The Vesta Clinic

Here. We. Go.

Our Season 2 Trailer for The Harbingers.

Magic is real. It's real and it's coming back.

And our show is returning...

'You are running on fumes and the dust of rot. On an echo of empty promise and abandonment.' - Dr Julian Doyle.

Want to hear the first season of Hollow Disciple? It's available right now wherever you get your podcasts, just search 'Hollow Disciple'.

It’s time to announce our first Waiting For October miniseries! Starting Sept. 6th in our feed we go “To The Moon” – but maybe not the Moon you’re used to!

Featuring Tina Case, Robin Regalado and Cass McPhee! Guest voices include Maddy Searle, Sarah Rhea Werner, Shannon Perry, Jenna Rose and Josh Rubino!

🚀 My first audio drama comes from an unexpected quarter—there’s this nonfiction show called First America that tells American history with indigenous history added back in, and one of the things they did this week was run a contest for Native American young folks to write stories about indigenous futures. And then they took one of those stories and made it into audio drama on the show. And it made me cry. I highly recommend the show in general, but I love when nonfiction shows get really into their creativity like this.

⛈️ This episode of @eelerschoice!!!! I’m so proud of literally everyone, particularly Nama. I really love how Eeler’s Choice is a show about environmental consequences, but it’s also a show about becoming better, growing. I adore the way these action sequences wrapped up the season—that sound design amirite???—and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

🥩 MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU, @thegospelofhaven is back!!! This season’s structure is so interesting—the multi-perspective thing has always worked great for The Gospel of Haven, and adding an element of time difference is going to be fascinating. Kale Brown is always a great time, but I’m especially excited for the additions of Nhea Durousseau and Jordan Cobb. I’m ALSO psyched about the book!!! The novelization!!!! Where is the link??? Get me in there.

💻 At this point I just expect @theredactedunit to never miss, and the way they used this week’s crossover ep as an opportunity to explore the life of fan fave Lucas was both smart and excellent. I’m kind of obsessed with the background story of the Eli time loop in this episode—that tiny repetition (and Lucas’ mental distance from it) hits hard. Lucas is not my type of poor little meow meow, but I did love this episode. Redacted knows its characters.

July was a bit of a disaster for me, which I talk about in the opening for this post, as well as laying out what to expect in August and beyond!

Monstrous Agonies is a fiction podcast that captures the weekly advice segment on the UK's only dedicated radio station for creatures of the night 👻🥰

Featuring:

A late-night radio advice show for monsters

A butter-voiced English narrator so soothing they have literally sent people to sleep (take care if listening while driving!)

Now complete at three seasons, there's over 100 episodes to binge, with additional bonus eps, bloopers and end-of-season Q&As

Full transcripts for every episode, linked in the show-notes

Average episode length of 10-15 minutes (can you tell it was made by someone with ADHD... 😉)

Monsters as a metaphor for marginalisation

Monsters as not-a-metaphor-at-all - sometimes a sentient tapeworm is just a sentient tapeworm

Asexual vampires! Gay werewolves! Trans lizard ladies! If it can be queer, by God it will be queer!

Funny ha-ha!

Also, funny like ‘wait, are they eating people?’

Variously described as, ‘eldritch late-night Radio Four’, ‘fun and full of love’, and ‘like a warm hug from a creature with one too many arms

Scan. Trial. Wire. Detach. Where is Dr Adra when you need her? 😥

Don’t miss episode 9 of The Vesta Clinic - out now where you get your podcasts!

(No sarcasm)

My podcast diary is where I keep a list of all of my audio dramas and (non) fiction podcasts. When i started listening to a lot more audio drama and realised one doc wasn't going to cut it anymore, i realised that i should convert it to keep track of the statuses and the number of podcasts I've listened to! As a bit of fun of course. Here's the picture of my most recent pages (and a long winded answer):

It's super handy for me so i know which podcasts i need to finish and its also super fun to customise!! I have them numbered and also have a little status box and descriptor. These are the ones i use most of the time (they change for audio drama and 'ye old regular' non-fiction podcast:

I've also collected random stickers across the years which is what my main intro page (as well as info in case it gets lost). I love how its grown over the years and its a little reflection of who i am!

I also have a little Hall Of Fame page at the very beginning for the podcasts I truly adore, have helped me grow/had a significant impact in my life, or just had a really outatanding production/engineering/acting quality it! (I haven't added The Patient Files or Parthenos yet but I will soon - just... imagine they are there also).

I also used to do monthly "podcasts of the month/ media of the month" but i do that in my own time and at the end of the year as a little "wrapped"/yearly review for myself which includes: podcast for each month, how many (new) pods i have listened to, and my top five from my own podcatcher! Here is my first entry:

This is just a little thing i came up with - I'm sure i didn’t invent it but i haven't seen it anywhere else... I love it so much and it of my prised possessions. So if anyone is interested and has a weird spare journal hanging around and you're an audio drama fan - go for it!! It's so much fun and it helps me stay creative when i have writers/artists block.

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