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@keepingthezoopodcast
Welcome to the official tumblr account of Keeping the Zoo, the podcast sitcom all about life, work and recapturing escaped animals.
You can start listening here, or by searching Keeping the Zoo on your podcast app of choice. We're the one with the otter!
You can also find us on our website, BlueSky, and Instagram.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
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Listeners are amazing
Last week, we had a day when all of our listeners were in Hong Kong.
Audiodramas don't often talk about their stats other than milestone numbers but days like that are just so mad. For context, the show isn't made in Hong Kong or set there and none of our (very international) cast are from there.
But somehow we connected with a whole bunch of people (or maybe one person with too many devices who LOVES our show) there.
We are a small audiodrama. We don't have a marketing budget or a team of people advertising us, so when fun days like that happen it's because of all our listeners telling friends, sharing online and just being effing amazing!
Thanks listeners, for making us famous in Hong Kong for a day, and just generally.
How do you prefer to support limited series audio dramas?
Patreon or similar
Crowdfunding, eg. Kickstarter
One off payments, like Kofi
Something else (stick it in the comment if there's something we forgot)
Asking for a friend...
Awards show, otters!
We had such a great time at the Golden Lobes the other night. Well done to all the winners, commiserations with all the non-winners (but really, we make or listen to audio shows so we're all winners).
Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the listener category. And if you didn't, a) it's fine, we love all our fans, and b) make it up to us with an animal drawing?
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Awards show, otters!
We had such a great time at the Golden Lobes the other night. Well done to all the winners, commiserations with all the non-winners (but really, we make or listen to audio shows so we're all winners).
Thanks to everyone who voted for us in the listener category. And if you didn't, a) it's fine, we love all our fans, and b) make it up to us with an animal drawing?
What Happens When Zookeepers Have Too Much Time On Their Hands
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For my zookeeper friends
@keepingthezoopodcast
Sometimes Jon writes a scene for one of our characters and asks "is this too silly?", then the zoo keepers of the world as one say "not nearly silly enough".
Never change zoo keepers.
We got nominated for Golden Lobes!
The Golden Lobes is one of the UK's best independent podcast awards and... we've been nominated for three of them!
The specific awards we're up for are:
🏆 Behind the Scenes Hero
🏆 Best International Show
🏆 Best Scripted Show
We're, as you'd imagine, beyond excited!
Big shoutout to all the other nominees in all the categories. You can find the full list here.
A special mention to Crowley Time, with Me Tom Crowley. It's a super fun sketch show mostly made by one guy (who's also in Victoriocity, Wooden Overcoats and the Beef and Dairy Network Podcast, all of which are amazing shows), the titular Tom Crowley. He gave us lots of advice when we first started out, proof that audiodrama is full of nice people.
Anyway, cross your fingers for us in May!
Irish Audio Dramas for Lá Fhéile Pádraig
Dia dhaoibh agus Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! It’s St.Patrick’s Day and I wanted to share some Irish media with you that I have fallen in love with recently! So here are some audio dramas that I wanted to shout out some shows that I’ve started listening to, or have been recommended!
This House Will Devour You
“Kilphaun Hall sits high on a ridge overlooking the Blackwater river in County Waterford. Abandoned and silent for so long, it echoes now to the cheerful sounds of renovation and preparations for the coming social season of winter 1925. But Kilphaun Hall has its secrets and some places are best left to rot, forgotten.”
(For more by them) https://www.citeogpodcasts.com/
Citeog Podcasts is a small Irish-based indie producer of quality original audio drama. Other shows of their include: Witchpunk (2026) and Ten Appocalypses (2025).
The Last Dance
Rusty Quill is an industry leading independent production company and podcast network.
“The Great South was alone. A small rock formed atop the bones of dead gods and leviathans, drifting within an endless ocean. People left to their own petty wars and dogmas. But now, from that same ocean, comes a wave of death in the form of savage invaders, striking without cause against the Eightfold House of Holy Ichors and its 8 Bleeding Monks. In the wake of their eradication, a battlefield scavenger by the name of Jericho Raeke goes picking through the remnants and discovers something that puts him, and his unlikely allies, at the centre of the conflict.”
Last Dance is produced in Belfast and has a full cast of Northern Irish voices, with guest stars including David Morrissey (The Walking Dead) and James Mackenzie (CBBC’s Raven).
Petrified
A horror fiction podcast from a darker Ireland.…
“Petrified is a horror audio drama anthology from a darker Ireland. Petrified tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates.”
It is written and directed by Peter Dunne. Produced, edited and sound design by Liam Geraghty.
A great list of audiodramas with Irish connections to celebrate the day.
Remember St Patrick kicked the snakes out of Ireland, so if you're listening to Keeping the Zoo today, you have to listen past episode 5, because that's the one with the snake in it.
Congrats to our writer and SD Jon
Our Writer and Sound Designer Jon just won an award for Best Direction of an Indie Short Film (together with co-director Kat Carson) for their silent horror short film I Give to Thee.
Join us in giving them both some props.
Jon has asked we add that his first love is and will always be Audio Drama.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Season 1 - episode 6
In this week's catchup, it's the Season 1 Finale (uness you count the Christmas special) and everyone is reeling from the Zoo Director's big announcement. We've got special guest stars, secrets and the promise of a soggy raccoon calendar.*
We got to work with the gorgeously-voiced Ente Breed for this episode.
The featured animal for the episode is the African Hunting Dog, which is the favourite animal of Ben, who plays the Zoo Director. He schooled us all so much on them when we were recording, so go ahead...ask us anything?
You can listen to the episode, and the whole series, on the widget above, as well as on Spotify, all podcast apps, and our website. If you do listen, leave a review and tell us what you like about the show.
Season 1 - episode 5
Something's up at the zoo; Alan is being punctual, helpful, and has even got his paperwork done on time. It couldn't have happened at a better time, though, as an animal has escaped and it's going to take everyone working together to recatch it.
Next up on our season 1 catchup, is episode 5.
Some behind the scenes on this one, we did some live shows to premiere the series for a home audience, including live foley from the incredibly talented Becky Blomgren. She and our sound designer Jon spent about 3 weeks trying to find something which sounds just like those big plastic strips that they have on some zoo enclosures (and also maybe butcher's shops?) because almost nothing sounds like them on mic.
We hope you're enjoying the catchup. We might have some big news coming up soon, so please do susbscribe to Keeping the Zoo on your podcast app, and follow us here so we can share it with as many of our fans as possible.
We need your vote
Keeping the Zoo is up for the Golden Lobes Listener's Lobe award.
To win, we need your vote: https://podlifeawards.com/vote/the-listeners-lobe-tgl20262
Please give us your support and tell a friend.
Season 1 - episode 4
Edna the Echidna is due to give birth today and everyone at the zoo is very excited about the new arrivals. Everyone that is, except Alan, who's worried about an email they were all sent this morning.
Next up on our catchup for season 1 is episode 4, which made our sound designer cry (but in a good way, like watching the Fox and the Hound, not like watching the news).
If you're enjoying the catchup (or enjoyed the show the first time around), why not share the series with some friends/lovers/friendly pet lovers. Word of mouth is such a nice (and effective) way to support independent audio drama.
What's your perfect audio drama day out?
You can only visit attractions (shops, museums, zoos, cafes, etc.) from audio dramas - how do you spend your day?
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Season 1 - episode 3
There's a thief operating in the zoo, and Evelyn and Michelle are on the case! Meanwhile, Alan has his own mystery to solve: what's in the tea hut?
We're continuing our catchup of Season 1. If you're listening for the first time, get in touch and tell us what you think!
A fun behind the scenes on this one: we did more takes than you could possibly imagine with Denis, who plays Alan, at the Tea Hut. They were all gold (your man's a pro), but we were just having so much fun.
Season 1 - episode 2
A first day at work, a very confused Michelle, an entirely absent Alan, and an Evelyn who's sick of this nonsense. Oh yeah, and hundreds of birds. What's not to like in episode 2!
Inside fact, this includes our sound designer's favourite soundscape to create (actually, they said joint favourite with "making the noise of a reindeer drinking soup" in the Christmas episode). We won't spoil what it is but let's just say they recorded a lot of individual birds.
Listen to episode 2 of our season 1 catchup now!
