special edition we chat with Ella and sound designer / composer Amber Devereux of Tin Can Audio about the creation of the show. Chris Gregory a...
January 11, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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1:02:26
Ark : An Audio Drama
Flood survival operations are underway aboard the Ark and Captain Noah has delegated command to his sons and their partners. But as the voyage begins a spate of mysterious deaths prompt Parphia to turn detective and embark upon the world'...
December 14, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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33:54
"Twisted Branches": A conversation with author Dr Rachel Knightley
Our guest on this edition of Alternative Stories is writer, writing coach and teacher Dr Rachel Knightley. We chatted on zoom about Rachel’s short story cycle “Twisted Branches” To buy a copy of Twisted Bra...
December 07, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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1:13:17
Behind the Scenes of our Science Fiction Drama The Dex legacy
In this edition we look behind the scenes at the making of our science fiction drama The Dex Legacy This podcast originally went out as an episode of The Dex Legacy Podcast and was released before the current season started. You...
November 23, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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38:13
Launching season 2 of the Seren Poetry Podcast with Sarah Johnson of Seren
The second season of the Seren Poetry Podcast begins this week and in this preview edition we chat with Sarah Johnson from Seren who will be the interviewer in this series and hear poems from the featured poets. Thank you to S...
November 16, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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39:45
Whatever you do, just don't! Talking poetry with Matthew Stewart
Thank you for listening to this edition of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast in which we chat with poet Matthew Stewart about his new Happenstance collection “Whatever you do, just don’t” You can order a copy ...
November 09, 2023
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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50:03
A conversation with author Lyndsey Croal
In this edition we chat with author Lyndsey Croal about her novelette "Have You Decided on your Question?" her audio drama "Daughter of Fire and Water" and the kickstarter campaign for the forthcoming climate change edition of the "Shoreline of...
June 15, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 23
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38:13
Notes From Dad's Room : An Audio Drama
Performed by Carole Pluckrose and Ria Knowles https://www.spotlight.com/1418-7861-2841Produced in association with The Boathouse Barking CIC.
June 01, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 22
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1:02:33
Spell Sounds : Sea and Shore
Spell sounds is an audiofiction soundscape series in which we combine poetry and prose with sound effects to evoke places, spaces and landscapes In this edition you heard the voices of Tiffany Clare, Sally Walker Taylor, C...
May 25, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 21
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13:22
Frasier Armitage : New Yesterday
In this edition we speak to science fiction writer Frasier Armitage about his novel New Yesterday which was published earlier this year. Frasier is the author of our award winning audio drama Postcards from Another World and several piece...
May 18, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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54:07
Storying our Futures : Climate change and storytelling in East Africa
Storying our Futures is a new podcast series looking at the climate crisis in east Africa and the ways in which storytelling can help to spread information to the local population. Through the eyes of two Kenyan storytellers, Mara and John, we ...
May 11, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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41:42
The Best of Men : An Audio Drama : Part Two
Marc Hughes, the larger-than-life presenter of the supernatural investigation TV show Paranormal Takedown, is in Shropshire visiting his friend Jack who claims that the Devil is active in the county. Alongside co-host Emilie Daniels, Marc...
April 06, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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54:39
Spring Fever: A new novel by Thomas Legendre
Thank you for listening to this edition of The Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast featuring the new novel "Spring Fever" by Thomas Legendre Readings from Spring Fever were by Tiffany Clare with Thomas Legendre playing Cr...
March 30, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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39:57
The Best of Men : An Audio Drama : Part One
When Marc Hughes, the larger-than-life presenter of the TV show Paranormal Takedown, receives a series of increasingly desperate voice mail messages from his childhood friend Jack claiming that a great evil is loose in Shropshire, he is sceptic...
March 24, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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47:15
The UK Ghost Story Festival
Thank you for listening to the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast. Our guest in this edition is Alex Davis of the UK Ghost Story Festival You can find out more about the festival, book tickets and read more a...
February 02, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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46:05
Working Class Writers with guest editor Amber Hall
In this podcast we look at working class writers, their work and experience with guest editor Amber Hall. We look at the difficulties that working class writers overcome and the limitations and expectation placed upon them by the wider wo...
January 26, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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1:08:16
"Home" : A New Novel by Cailean Steed
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....
January 16, 2023
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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40:19
Postcards From Another World: An Audio Drama
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 ...
December 19, 2022
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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42:56
The Gathering : An Audio Drama
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 o...
October 31, 2022
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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40:14
The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival : A Poetry Anthology
The Sylvia Plath literary festival celebrates the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets. Taking place over the weekend of the 21st to 23rd of October in Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall in West Yorkshire, the...
October 11, 2022
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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27:11
National Poetry Day 2022 : A Seren Poetry Anthology
For National Poetry Day 2022 we are sharing an anthology of poems recorded for the Seren Poetry Podcast which is launched on 6th October. All of the poems in this selection broadly related to this year’s National Poetry Day theme of...
October 05, 2022
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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18:18
The Seren Poetry Podcast and The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival. A Poetry Special Edition
In this edition we speak to poets and poetry editors for Seren Books Rhian Edwards and Zoe Brigley and to poet and director of The Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, Sarah CorbettYou can listen to preview editions and subscribe to the Seren...
September 29, 2022
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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1:07:16