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“PERFECT RETREAT, Episode 6 – Perfect Gift” is written and produced by Fiona Thraille Sarah Golding was the Dialogue Editor for this episode. Please click here for the transcript (please note, the transcript is the script, which is usually almost exactly identical to the performances) and further credits. Trigger Warning: A potentially supernatural encounter; fire CAST In order of appearance Sam -...

“PERFECT RETREAT” is written and produced by Fiona Thraille This is an omnibus version of the series previously published. Please click here for the transcript (please note, the transcript is the script, which is usually almost exactly identical to the performances) and further credits. Trigger Warning: Grief, references to the pandemic, threats & a little violence; character has a panic attac...

Massive apologies for the delay in getting out the final episode of Perfect Retreat. Life events intervened, but Episode 6 is now in post-production.   This is a recording from the Audio Drama Hub Podfest, held in High Wycombe in November 2022. In this, there was a slot for new podcasts – and we were lucking enough to gather together many of our international cast to perform some live scenes and s...

“PERFECT RETREAT, Episode 5 – Create or Die” is written and produced by Fiona Thraille Please click here for the transcript (please note, the transcript is the script, which is usually almost exactly identical to the performances) and further credits. Trigger Warning: A potentially supernatural encounter CAST In order of appearance Sam - Erika Sanderson The Operator - David Ault Natalia - Kirsty W...

“ PERFECT RETREAT, Episode 4 – Sunk” is written and produced by Fiona Thraille Please click here for the transcript  (please note, the transcript is the script, which is usually almost exactly identical to the performances. In this episode, some scenes may feature a few extra ad libs!)  and further credits.   Trigger Warning: Threats & a little violence; character has a panic attack; potential...

“ PERFECT RETREAT, Episode 3 – Breaking the Rules” is written and produced by Fiona Thraille Please click here for the transcript (please note, the transcript is the script, which is usually almost exactly identical to the performances. In this episode, some scenes may feature a few extra ad libs!) and further credits. CAST  In order of appearance:   Mary-Leanna Greenshields - Wendy Lap Lavender B...

“ PERFECT RETREAT, Episode 2 – Not There” is written and produced by Fiona Thraille Please click here for the transcript and further credits. TRIGGER WARNING: A panic attack CAST  In order of appearance Shel - Nathan Blades Sam - Erika Sanderson  Andy - Robert Cudmore  The Operator - David Ault Zinnia - Sarah Golding   MUSIC  Music in the performance hall is Can’t Stop Us by Mugzy (used with the a...

“ PERFECT RETREAT, Episode 1 – Not Here” is written and produced by Fiona Thraille Pleas click here for the transcript and further credits. TRIGGER WARNING: Brief mentions of death/grief, depictions of social anxiety and a panic attack CAST  In order of appearance Voiceover - Angela Ness  The Operator - David Ault Sam - Erika Sanderson Sally, the journalist - Wendy Lap Lavender Bee - Fiona Thraill...

Trailer for Perfect Retreat    Set in the summer of 2021, Perfect Retreat is about Sam, still grieving from the loss of a close relative, winning a competition to spend two weeks on an artists' retreat in a remote island in the North Atlantic. But what does the plaque above the door:  "Creativity is Life" mean for those who can no longer  create?     “Perfect Retreat” is a six part...

CUSTOMS How To Play the Elevator Game: 1. Enter the elevator alone.  2. Proceed to the fourth floor. 3. Descend to the second floor. 4. Proceed to the sixth floor. 5. Return to the second floor. 6. Ascend to the tenth floor. 7. Return to the fifth floor. A young woman may enter the elevator here. Do not look at her or talk to her, whatever she does. 8. Press the button for the first floor.  – If t...

On discovering a Ouija board engraved into a family heirloom, Flick is determined to claim her lost inheritance, no matter the cost.  The 11th Hour audio challenge is an annual celebration of audio drama. People from different audio drama podcast groups come together to collaborate on short plays, produced in the month of October, in time for Halloween. Dashing Onions Audio were part of the team o...

Welcome to Run South. You are sitting next to a river in a wooded field. There is a road to the North, heading towards a forest, and a small, rocky path to the East which follows the river towards a gorge. >_ A computer game developer offers to test her colleagues' retro gaming booth adventure. But as reality and game blur, she discovers glitches in both. “ RUN SOUTH” is written and produc...

DER TICKENTOCKER written and produced by Fiona Thraille script edited by CJ Brittain TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of death and mortality.  Please scroll down for the script . As explained in the episode, this is a short audio drama first released by Cooperantem Audio in 2013, now re-released here for Halloween. We hope you enjoy it! CAST The Film Narrator - Damian Haywood Christina - Marleigh Norton...

THE LISTENING JAR  written and produced by Fiona Thraille Please scroll down for the transcript . CAST Geoff - Boyd Barrett Margot - Erin King Shopkeeper - Lec Zorn Barbara - Sarah Golding Ms B - Maria Micklasavage Driver – J Thraille Workers - Erin King, Maria Micklasavage, Whitney Johnson & Maya Peace MUSIC  (THEME) Isla De Java by Zaire (CLOSING THEME) Ensayo De Lo Por Venir by Zaire  Many...

WHEN WE WERE TWO – EPISODE 3 “GONE”   written and produced by Fiona Thraille The third and final part of When We Were Two.  Please scroll down for the transcript. TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of miscarriage, grief. CAST Mindy Rast-Keenan as Sue Tanja Milojevic as Jen Fiona Thraille as Nain RJ Bayley as Davey THEME MUSIC You Can't Fail by Monplaisir Also by Monplaisir: que a The Break The bird an...

WHEN WE WERE TWO – EPISODE 2 “FORWARD”   written and produced by Fiona Thraille Please scroll down for the transcript. TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of miscarriage, grief. CAST Mindy Rast-Keenan as Sue Tanja Milojevic as Jen Fiona Thraille as Nain RJ Bayley as Davey Michael Hudson as Robert THEME MUSIC You Can't Fail by Monplaisir Also by Monplaisir: que a Unraveling the Chords Knife Jump__Oh_hi_...

WHEN WE WERE TWO – EPISODE 1 “BACK”   written and produced by Fiona Thraille Please scroll down for the transcript. TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of miscarriage, grief. 10th Jan 2020 Please note this episode is newly uploaded as a stereo file, after an error the first time in uploading a mono file! CAST Mindy Rast-Keenan as Sue Fiona Thraille as Nain RJ Bayley as Davey Tanja Milojevic as Jen MUSIC (TH...

This is a trailer for the upcoming three part mini-series, When We Were Two. Sue, recently separated and caring for an elderly relative, is thrilled when her son and family come back into her life. But her new flat is too small, and much worse - the elderly Nain senses something unnatural happening: things have gone terribly wrong. Sue will have to make life and death choices on behalf of every on...