Audio Drama Central

Podcast Appreciation Blog | Doctor of Botanical Fleshcraft | Will tag for things on request | Follows from: @ipswitch-north | Podcast recommendations encouraged

[boombox-fuckboy]

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My asks are still open if you want to give me podcast recommendations. I appreciate being given recommendations.

Requests for me to give you recommendations are open, but unlikely to go through as I am very tired and busy. I hope to one day not be very tired and busy so I can make lots of recommendations again.

Lists of what I've already heard can be found here (audio drama A-Q), here (audio drama R-Z), and here (TTRPG pods). Check before asking if I've heard something.

I don't listen to erotica or musicals.

Don't recommend something with a sex scene without also providing the timestamps to avoid it.

I don't care about romance (genre). Shows with romance in them are fine, it's just the genre.

My focus has historically been sub-par for improv, but try your luck.

I'm generally not interested in non-fiction podcasts, but I am open to natural history stuff.

Will listen to basically anything else.

Violence, gore, body horror etc. all free game/encouraged.

[vosling]

audio drama sunday 2026-08-16

Happy audio drama sunday. I listened to incredible work this week so let's dive into it

Shadows at the Door S1E6: Pit Village I'm not great at committing to anthologies, but I supported their Beck's End kickstarter (a northern England folk horror) and that made me want to get to know their previous work. Half of the episodes is Mark Nixon and David Ault discussing the story, its themes, and other related stories/media/culture. Like a little horror classics book club :) This week I listened to Pit Village, an original story by Mark and my favorite thus far. One that makes me very excited to see Beck's End produced.

Catskull Episode 10-13 Noir belongs to the teenage misfits. I'm halfway through the show and it's getting tough to listen because of the tension. I just know that Ram committing to choices made will lead to horrible consequences down the line, meanwhile we're just sitting to himself digging deeper, his hunger for self destruction unrestrained. It is noir after all. Just way more painful to listen to when it's a teenager whose desperation and need to be seen are far more relatable than any grizzled 50s detective.

36 Questions – The Podcast Musical Full show The straights are not okay: the musical. I needed to listen to a musical for my podcast bingo and this is the one. Very enjoyable in a romcom disaster kind of way. Some questionable moments in parenting and shifting relationships with parents could have been explored deeper if the show wasn't kinda gimmicky, but that's okay. It was entertaining.

Our Wars Have Ended Episode 5: Poor Sport This was fun I love consequences. I enjoyed getting a better sense of how this land is so immensely divided into little states and how the systems in place may be exploited by power. Cruelty as entertainment. Then, the mountain spirit fighting back? oooogh. In some ways it feels like the show is past introductions now. I'm excited to see what happens next.

Dustwalker Episode 1-4 I. LOVE. THIS. SHOW. The banter of this show feels like when I'm hangout out with my fellow transgender besties. The worldbuilding, the magic system, the intrigue, oooooh I am eating it up.

Roy Kaplan Episode 1-8 Paranormal scifi noir set in some kind of post eco-collapse (radiation) earth, which (so far) serves to keep the setting isolated. This show was a great companion on a long travel day. The individual cases are fun - sometimes it's pretty clear whodunnit but the show makes it about enjoying the process of Roy gathering evidence and getting into trouble. That's good writing.

WOE.BEGONE Episode 258 + a few relistens for the wiki I usually forget to list WOE.BEGONE because it's such a given that I listen to this show :') I really enjoy the Ship of Theseus elements of Season 22. This midseason finale motivated me to update a bunch of different wiki pages and. well. I'm glad we have two weeks until the next episode because there's a lot that needs updating.

Goldenrod - A Horror Podcast Episode 1 The long-awaited first episode of Goldenrod has come out and FUCK. FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. IT'S SO GOOD. Beautiful contemporary gothic writing set in Canada. The show balances social awkwardness and micro aggressions really well, and really takes its time to let you simmer in dread before hitting you with some kind of release. Everyone go give this show a listen now.

Before I Forget (Again) Episode 1 On my radar since the kickstarter earlier this year, the first episode of BIFA is out!!! The first episode kinda drops you in the middle of a situation with little context and I love that. I love waiting for answers and having to speculate or uphold five different worlds in the mean time <- spoken like a WOE.BEGONE fan. We know as little as Cielle right now and that's fun. Episodes like these ask a little bit more trust from the audience but I love the payoff, it really rewards relistens one you've finished the show/season and have the full picture. Excited to keep going.

In A Walled City How to Become a Ghost (Without Dying) I finished the show early this month but I find myself relistening to this story/song because it's just incredible. Your helicopters will cover me as I fall. Your eyes on every part of my body as I break. With spreadsheet latex finger you wrote salt into estuaries until they were no longer estuaries. With trowel-folded paper you take from the inside of the hills. You toss yourself over your own shoulders and scatter across the pavement. Cartographer of poison, geologist of bound hands, your names are distant constant engines, struggling and coughing, night after night. Our captors praised our spirit as they so often do

The Very Prudent Decisions of Hortlakçı Süleyman Hoca Chapter 8 This week had beginnings and an end. The last episode of Süleyman Hoca was released this week. Ough. My heart. The Podcast Bookclub is hosting a shared listen to the show starting today, which eases the bittersweet goodbye some.

The Gospel of Haven Chapter 12: Forged/Found I'll admit I've only listened to half the episode so far - it's a big one. But between this and the (ongoing, check it out) Gospel of Haven Novel kickstarter: very pleased with the amount of blood and sloughing flesh this week :>

[rosesart11]

A while back, I talked to my friend whose really into pokemon (hiiii if your reading this <3) about Kingmaker and decided to think up what their teams could be on the fly

i'd change some of them but i still believe in my heart that Telesphore should have a fucking insane pokemon team and than like,

a singular Alcremie, his little princess who he spoils rotten

[kingmakerpod]

Colette would definitely have a sableeye and a mimikyu on her team, and maybe a sylveon too, based entirely on the fact that I think those three together sum up her whole vibe. Though I don't think she'd be very good as a pokemon trainer.

[asbestos4president]

We got some attention recently so I'm gonna make an effort to promote the show.

What is Hamuel Burger and the American Dream?

Audiodrama. Follows Idaho farmboy HAMUEL BURGER as he is kidnapped by evil alien ASBESTOS LE GUIN to help win a speedrunning competition to kill the American president. Meanwhile the president has already been killed accidentally by two awesome lesbians who are now in charge of the whitehouse. Will they learn an important lesson about family, friendship and potatoes, or will they just kind of have a bad time?

On the way to their goal, the cast encounters ren faires, bank robbery, golf, assassination attempts, organ harvesting, facepainting, peanut butter, the US postal service, the actual biblical devil, real person fanfiction and more.

Is this a real podcast?

A lot of people are asking this, but yes

Now is a good time to get into hit podcast Hamuel Burger as there are two episodes remaining! Just two! you can't make me do a second season i have a family

[asbestos4president]

and it's good btw i should mention that it's good. it's nice

[its-sappho]

I love how every audio drama basically takes a blorbo made in a lab for the gays to be insane about and puts them into certain horrors. And then I eat that shit up every time

[shelterwoodpod]

Is Nicholas DeRoso a:

critter

creature

beast

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[bastardraccooon]

more people need to listen to mirrors podcast asap i NEED to talk about it PLEASE if you love women and wonky time stuff listen to mirrors

[annabelle--cane]

mirrors is so high quality on basically every axis and for what? for me to have two mutuals who've listened to it and no one else? every day I think about z and the different ways agency was taken from her life

[arofili]

podcast posters ★ MIRRORS

It didn’t have a clearly defined shape, this ghost. More like a tall, vague shadow. But its shape suggested someone in long, loose clothing. Maybe a nightgown, or a long shapeless dress. It was pale, and slightly translucent. I couldn’t make out any facial features. In fact, I think it was wearing some kind of veil, something covering the face. But something about it did give me the impression of being watched. At first I also thought she had long, trailing sleeves, like something from the Middle Ages. Then I realized those weren’t her sleeves at all. They were her fingers.

[rhapsodyexiledpod]

Sometimes a passion project means hiding away for years in isolation as you beat said project into submission and emerge one night with both of you shaking and scared and covered in blood.

[lost-in-derry]

Reblog if it’s ok for your mutuals to tag you in posts they think you’ll like even if you don’t talk often.

[augusttapes]

If you’ve been wanting more Cassette Tapes From August, it’s here.

we’ve updated how access to our monthly short story series will work — the first story is now available to all members! If you want to learn how Willowdale was rebuilt after the events of season one, now you can!

Going forward, new short stories will immediately be for paid patrons. Then, after three months, we’ll unlock them for everyone! Get started here!

[podkeeper]

I'm partially drunk on feminine, sweet, and colorful alcoholic beverages, and honestly, I think this is the best time to recommend Parthenos - Girls Like Us.

I'd like to point out that half the time, I'm not even a woman. I'm a girl in a somewhat abstract way, I'm a girl in the way that Pluto is a planet or in the way that you order Coca-Cola and they offer you Pepsi and you say "okay." It's not technically exact, but almost there, and almost doesn't make a difference, right?

That's why I often have difficulty connecting with very feminist pieces; I feel like it's not really about me, even when I identify with the themes, and that's why it took me a long time to give this podcast a chance.

And who would have thought... This podcast is exactly for someone like me. All the contradictions and revolts and blood on the tongue of being a woman (or a girl, or something in between, or something almost there) encompassed within a plot about the tragic archetype that exists about the feminine and death. I don't want to give spoilers. It's a show exactly about what it is: Girls, almost women, in a purple world weighed down by prejudice and hardship, and an existence that barely fits you. All the ways you can rebel. All the ways you can be right and wrong at the same time.

A hand in yours. A child-woman huddled in the dark. A leopard-print blanket. A kiss on the forehead. A "I've got you now, let's take care of you."

This show is about me wrapping a favorite plush toy in a surgical gown just so my patient, so young, can snuggle up to something soft while she sleeps in the emergency room. Thirteen-year-old girls, in their wedding dresses, arriving in the underworld.

I recommend this podcast to anyone. I'm half drunk and my niece is a comforting, sleeping weight in my arms. It's warm and alive, the world hasn't been cruel to her yet.

Listen to Parthenos @parthenospodcast

Please.

[grifff17]

I finally listened to The Sterling Girl after hearing a bunch of chatter about it. It’s really good! Very cool story about the nature of personhood. I love well written child characters, and the fairytale vibes are great. I’d love to see more stories in this world. Definitely go check it out, it’s under an hour long and a one-off so it takes very little commitment.

[moldybee]

I have successfully indoctrinated my grandma into fiction podcasts. She eagerly awaits new Magnus Protocol episodes with me. We are currently making our way through Wolf 359 and she'll turn excitedly to me and ask to put it on when we are alone. She is even looking some up on her own now and asking if I've heard of it. I love my grandma.

[luvnotpercival]

The heart yearns to make fanart of the character in the small fiction podcast

[project-daydream]

Vintage.... because every girl needs her hobbies.

This is mostly what I (Moira) see in my head when I am writing about "The Car". A weird blend of vintage design that almost feels like it could be real. But doesn't seem to all fit together. Yet it works. And naturally, six wheels. Because I'm a dork.

Anyway, enjoy a little rainy night for our agents, enjoying a greasy spoon tea and a long drive home.