It's my birthday weekend, and you probably want to know what you should get me, right? Listening to one or more of the stories presented below would be a great start. But I'd love to see you become a supporter of The End, if that's something you can do.
Oh, and I've started listing some special notes about some of the shows listed. Look for the bold text below and see if that adds some additional context for you. I'd love to hear what you think.
- Evo, the birthday boy
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Two lowly tech developers acquire a laptop full of contraband data, witness a murder, and then narrowly escape being assassinated. Suddenly, they find themselves sucked into a world of state-funded disinformation campaigns, bot farms, all-knowing Big Data organisations, and shadowy terror groups.
Inspired by the chaotic way global politics is currently unfolding, Max & Ivan: Fugitives is an on-the-run comedy thriller set across international borders. Written and performed by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez it stars Gemma Whelan, Alice Lowe, Adam Buxton, Kyle Kinane and Stephen Mangan. The cast also includes Celeste Dring, Dan Tetsell, Elina Alminas, Ernest Gromov, Freya Parker, Jak Malone, Jason Forbes, Justin Edwards, Katia Kvinge, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Sammy Broly and Steve Furst.
Sound design is by Rich Evans and photography by Idil Sukan. The series is produced by Ben Walker for Storyglass.
"Hi, my name is Conor. Other than my father being a bit of an eccentric lunatic, my life was pretty normal until I got attacked in my living room and whisked away to Tir na Nog, the mystical land of the ancient Celts, where it turns out Dad is the usurped heir to the throne and everybody wants me dead because of some prophecy. Don't you just hate when that happens?"
Shadowmagic is a rip-roaring fun fantasy adventure novel by John Lenahan very loosely based on Irish mythology where every chapter ends on the edge of a cliff (or at least a high curb.) Join Conor as he grapples with typical teenage problems like, how to deal with a father's high expectations, how to survive in the world on your own, and how to woo a beautiful girl - that wants you dead. Shadowmagic is a podcast novel for young adults from 12 to 112.
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Completed or finale'd shows we've recently added to our audio fiction directory.
When human bones are discovered in a Mississippi river bed, a loner with peculiar gifts returns to her small town to probe the origins of her mother’s long-ago disappearance and confront the ghosts of her family, both living and dead.
After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke, Edith Wilson told no one. For almost a year after the end of World War I, Edith Wilson acted as the de facto unelected President. And all along the way, enemies both internal and external, inched closer to finding out her secret.