Cornucopia Radio

Writers & creative performers in Sheffield & Yorkshire. We make radio audiodrama & comedy podcasts. Created in Sheffield.  http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk

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After 17 Years, Our Very Final Audiodrama Production To Appear On The 'Cornucopia Radio' Website Is Online Today:

"The Gilded Imagination"

Our new #audiodrama is online right now, and it’s a very special one as it’s going to be the very final production to ever appear on the Cornucopia Radio website:

Cornucopia-Radio.co.uk/gilded-imagination

Starring amazing Cornucopia regular performers: Hannah Lloyd, Pip Mason and Andrew Biss 

Journey into your own imagination; as the very headphones you listen to this story on will make a direct physical connection to your limbic system. Allowing one of our highly trained visualization therapists to talk to you directly and help you imagine the story you’ve wanted to tell for so long. Even though you feel you’ve lost your creativity, and this is no longer a tale you have within you.

‘The Gilded Imagination’ is the final production to be produced by Peter Beeston and Cornucopia Radio before he moves onto other projects. However all the work created over the past 17 years will remain available to listen to via our website and the different podcast feeds, and nothing will be removed in the future. Let me know if you've enjoyed any of our previous productions in the past.

This brand new production (which mixes audio asmr roleplay and action soundscapes) is a personal journey that is meant to be a conclusion for ‘Cornucopia Radio’. It’s all about the mindset of a person (who might actually be Peter Beeston) who creates stories like this. Suggesting that all these productions might come from another reality beyond ours...

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Even though the series is over. New people are still discovering "Pod To Pluto" each and every week & the series has had over 100,000 downloads! Visit our site today to subscribe & listen to all the episodes. If you've never listened; trust us, it's the best scifi comedy podcast you haven't yet heard 🚀

http://cornucopia-radio.co.uk/pluto

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We have a new collection of #audiodrama work that has gone live on our website today, and has also been added to our main ‘Cornucopia Radio’ podcast feed and is streaming on our #spokenword #internetradio station!

http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/alisdairadams

Two very good friends Mary and Jean are visiting Sheffield Cathedral, listening to the church organ music, viewing the medieval art and enjoying their sandwiches. But what is Jean going on about? Illuminati Ham? Vajazzling? King Tutankamun’s Chiropodist? They’re soon joined by two other ladies and the conversation gets even stranger, including a story about a tragic accident involving triangular chocolate.

It’s just another crazy day in the middle of the steel city, as you join us for our very funny, one-off audiodrama sitcom. Starring four amazing comedic actresses; Janice Sampson, Gayle Hazelby, Sarah Betts and Mandy Sims. With the script written by the very talented Alisdair Adams. You’ll notice lots of references to different things in #Sheffield if you live or have lived here.

There are also two other new productions on this page (‘The Light Within’ & 'Natalie and Jen') also written by Alisdair Adams, which I’ll be promoting later this week.

Leave us a comment if you’ve listened, we’d love to know if you enjoyed the story and characters.    

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Our epic #Christmas #AudioDrama #Comedy from 2015 featuring Merlin the wizard, a killer evil snowman (performed by Dave Benson Phillips!) serving as the conclusion to the ‘Legend of Nic & Joe’ story is still available at http://cornucopia-radio.co.uk/nicandjoe

Make it a new Christmas tradition to listen!

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‘Pod To Pluto’ is back! But this time in book form!!

Available to buy right now as an ebook or paperback; “Pod To Pluto - The Last Day” is the new full length novelization of our #scifi #sitcom #audiodrama, written by Peter Richard Adams.

Read all about Jemima and Pod’s five-year round trip to Pluto to switch off a lightbulb over 314 pages in a bigger, better, funnier and much more expanded story!

You can buy it right now via Amazon:

International Purchase Link: https://mybook.to/podtopluto

UK Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CL54NJRB

Artwork by Andy Dickinson at ‘The Quill Design’.

Also, if you update the main ‘Pod To Pluto’ podcast feed today in your apps, you’ll discover a brand new bonus message from Pod and Jemima! https://pod.link/1338725618

If you’ve read the book, we’d love you to let us know what you think. Should we write another volume of this epic tale in the future?

Stay special everyone and thanks so much for supporting us!

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The Call Out - AudioBook ~ AudioDrama

He’d been at "Fast Kill" for six years, and had already learnt so much about pest eradication. Including making plans, setting traps, laying bait and establishing kill zones. So he was confident in quitting to start his own pest control company under the name “Rapid Kill Solutions”.

He soon discovered his first day working for himself would involve a potential cockroach infestation. He thought it would be easy. He was wrong...

"The Call Out" is a new horror audiobook for 2023. So get ready for a skin-crawling tale about those little bugs behind our walls and under our floorboards. Who will win in the battle between pest and eradicator?

Listen And Download Here:

http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/the-call-out

Always feel free to get in contact and let us know what you thought, we love reading your comments!

CREDITS: Performed/Read By Tim Winters Written By Phil Ryan Produced & Directed by Peter Beeston

The end music used in this production was Hour Of The Witch by Scott Buckley. Sound effects via: freesound.org & videvo.net

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What are you own recommendations for Halloween media at the moment? What horror films, music, stories or podcasts do you enjoy at this time of year as the nights draw in?

Here’s a video I’ve just recorded of a pop up book I own of Poe’s “The Raven” I adore an intricately designed piece of papercraft, and this is a great one to have on my desk in October.

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It's that spooky time of year again! So our internet-Radio station has switched to a total %100 #Halloween playlist for the entire next five days. Hear scary audiodramas, poetry & music! 🎃

Try listening via our website: http://cornucopia-radio.co.uk/radio-stream or ask any of your internet devices to play 'Cornucopia Broadcasting' via TuneIn https://tunein.com/radio/Cornucopia-Broadcasting-s140798

On the stream amongst all the other work; you'll be able to hear the four new pieces we've recorded over the last few weeks; "The Muse", "A Happy Saturday", "Old Ground" and this Monday we'll be releasing our final brand new #audiobook for #Halloween2023 "The Call Out"

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On a pitch black night. On a storm swept road a few miles out of town. Torrential rain had soaked him to the skin in seconds. But he had never been so grateful of a passing lift in his whole life. He opened the passenger car door and got in, and slowly the truth was revealed...

http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/short-video-fiction

“Old Ground” is our brand new #shortstory #flashfiction audio/video piece for #Halloween2023 about a mysterious meeting on an empty road.

I really like the original #graphicnovel artwork I’ve created for the video visuals and the tone/style I’ve directed the work with. I got a #CliveBarker #Hellraiser feel when I first read this story from Gareth and I’ve used this initial feeling in the final work.

As ever, do leave a comment with you own thoughts. I love the way we can all have our own ideas about a story and what it means; and no differing interpretation is ever wrong 

Old Ground Written By Gareth Brownbill Performed By Idiom (Nick Anderson) Music: Dark Depression by Ashot Danielyan - Via a Creative Commons License Video and Audio Edited By Peter Beeston

This work is part of our 2023 #Halloween collection

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Are you looking for creative inspiration? A way to turn an empty page into a story for the ages? Then you’ll need to connect with your own “Muse”, but that creature of beauty and horror will need much more from you. Are you prepared to give it?

“The Muse” is a brand new #AudioBook for 2023 written by the brilliant Christopher Lee Scoville and voiced acted by the amazingly talented Justine Leah Hince.

This is the first of our new ‘Cornucopia Radio’ collection of #Halloween #Horror themed #FlashFiction pieces to be released this month. Tales to unnerve, get under your skin and leave a mark! We’ve got more to come over the next few weeks, so keep an eye on this page.

You can download this video, the mp3 version or subscribe to the podcast to get these pieces automatically via our website: http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/short-video-fiction

Also let us know what you thought of this production and the story. I know how hard Christopher and Justine worked to bring it to you, and they would love to read your comments.

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Don't Let Your Mind Wander - AudioDrama

The first episode of the new Vanishment anthology #audiodrama #audiofiction podcast is now available via our own website:

http://cornucopia-radio.co.uk/wander

It’s a new beautifully haunting story about an astronaut communicating back home & hearing a voice that is reassuringly familiar yet cannot possibly be real.

Written by Richard H Brooks. With Music by Dayn Leonardson

I (Peter Beeston) did the editing and sound design. I’d love you to listen and tell me what you think. I’ve tried to create a unique feeling and tone with the sound design; whose point of view is this story being told from and what’s real and what isn’t? Give me your thoughts.

And if you ever need an editor/mixer for your own fiction productions, do get in touch and I can give you quote.

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Four men; each of them have their own reasons to be underground in that mine. Each of them wanting something, looking for something. But when you’re 100ft underneath the sea, nothing is as it seems.

Listen to our new crime thriller “The Killer Mine” right now at: http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/killermine/

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There are lots of #Pulp#Artwork covers for the novel of our latest #audiodrama "The Killer Mine" that have been published over the years. I love these evocative old pulp book & magazine covers. Have you got any faves you want to share with me?

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Our new #audiodrama #audiofiction crime thriller "The Killer Mine" by Hammond Innes is now on our website & radio station. Join us 100ft underground & try to escape a dangerous flooded mine with us!

http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/killermine

I'd really love to know if you enjoyed listening! So leave me a comment!

The story is about Jim Pryce, a deserter from the British army who finds himself back in England working alongside criminals in an old abandoned tin mine. But they don’t want to mine any of this tin; instead they want to use the mine to illegally important liquor by exploding the main tunnel into the sea and flooding the mine. Jim will have to fight for his life and escape the raging sea and a crazy old man if he’s to make it back to the surface and live another day.

‘The Killer Mine’ is based on the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. It was originally adapted into an episode of the 1951 CBS OTR radio series ‘Escape!’ (the story from the novel heavily condensed to fit into the 30 minute format). It has been slightly re-written, edited and directed for 2023 by Peter Beeston. It has been remade for this years ‘Sonic Society’ summerstock festival in which modern audio-fiction companies take on the challenge of remaking classic ‘Old Time Radio’ shows.

We have an amazing cast of stella #voiceacting With the voices of: Rhys Jennings as Jim Price Fiona Thraille as Sam Wayne Russell as Davey Andrew Biss as Captain Manack Tim Winters as Old Man Manack And Bjorn Munson as Slim

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“Keep Digging” Wins 2023 Grand Jury Prize!

Wow! My #RadioArt submission for this year's international '60 Secondes Radio' festival won the $1000 grand prize via a jury vote today! It was a great batch of people from around the around who submitted work this year, and I’m so humbled that my little idea was so appreciated. Thanks so much to Matt McAteer for helping me create this work by recording the dialogue I had written. https://www.60secondesradio.com/winners-laureats2023?fbclid=IwAR0K1FQ1zN_safWCUqV-SRgPdofamsnP8mfAiu2GThNHUA7DPu-2mpEdKDo

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Visit Original Link

We're really happy to say a brand new addition to our #SpokenWord #IntenetRadio station is the work of 'Diane Rossie'. Catch her reading her short stories like "Landmines & Plate Glass Windows" in constant rotation on our stream. You can also listen to her work via: https://soundcloud.com/user-712254270

You can listen to our #RadioStation via our website: http://cornucopia-radio.co.uk/radio-stream/ and on all online radio platforms. If you'd like to add any of your own work to the stream; please get in touch with us!

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We’ve been telling stories on our website cornucopia-radio.co.uk for over 15 years now. Sharing both fiction and non-fiction audio and podcasts across multiple genres & podcasts.

Here’s to all the stories we haven’t yet told...