Indie AF

"HELP! I don’t know how to make audio drama! I have a script - what do I do next..." Hey! Worry ye not you wonderful creatives! I gotchoo. ***** IAF is here to help.***** Helloooo! Sarah Golding here. How do?! I was approached as an audio drama podcast consultant to help the wonderful NEIL MCLARTY fathom what to do next to create an audio drama from a nearly complete script he had been w...

Hello audio creatives! Welcome to another INDIE AF - Celebrating indie audio fiction creatives making the very best audio stories for your ears…. movies for the mind, theatre for the third eye, cinema for the cinemagination….you can quote me on all of those (and I only made up the latter 2) …but you knew that... Let’s lean in to explore the success of spinoffs ! Yes! You need not finish a season a...

Hellooo you beautiful audio fiction creatives you! Welcome to Indie AF - Thheee chat podcast for all things audio fiction creation = this show aims to help you level up your own practice and make more groovy audio fiction! Here we have an interview with the super cool Finnur Nielsen who had an internship with the wonderful team at FOOL AND SCHOLAR! Yes! The lucky sausage! HERUGE thanks to my patre...

Hellooo you wonderful audio lovers N makers n shakers of the audibly fantastical in these challenging and uncertain times - but yay for the craft of audio fiction creation and bubbles of grooviness where Audio Fiction Creative Folks can connect and enjoy the talents herein at such joyous events as a podcast festival! I went to London Podcast Fest a few weekends ago, and caught up with a few amazin...

This new JOYOUS episode of INDIE AF looks at what its like to be a neurospicy creative with guests ANDI WHITE CARL G BROOKS  JEN DEHAAN There is so much explored in this episode from how to utilise neurospicy fuelled creative skills and our beautiful unique brains to help make the very best audio fiction. Carl makes up a new word - rackedly - Andi becomes our dictionary of terms corner, and Jen sh...

TOPIC - SCORYTELLLING Hello you wonderful creative folks - today we explore SCORE-YTELLING - yes, telling story with music and score - and with our super groovy expert guests >>>> CAT BLACKARD  AND  JESSICA MUDD They have a good number of superb shows you can find and explore, linked below - and some of which is showcased through clips on this 'ere indie af interview show with me,...

The wonderful  *****FAITH MCQUINN  AND  *****FLLOYD KENNEDY Join me to chat all things getting funded - or not - for your amazing audio drama creation. Some strive, surpass themselves and succeed and others sadly sink - for a sec - and strive again! HEREIN LIE SOME UNMISSABLE CROWDFUNDING TALES!  I truly love allll of my guests on this show and these two AND ALLL OTHERS deserve your attention too,...

Hello audio creatives - 'ow do? I (excitedly) caught up with three very busy and brilliant AWARD WINNING PRO VOICE ACTORS about not being a newbie anymore -and we explore the good the bad and the noise reduction of being a feisty working VA.  Thank you SO MUCH to my Wonderful guests: Karim Kronfli Marta Da Silva Margaret Ashley Herein we find out how ridiculous a warm up sounds in an interview...

Hello INDIE AF creatives! Hope your creative week is productive and as brilliant as you!  I had a joyous eve talking to the wonderful folks from FOOL AND SCHOLAR - TRAVIS VENGROF AND KAITLIN STATZ -  and also there is a super special dreamy guest thought mind link to the wonderful PIP THORNE of THE AMELIA PROJECT on his thoughts on their Patreon - honestly - INVALUABLE ADVICE HEREIN.  We chat all...

Helloo < THUNDER > and welcome < sCREAMMMMM > to this super groovy chat < howllll > to the wonderful MARK NIXON of Shadows at the door, Earworm, Tides of Men and more! < Cheering > THE STORM AT at the beginning was a true real life storm in Buckinghamshire uk that went over my house a few weeks ago - might put it on ⁠Freesound⁠ soon, where all the other SFX came from unless...

PRIDE SPECIAL 2026 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 HAPPY PRIDE EVERYONE!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 It was truly joyous to join a chat with the wonderful Jessica Mary Best of Procyon podcasts and Audacious Machine Creative and more - and Andi White of The Walker Mysteries and the upcoming Matters Arising and more - to celebrate pride and LGBTQ+ shows and peoples… We talk all things queer shows and creating experience that this super i...

WOOHOO we hear the joyous auditions from ANA, JOHN, STEVE in our AUDITIONING AUDIO FICTION CREATIVES DEEP DIVE PART 2 !  Sarah Golding here -hEllO!  In this episode  -we hear the auditions of our three brave and brilliant VA’S with feedback led by the superbly talented VA and Voice Coach TANYA RICH ( Tan as in Tarn not Tan as in suntan ) ANNDDD our volunteers as tribute to the auditioning AF cause...

GET AUDITIONING AUDIO FICTION CREATIVES! Sarah Golding here -hEllO!  Oh, what a joyous talented bunch we have on today's INDIE AF for our DEEP DIVE INTO AUDITIONING FOR indie AF Yes!  Over the next 2 episodes - yes two - we share lots of wonderful insights into VA life, tech setups and auditioning for audio fiction shows - led by the superbly talented VA and Voice Coach TANYA RICH ( Tan as in...

Helloooowah! Rachel Feeny-Williams of ⁠ THEATRICAL SHENANIGANS ⁠ is a goddess of Creative Opportunity for you, yes you, so, get creative and...get in touch with Rachel!  I truly love folks who work very hard to provide a forum for others creative works, nurture voice actors and also give their own works some of the spotlight. THEATRICAL SHENANIGANS is a groovy podcast forged and flamed and fanned...

Hellooooo grooviest of audio creatives! Hope your productions are coming along nicely?! Do ping me to let me know what you're up to and I can mention your show on future eps! I have been a vv lucky creative and spoke to the wonderful Óðinn ( 2 nn's) Örn Hilmarsson of Ramon Fear's Terror Tapes, Crowley Time LIVE! and more about all things making audio drama -LIVE!  Odinn is a wonderful...

WAHHEYYY Hallo! Ow do?! WELCOME TO INDIE AF - An AF marketing chat special! Sarah Golding here - hello! I am Just coming out of a true busy creator period of producing directing and voice acting annddd interviews for this ere show.  Am Delighted today to introduce the truly wonderful Joe Swenson of BROKEN ARTS ENTERTAINMENT who put out around 125 episodes a year!!! WOOOOOOWWW That sounds insane We...

FRED GREENHALGH IS A SUPER CREATIVE SOUL ON THIS AUDIO LANDSCAPE - you may recognise his name from credits on shows such as: ELF QUEST LOCKE AND KEY BATMAN UNDERTOW DARK TOME OF FAE AND FIENDS THE CLEANSED STAR TREK -WRATH OF KHAN YES! HE'S THAT GROOVYCOOL!  We talked all things (Pls bow) THOSE INTREPID PIONEERS OF AUDIO DRAMA BEFRE US- Dirlk, Mariele…. HOW FAN SITES CAN CHAMPION AUDIO ADAPTAT...

Mornin/Afternoon/Evenin al! Here is an INFORMATIVE interview from last year that my Quirky Voices patreons saw but for reasons has not been released to you ..until TODAY! AUPHONC - Is a super playground to utilise to get your audio sounding groovier - Christoph shows what it does and how it does it in this podcast episode on this useful AI tool. Yes. Useful. I do hope you have a browse and see if...

Goooodddd day to you story makers! Happy creating! Here is the first of this feisty season 4 of INDIE AF - 20 eps of GROOVY chat with amazing folks who make #audiodrama #audiofiction professionally or semi pro or for a hobby - all experiences and advice welcome here! Please Welcome by clapping loudly wherever you are for these first ep guests of the season - the wonderful CHRIS GREGORY and EMILY I...

Heleaauuuu audio drama creatives and the curious!🌞 Here is a groovy trailer pinging your ears about this brand new season of INDIE AF - THEEEE CHAT PODCAST TO LISTEN TO AND GUEST ON to get you levelled up in AUDIO FICTION climes. This season has hot hot guests of audio loving joy INCLUDING THE WONDERFUL Pete Gold, Tanya Rich, Jonathan Pezza, Emily Inkpen, Chris Gregory, Broken Arts Ent, B7, Odin,...

Helleauuuu creatives of audio joy! Sarah Golding here with a new INDIE AF ep with stellar guests working BRILLIANTLY HARD making indie audio fiction! I have had a joyous chat to these wonderful guests on how they have set up and used DISCORD for useful elements of their creative worlds - whether for an individual show or a vast and growing network for the greater creative good, for fans cast or cr...

Hello! Well Here we are - 10 more eps of INDIE AF about to gently slide your way starting with this joyous chat to the truly wonderful RUSS MORE on the astoundingly brilliant FABLE AND FOLLY NETWORK - HOUSING OVER 120 AUDIO DRAMA SHOWS! WWOW! One way of working to make any kind of splash or pennies is to join a network like this one for audio fiction - there are a good few of grooviness now - Faus...

WELCOME TO THE SECOND PART OF THIS SERIES OF INDIE AF! Delighted to bring you a Christmas Eve of hygge - some wonderful folks from the indie AF community gathered to discuss 2025 and making audio drama in general.  We talk all things acting advice, accents, writing, merch, launching a pod and top tips….and rather a lot on actual play!  Enjoy the talents of this team and hear more of the interview...

Hello - here is the first of a few chats on WHICH PODHOST - this ep focuses on on  RED CIRCLE BUZZSPROUT AUDIO BOOM SPOTIFY FOR PODCASTERS LIBSYN MEGAPHONE And talks about Magic Mastering AI features (transcription etc)  Dynamic content insertion Prices and boons Stats, Downloads and how you use them Different interfaces and analytics Fanmail Advertisements and monetisation Audio fiction growth Sh...

Hello audio creatives! I am so enjoying my brilliant guest inputs from this season so far! Are you enjoying? Then do ping INDIE AF a review please - that would be marvellous!  Fanks muchly! T oday’s truly wonderful guests are: MAC ROGERS JORDANA WILLAMS SEAN WILLIAMS We have a joyous chat about so many things relevant to making GIVE ME AWAY - SEASON 3 - and so much more! All of them are astounding...