♥and we’re back by popular demand! it’s time to spread your podcast pallet!♥
With the staggering success of Welcome to Night Vale, it would seem that podcasts are truly becoming all the rage lately. Finally something that combines the thrills of television with the soothing nature of music.
All text, all voice, all in your imagination for a good story.
But perhaps you are too impatient to always wait the first and the fifteenth for another tune in to the whereabouts of this strange desert community or too broke to attend one of many live shows.
Looking for something fresh to please that sudden thirst for audio storytelling? Look no further as PodCake has six more podcasts you’ll certainly love.
“Our Fair City is a campy, post-apocalyptic audio drama.”
Who doesn’t love camping? Who doesn’t love campy?
This is the dream podcast for theater nerds like myself. (Well, I’m an ex-theater nerd but I can still relate). Our Fair City is the first show I’ve listened to that really embodies that feel of watching a play.
The consistent narration, the set of short act after short act flowing into one another seamlessly and a setting and cast of characters that draw you into the…kind charitable nature of HartLife so perfectly.
This is the first I’ve heard of a dark dystopian scenario in a radio drama yet it doesn’t risk a bit of comedy and mystery to keep you tuned in.
“Contemporary audio drama never sounded so good! Feast your ears on a good story on the weekly podcast, Radio Drama Revival. Featuring top-quality productions from around the glove by the best amateurs and professional producers on the glove.”
You wanna know what’s funny? This podcast is about podcasts and this blog is about podcasts and I’m talking about a podcast that talks about podcasts. You wanna know what else is funny?
The kind, talented fella who works on Our Fair City recommended this show to me. I’m surprised a paradox hasn’t developed from this sentence alone, but we’ll get those later (around number five to be precise).
But enough blabbering, Radio Drama Revival is what you would expect: a celebration of radio drama and reminding us of how damn good they are. You get a pleasant narration and music opening up to a number of new shows by the likes of talent all over the globe.
If you’re looking for variety or a new story to get your grimy ears on, look no further than Radio Drama Revival.
“Life’s not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359.”
Now most of you already know about how I feel about this show. I love it to all of its snarky, sparkly, star ridden pieces. Who doesn’t love a bit of comedy mixed with the existential terror of space and the hidden conflicts of mysterious alien life and shady organizations?
Wolf 359 hits the narrative fiction nail on the head with such accurate precision it seems effortless and tapping the subscribe button should be just as easy for you lucky listeners.
“EOS 10 is an original, sci-fi radio play that follows two mal-adjusted doctors and their staff on the Alliance space, station, EOS 10.”
Space! I love space! You know what I also like? Strange batches of misfits in space doing space related things like getting rid of boners and eating peas. This show is all about atmosphere right off the bat…also sass but let’s talk about other sounds right now.
Since I’m a big sound editing nerd, I can’t help but mention how calm and quiet the whole show is, no matter how obnoxious or dire the scenarios might become. It really immerses you into the setting and I…dig it. I dig it a lot.
This show will give you the comedy, drama, and cute bits of interpersonal quarrel we all want in our dysfunctional cast. I’m gonna cut this short before I start rambling. I might just be be a little bit too impressed to keep my cool.
“The hapless duo of Hadron scientist Dr. Francis ‘Oppenheimer’ Valdini and his somewhat reluctant partner, the kidnapped IT guy Mike Wilkinson, are stranded outside of space time in the Hadron Bunker.”
This is the most recent podcast to my playlist and it’s the kind of thing that reminds me why I even got into this radio drama…stuff. Self referencing comedy, a charming cast, and a number of wacky scenarios. There’s a certain magic to this series that’s hard to put into words.
It’s not one for sanity or even remotely making sense half the time and that is a great deal of what makes it so damn entertaining. Entertaining, yeah, that’s the word I’m getting at.
Alongside ILLUSIONOID, it’s easily one of the funniest things I’ve come across in awhile and fans of the improv comedy are sure to enjoy this. It’s got that same zest of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (that’s a book if you didn’t know), just a little less British.
“A show about the internet.”
This seems to be a trend now, huh? All the other shows fall into the radio drama formula and then there’s that one thats a bit of an outlier. Last time it was a pod fic and this time it’s a non fiction, review and interview show about technology.
Please don’t look away, this show just might save your life from trudging into unfortunate apps and websites filling the internet. It’ll make your cherish that privacy and power of the computer of phone you might be reading this on a bit more.
Educational is the best word I can use to describe this show. It make me think and that’s something we could all use more of.
