Radio Drama Revival

Piffling's least favorite undertaker, Rudyard Funn, takes to the woods for an unorthodox funeral in this episode of the delightful British sitcom Wooden Overcoats. Their latest season digs deeper into the lives of their oddball characters, and it's even more hilarious—and more poignant—than ever. This week, we bring you Episode 3: "Rudyard Takes a Hike". And stay tuned: next week, David chats with Rudyard and Antigone themselves, Felix Trench and Beth Eyre!

Wolf 359 - Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat

David talks story evolution, social commentary and unreliable narrators with Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat from Wolf 359.

Wolf 359 - 'Memoria'

This is one of my favorite episodes of any audio drama. It encompasses everything I love about Wolf 359: its pacing, its plotting, its deep humanism, and its fantastic writing, music, and performances. Like all great science fiction, it is about more than just its text—and I think that's what attracted me to this episode. I'll be talking to Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat, the two main writers behind Wolf 359, next week -- and so to prep for that, I wanted to revisit an old favorite. This episode falls in Season 3 of Wolf 359, so while I think it's a successful standalone (and I provide more context in the episode itself), you should certainly feel free to dive into the series and start from the beginning. I promise it's worth it. What does "Memoria" represent to you? Let me know what you think; hit us up in the comments or talk at us on Twitter; we're @radiodrama.

Fall of the House of Sunshine - Matt Roi Berger, Jonathan Goldberg, & Marcus Bagala

I sat down with Matt Roi Berger, Jonathan Goldberg, and Marcus Bagala of The Fall of the House of Sunshine to discuss craft, prog rock albums, President Harding fighting a walrus, and, of course, teeth.

Fall of the House of Sunshine - 'Days of Future Fuzz'

A struggle between flesh and fuzz. A mad emperor, cackling atop a grand pyramid of his own creation. A band of fleshy rebels with moxie, verve, and puffy-paint! It's an ass-kicking, name-taking space-age rock musical, back for more: this time it's even weirder. YUP oh man oh man it's The Fall of the House of Sunshine, Season II: DAYS OF FUTURE FUZZ. If you loved the previous utterly wackadoo sampling from this show, I think you're going to love Season 2 even more. You don't need to have listened to the first season to make sense of the second. Suffice it to say that there was a sinister plot to detonate the fuzzatronic bomb—an arcane weapon that turned everything into fuzzy puppets and stuffed animals. Well. Almost everything. There's a very fun guest star in this episode, to boot! ENJOY, and stick around for next week's show, an interview with some of the creative dynamos behind this project!

Gone - Sunny Moraine

Sunny Moraine joins me to discuss their horror podcast, Gone, their stream-of-consciousness writing/performing style, their terrifying-but-fascinating doctoral dissertation, and so much more! We discuss: Sunny's origins in podcasting LARPing? The balance between mystery-box plots and Explaining Everything Foucault's heterotopia, and spaces outside of normal rules Mental illness and apocalypse (where did they all go?!) Poetry! Sunny's other fiction, particularly eyes I dare not meet in dreams

Gone - 'Awakening'

It's morning, and something's different. Everything's different. Everyone's gone. No commotion, no explanation. Suddenly the world is emptied of people. Except for you. This is Sunny Moraine's GONE, a taut, claustrophobic horror podcast about waking up and realizing you're entirely alone in the world. It's kind of the horror-counterpart to Michelle Nickolaisen's UNPLACED, at least superficially -- but while those two shows twine around similar themes, their execution couldn't be more different. We play episode 1 of Gone, "Awakening". Stay tuned for next week's show, when show creator Sunny and I sit down for a chat about their creative process, their dissertation in sociology, and makin' scary fiction.

Boom - Faith McQuinn

Boom - Season 2, 'Everything I Could'