The End Issue #20 | Featuring Last Known Position & Wake Of Corrosion +4 recently finished shows & 5 more with new seasons coming soon!

This week, there’s a bit of an inversion happening in this issue compared to prior ones Oddly enough, there are more shows in the “Coming Soon” section this week than in “Recently Complete”. And, looking at my running list of target dates for new seasons of shows coming soon, this may quickly become the norm!

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Let’s get into it, shall we?

Featured Complete Audio Fiction

My personal recommendations based on quality of production, story… and just what I like. YMMV.

Last Known Position from QCODE Media

• Dramatized horror thriller
• 🌊🛥️🦑
• Season 1 finale released 10 Feb 2022
• 8 episodes
• Listening time: 4h 47m

A group of experts including submersible pilot Mikaela Soto (Gina Rodriguez) seek to recover a flight that suddenly vanished over the Pacific Ocean.

The super yacht sets off on what looks like an expedition funded by a grieving billionaire, William Cavanaugh (James Purefoy), to recover the flight that his wife and daughter were on. But the crew soon discovers that there’s more to the expedition than they were let on when they start to find themselves in increasingly perilous situations that point to a saboteur among the group, and a looming threat in the deep waters.

Wake Of Corrosion from Shadow & Static

• Dramatized scifi
• 😱🔥🪖
• Season 2 finale released 17 Jun 2022
• 21 episodes
• Listening time: 9h 45m

A UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden, apocalyptic world.

An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavors to find answers in the wreckage.

[Explicit content/Discretion advised]

Recently Complete Stories

Only four recently complete shows for you this week, which makes things more manageable!

The Key of Love from Emerald Audio Network

• Dramatized historical romance
• 🎵❄️🎙️
• Series complete as of 19 Jan 2023
• 8 episodes
• Listening time: 2h 49m

It’s New Year’s Eve,1942, WWII is raging, and Liberty Johannsen, a young chambermaid in Boston’s tony Back Bay, is kicked out of the only job — and home — she’s ever known after fighting off unwanted advances from the Governor’s son.

Nicknamed Songbird thanks to her beautiful voice, Libby takes a new position at the grand Fairmont Copley hotel in Boston, where she makes the acquaintance of blue-blooded composer Francis Key, unexpectedly becoming his muse…and soon, something much more.

Until Libby’s fiancé, Boston Globe photographer Clancy Armstrong, returns from the front. Libby faces a devastating choice, one that will affect not only these three lives but the course of American history forever.

A sweeping historical romance from New York Times and international bestseller Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family, THE KEY OF LOVE showcases one woman’s fierce love and burning ambition as she makes an impossible decision while the fate of the world is up for grabs.

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Check out other titles from Emerald Audio: Rainbow Girl by Jane Green

TurtleTown from Ufudu Tourism Board

• Dramatized fantasy
• 🐢 ✨🏜️
• Series complete as of 19 Jan 2023
• 16 episodes
• Listening time: 4h 33m

Ten years ago, Alef’s sister vanished into Ufudu — the city no one ever leaves. Now, he must follow a decade-old trail, navigate a city unlike any other, and find a way to escape. Or risk being trapped forever. Join us on an adventure full of colorful characters, exciting quests, and magical tortoises.

Troilus and Cressida from William Shakespeare | WorldStage21

• Dramatized drama
• 🏺⚔️🐴
• Season 1 finale released 9 Dec 2022
• 2 episodes
• Listening time: 2h 31m

A not-for profit, amateur audio theatre group for the 21st Century — Born out of the pandemic lockdowns in 2021.

In a previous incarnation as The Hope Theatre group (and earlier, St Mary’s Youth Theatre Menston) and led by our Director Peter Gilbert we were frustrated in our plans to perform on stage, so moved to audio with a new name and our first Shakespeare adaptation — Troilus and Cressida.

We plan to add further Shakespeare plays in the coming years.

Moriarty: The Devil’s Game from Treefort | Audible Original

• Dramatized thriller
• 🕵️‍♂️😈🎲
• Series complete as of 7 Jun 2022
• 10 episodes
• Listening time: 5h 26m

A bold new addition to the Sherlock Holmes universe, Moriarty: The Devils Game, dares to ask: What if Holmes’ most villainous nemesis was actually an innocent man?

Featuring Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings, Lost) in a riveting lead performance, Moriarty turns one of literature’s most famous rivalries on its head, recasting Professor James Moriarty as a desperate fugitive framed for murder–and hunted by dark forces who will stop at nothing to exploit his brilliance.

Moriarty finds the professor on the heels of an earth-shattering mathematical breakthrough–a formula so powerful, it can predict the future–and at the scene of a gruesome murder he must solve to prove his innocence. With London’s sprawling underworld as their battleground, Moriarty and Holmes match their peerless intellects to gain the ever-shifting upper hand. But as their duel escalates, so does the deadly cost of pursuing the truth. “What will it take to get your justice?” Dr. Watson asks an utterly ensnared Moriarty, “And if do you get it… what will you become?”

Vividly brought to life by a sensational cast and meticulously crafted sound design, Moriarty is a heart-pounding series filled with biting wit and shocking twists at every turn.

Listen closely — and assume nothing. The game is afoot.

New Seasons Coming Soon

Presented by Radio Drama Revival, one of the internet’s longest-running anthology audio drama shows, with the goal of showcasing the diversity and vitality of modern audio fiction.

A Walk with Ghosts from Bone13 Productions

• Dramatized drama
• 🕶️🎭🥰
• Returning 25 Jan 2023 for season 3
• 30 current episodes
• Listening time: 3h 22m

A lone wandering man stumbles across a radio talk show and tells the audience his story. This story takes us through his hard and interesting life and the people he had come across. His struggles with life are showcased in this dark, dramatic and romantic story.

Discovery Mountain from Voice of Prophecy

• Dramatized children’s adventure
• ✝️🎒⛰️
• Returning 1 Feb 2023 for season 24
• 149 current episodes
• Listening time: 72h 46m

Each week, join the residents of Discovery Mountain for a Bible-based audio adventure as they experience mystery, overcome obstacles, and exercise their faith in God.

Breathing Space from Law of Names Media

• Dramatized scifi anthology
• 🌈🚀🤠
• Returning 3 Feb 2023 for season 3
• 30 current episodes
• Listening time: 21h 03m

A bi-weekly anthology Science Fiction audio drama, telling the stories of the people of the Sol System.

Selene from Aaron J. Reardon (Clever > Than)

• Narrated mystery
• 👻😔🌚
• Returning 6 Feb 2023 for season 10
• 47 current episodes
• Listening time: 16h 42m

Selene — A Strange City Lying Alone.

Weekly Narrated Supernatural Mystery & Horror Audiodrama.

Omega Star 7 from Omega Star Productions

• Dramatized comedy
• 🚀🥜🍨
• Returning 7 Feb 2023 for season 2
• 30 current episodes
• Listening time: 13h 37m

In a galaxy known as the ”Sometime, Somewhere” sits a cluster of wild stars known as Omega Star 7. These are the tales of the crews who dare to call this place home.

Sardonic, self aware, and a little bit silly. Omega Star 7 is what you‘d have if a famed science fiction satirist set out to write Dune, and ended up with Star Wars. Inspired by Westerns, Pulpy Science Fiction B-Movies, and Space Operas this show has a little for everyone. Whether it‘s the improvised dialogue, ”No-Earth” setting akin to Fantasy, or the Soundtrack filled with Synths and Sludgy Desert Rock. Surely you can find something to love, or hate, about Omega Star 7.

Content Contains Language and Scenarios not always appropriate for children.

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