Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs

Coming so soon: Metra - The Cast Album! In the meantime, you're the first to hear the newly remixed and remastered songs, from the comfort of your podcast feed. We're sharing them as they're finished--here's batch 5! This batch, once again, features some extra bonus content—consider it the DVD commentary track (designed to appease the Sp*tify overlords…) Support the creation of...

Later this spring, MythMakers Media will release Metra - The Cast Album! In the meantime, you can be the first to hear the newly remixed and remastered songs, from the comfort of your podcast feed. We're sharing them as they're finished--here's batch 4! This batch features some extra bonus content—consider it the DVD commentary track (designed to appease the Sp*tify overlords…) Supp...

We are SO CLOSE to the next batch of beautifully remixed and remastered Metra cast album songs! In the meantime, let us tide you over with another delightful show. Forgive Me!  Season 3, Episode 1 - "(Another) Disaster at the Donut Festival" Father Ben left his congregation in Binghamton, New York, in the cover of night for the smaller, quieter pastures of St. Patrick’s. As our new, youn...

This week, we're introducing you to Greater Boston! This is an excerpt from Season 1, Episode 1; 4 seasons are out now anywhere you listen to podcasts. Find all episodes here! About the Show: Greater Boston is a bi-monthly full-cast audio drama that blends the real and the unreal, the historical and the fantastical. It all begins with the death of Leon Stamatis, a man for whom the least hint...

This week, we're excited to introduce you to Windfall, by Rogue Dialogue! This is Season 1, Episode 1, "Bottom Feeder" -- Find all episodes here! About the Show: Ever since the castle first appeared in the sky above the city of Windfall, its residents have been building upward. Now the city consists of towers where the wealthiest residents live at the top while the poor eke out a li...

Songs: "The Myth of Erysicthon Part 3" "Ceres' Curse" "Famine" Your mission (especially if you live in New York in the U.S.!) -- On April 29 and 30, 2026 -- Call the NYS Assembly and Senate and urge them not to gut the state's landmark climate law! If you're not in New York, call anyway! Let them know the eyes of the world are on the state. Assembly Spe...

Emily & Ned Hartford sit down to talk about the origins of Metra, adapting the show from a stage musical to an audio drama, and how they approached shaping a story about climate liberation while living in our dumpster fire of a time. (We'll be back soon with more re-mastered songs from the upcoming cast album!) Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.c...

This is a big favorite of ours, from our friends at Gideon Media! Find all episodes of  Give Me Away,  and more info here.  They call the spaceship that crashed in the Nevada desert “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners uploaded into its horrific mainframe. The only way to free them... is to transfer them into the bodies of humans will...

Later this spring, MythMakers Media will release Metra - The Cast Album! Support the creation of the album, and get access to upcoming bonus materials, at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical  In the meantime, you can be the first to hear the newly remixed and remastered songs, from the comfort of your podcast feed. We're sharing them as they're finished--here's batch 2! Songs: “Welcome MythMa...

Big news, Metra compatriots!  We are thrilled to share that, later this spring, MythMakers Media will release Metra - The Cast Album! Support the creation of the album, and get access to upcoming bonus materials, at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical  In the meantime, you can be the first to hear the newly remixed and remastered songs, from the comfort of your podcast feed. We're sharing them as they&...

Hey, Metra listeners! We're so pleased to bring you this conversation that Metra co-creators Ned and Emily recently had with Bill Cleveland on the Art is Change  podcast. We talk about the 7-year journey to create the show, our approach to tackling climate catastrophe as a subject matter, the power of music, and much more. Bill is a stellar interviewer, and he also weaves the show through wit...

Tom hears from an old friend and proposes a way forward. Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something In particular, we recommend the book, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility , edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua   Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical     Follow the show: https://pod.link/184...

Listeners, if you're enjoying Metra's take on storytelling-meets-collective action: have we got a show for you. We're thrilled to recommend a  non-fiction podcast this week: one that weaves revolutionary stories from real-world justice movements-- What do a textile worker in Delhi, a student in a Palestinian refugee camp, and a farmworker in 1960s California have in common? In the m...

The finale.  Are we tied to the tracks of this catastrophe?  Songs: “Fearful” reprise “Gotta Be Brave” “With the Swing of an Axe” “Work for the Night is Coming” “Epilogue” Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical Written by Emily and Ned Hartford Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford Dialogue Directed by Emi...

Very excited to introduce this show to Metra listeners -- All Around Science!  All Around Science is weekly podcast by two huge science fans discussing what’s new and interesting in science. Science is our window into incredible worlds, from impossibly small atoms to impossibly distant stars. We want to use it to discover as much as possible, and share it with you every week. This is episode 220,...

The penultimate episode; the culmination of the Process. Will Tyler make the right choice? Songs: “Cori Comes Home” reprise “Take a Bite” “Fearful”  Content note: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault. Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical Written by Emily and Ned Hartford Music and Lyri...

Tom Molpe attempts to answer a big question. ... Books for Earline (and anyone else who may find them useful): Climate Crisis - Overall The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann Falter by Bill McKibben The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How To Fight It by Genevieve Guenther Climate Crisis and Extractive Capitalism Wealth Supremacy: How the...

The story of Cori. Songs:  "Ceres' Curse reprise" "Cori in the Limo" "Bechtel Man" "Cori Rides a Train" "Cori Starts to Dream" "Cori Underwater" "Cori Sheds Her Skin" "Cori Comes Home" Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathem...

Dear Listeners: We believe the time has come to clear the air on a matter of some…complexity.  Are you the sort of listener who keeps an ear out for patterns? Repetition? Perhaps you’ve noticed a unique name popping up in numerous places.  Perhaps you’re one of the Metra listeners who heard Episode 4 and began to have questions.  You’re not alone. Today we address such a listener question — namely...

Tyler is drawn further into the Process. Sam shares her story of transformation. Aglaphonos takes on a chilling new persona. Songs: “The Myth of Erysicthon Part 3” “Ceres’ Curse” “Famine” Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical Written by Emily and Ned Hartford Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford Dialogue...

Check out this teaser for another audio drama we love -- Wanderer's Journal, by Timothy Rafael and Lumi Oakes. Wanderer’s Journal is a fantasy fiction podcast about Marigold and Pluto, and their unlikely friendship formed through a magical journal that links them. Each of them finds a journal, learns that their voice is recorded into it, and can be both read and played back to the other. Unbe...

The day arrives. Cori, Sam, Aglaphonos, and Tom are about to intercept their subject and throw him into the Process. Will it win him over? Can the Bubble people change? Songs:  “Welcome Mythmakers” “The Myth of Erysicthon Part 1” “Metra’s Mother” “The Myth of Erysicthon Part 2” Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something Support Metra at ko-fi.com/...

To launch their mission against the Bubbles, the team needs someone on the inside. Someone with access to the Bubble security systems. Luckily their new friend, Diane, has gear that their mark is desperate to get his hands on. Things are about to get very real. Is our team ready? Written by Emily and Ned Hartford Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford Dialogue Directed by Emily Hartford Produced by Myth...

We're pleased to share another audio drama we love, which features the creators of METRA! In this audio dramedy, the world is shaken by the transformations of women into dragons who consume and immolate men. This is Season 1, Episode 1: Ray. Find the show: https://pod.link/1511981177 Season 1: A tourist from afar tries to understand what, when any woman could literally eat you for lunch, is a...

The revolutionaries learn that their Process has triggered some devastating fallout. Sam proposes a new direction, and Aggie bristles at a judgmental counterpart. Cori attempts a dangerous quest for some of the mission’s missing pieces. The team gain new allies. Songs: “A Nymphian Interlude” Written by Emily and Ned Hartford Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford Dialogue Directed by Emily Hartford Prod...