Thought I'd try compiling one of these lists of new audio drama podcast debut releases, so here you go. Feel free to shout in the comments if you've got more information or corrections and I'll update with anything I'm missing. (Note, "new" here means the Ep1 of the RSS feed was released in the relevant month.) If you can point me in the direction of embed code for the ones I'm missing, will happily add that.
7/1: Afterlight Origins (RPG - Actual play)
An actual play, taking place in the world of Arlynn, a torn world filled with shadows.
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7/1: Apon Plays! (RPG - Actual play)
Real Play podcast with a rotating series of RPG adventures.
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7/1: Justice League: Dimension Leap (Fiction - Superhero)
Green Arrow and Black Canary are celebrating their wedding as Diana Prince watches from the sidelines. Suddenly she is approached by a familiar face from her past.
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7/1: Pang! (Drama - Anthology)
"Pang!" is a series of audio dramas from Dan Froot & Company, based on the oral histories of families around the country who are living below the poverty line and hungering for change.
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7/1: Quest Company Junior (RPG - Actual play)
The Quest Company is a group of storytellers playing through our own original adventures on this live-play RPG podcast! Join us as we introduce you to new games and explore worlds full of fun and creativity! Fun at the table, fun for the family. Join The Quest Company today!
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7/1: The Story Slot (Drama - Anthology)
The Story Slot features adaptations of traditional stories and fairytales, performed by a small group of performers.
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7/2: Codename Cormorant (Drama - Science fiction)
Deadly conspiracies in occupied europe. Ancient horrors stalking the mist shrouded jungles of the south Pacific. Axis superweapons unleashed on the beaches of Normandy. Get in the fight.
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7/2: Cryptid Cape (Drama - Urban fantasy)
Avra Nunez wants to start over, and Water’s Edge just might be the place for that. It also might be home to nymphs, ghosts, and the Jersey Devil.
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7/2: Dark Romance Novels & Stories (Fiction - Romance)
Contemporary, historical, and paranormal love stories with strong characters, real conflicts, and occasionally explicit scenes.
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7/2: Quiet Island (Drama - Horror)
Follow a group of students as they embark on a research trip to a previously unexplored island.
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7/3: Rokwandea Radio (Drama - Science fiction)
Rokwandea Radio is a multi-universal broadcasting channel. Recently Earth has been able to recieve the unique broadcast that is Rokwandea Radio. From the ocean worlds of Universes of Iona Sphere ZZJ12 to the pardise realms of Iona sphere AAG1, we bring you news current events and interviews from accross the entire multi-verse.
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7/4: Bad Heroes (RPG - Actual play)
A Pathfinder RPG comedy adventure podcast with a love of storytelling, roleplay, and the more charming forces of hell.
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7/4: Compromised (Drama - Science fiction)
A cyberpunk based fictional podcast, taking place in a futuristic Philadelphia. Follow Psyl0, and FritX as their world is turned upside down and they learn to find their way through this future version of America.
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7/4: Magical Bullshit (RPG - Actual play)
We are an Actual Play Pathfinder podcast. Each season runs a new campaign and we are currently in our first season: Sentience.
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7/5: Not Another Bedtime Story (Fiction - Thriller)
A weekly short story written and recorded by Brian Tripp. (Ep 1: The short story follows a detective investigating a murder. Ep 2: A tale about one mans transgression and what it cost him.)
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7/5: Pax Fortuna! (RPG - Actual play)
Pax Fortuna! is a comedy-fantasy roleplaying podcast. In the merchant republic of Fortuna, there are no kings and no knights, only the levelling honesty of gold. Our heroes must beat, bluff and blunder to adventure.
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7/5: Project Z (Drama - Comedy)
Think your school is tough? Lola Chump just moved countries. She’s in love with the principal’s son. Her new principal is an actual witch who hates children. Oh, and her parents are FLESH-EATING ZOMBIES! Join me, your mysterious narrator who is DEFINITELY NOT BRUCE FROM BRUCE-TUBE as we follow Lola’s adventures in Project Z.
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7/5: Role to Cast (RPG - Actual play)
An actual-play podcast with trained actors, original music & homebrew campaigns. We'll even throw in some Australian laughs!
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7/5: The Pod Called Quest (RPG - Actual play)
From humble beginnings in a living room to a full-on gaming space, the cast of The Pod Called Quest is here to bring you the best long-form tabletop actual play podcast around.
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7/6: Conquest (Drama - Fanfiction)
It’s been a hundred years since the elements and their bearers have disappeared. Equestria since hasn’t been the same, left in a state of hopelessness and disorder with little the princesses can do.
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7/6: Tara Tremendous (Drama - Superhero)
Tara Tremendous: The Secret Diaries is a high-quality superhero podcast series revolving around 11-year-old Tara Callahan who accidentally acquires the powers of every superhero in the world! Filled with mystery, action-adventure and comedy, this musically-infused superhero podcast series is a show the whole family can enjoy featuring a full-cast adventure with dialogue, sound effects, instrumental score and original songs.
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7/7: Dice Out, Now Game! (RPG - Actual play)
Dice Out, Now Game! is a 5e D&D actual play podcast. Join 3 rowdy bois and their stoic orc companion as they try to piece together the events of a wedding they don't quite remember.
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7/7: Nazaria (Drama - Fantasy)
A fantasy adventure set in a world of magic and wonder, surrounded by an elvish war and an ever-closer annihilation.
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7/7: Water is Not My Only Name (Drama - Real life)
When internationally acclaimed artist Nam recovers from a terrible addiction to Ya-Ba (Thai-meth) he suffers a dangerous relapse and must face his darkest place to keep a sacred Buddhist promise and restore himself to health.
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7/8: Dreamnasium (Drama - Anthology)
An anthology show adapting the short stories of Geoffrey Thorne, full of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and intrigue!
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7/8: Meet/Cute (Drama - Romance)
Alyssa and Arnie, two podcast hosts who despise each other, find they have more in common than the same podcast title, Meet/Cute. This edgy podcast is equal part sit-com, rom-com, and hangout comedy.
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7/8: The Blondes (Drama - Horror)
An adaptation of Emily Schultz’s satirical, sci-fi horror novel, The Blondes. Set two years after SHV has infected blonde women with a rabies-like illness, a fictional podcast examines how the "Blond Fury" has changed our culture: from fashionable new fever bracelets, to empowerment pop songs for the infected, to an entirely new understanding of women, gender, and beauty. What begins as the story of Hazel Hayes — the unlikely, eight-months-pregnant hero who reveals government abuses at evaluation centers — turns much thornier when her personal life and role in the outbreak is churned into the mediascape. Angry, funny, and with dark turns into body horror, The Blondes is an unflinching look at what happens when beauty becomes, literally, deadly.
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7/9: Feddie Scum (RPG - Actual play)
Feddie Scum is an actual play RPG podcast set in Gundam's Universal Century. Dallas, Zach, Matt, and Kat are at the whim of the GM, Adam, as he leads them through the One Year War.
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7/9: Full Cast Production (Drama - Anthology)
Mysteries, love stories, thrillers, that tug the heart strings and tickle the mind.
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7/9: The Long Hallway (Drama - Anthology)
The Long Hallway is a thriller anthology series, releasing every Tuesday and Thursday. Behind each door lurks a tale designed to send a chill down your spine.
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7/10: How I Died (Drama - Urban fantasy)
Follow Forensic Pathologist, Jon Spacer, as he solves crimes by talking to the ghost of the victim during the autopsy. But this town not only boasts a high mortality rate, it also has some of the strangest ways to die.
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7/10: Legends of Thyme: The Lost Tree (Fiction - Fantasy)
A local teacher, Thyme, is set upon a quest by three Sunflowers to venture into the Dark Wood. Will she be able to find the prince and free the forest from the dominion of its all-knowing Tree?
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7/12: Life with Althaar (Drama - Science fiction)
An SF sitcom for your ears about an unlikely human/alien friendship in the unluckiest place in Human space.
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7/12: Neon Jezebel (Fiction - Thriller)
Millionaire playboy, Cranston Walker, has left the high life behind to play bodyguard to a controversial, female lecturer. However, the direst of dangers come from the unlikeliest of places.
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7/14: Angel and May (Drama - Science fiction)
Angel and May are two worn out private investigators from LA. Events take a turn and they embark on a journey which will take them across time and space to the asteroid colony "New London". They hole up in a dodgy pub run by a crazy drag queen. What could possibly go wrong! They say the skies are the limit, but they're just the beginning!
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7/15: A Point In Time (Drama - Anthology)
A Point In Time is an episodic audio drama telling the stories of different points in history. An accurate fictional history anthology for story lovers, history buffs, and general podcast listeners.
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7/15: Carrier (Drama - Thriller)
What happens when a truck driver picks up a loaded trailer, but has no idea what’s really inside? Journey down a dark and lonely highway in this thriller.
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7/15: Master Builder (Drama - Real life)
Master Builder tells the story of the rise and fall of Helen ‘Sully’ Sullivan, an intensely passionate and ambitious architect who designs outrageous homes for the very rich.
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7/17: Jones & Woolf (Fiction - Anthology)
A monthly audio fiction podcast pairing literary noir and sci-fi with original music.
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7/17: Village (Drama - Comedy)
From the county that brought you Pork Pie, Peter Shilton, the King in the Car Park, and Engelbert Humperdinck, comes Village. A six-part sitcom where no milking parlour, cricket club AGM or public schoolboy's bedroom is off limits. Launching Mid-July 2019. I should subscribe me duck.
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7/18: FRONTIERS (Drama - Science fiction)
KIERAN MURPHY, a down on his luck army deserter from Earth’s “last great war,” gets a job working for a notorious, alien gangster; carries out a one-man vendetta against the cadre of sinister, Earth-controlling corporations that cost him his leg, his love and his freedom; and slowly discovers he is destined to destroy humanity.
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7/18: Happy Show Fantastic (Drama - Comedy)
Sibling rivalry is for chumps. Happy Show Fantastic is a scripted screwball musical soap opera detailing the true-ish story of two brothers bent on absolute mutual destruction. Jingly Award-winning singer Greg Lastrapes & billionaire podcasting celebrity Martin Lastrapes have a relationship so toxic, not even Taylor Swift would write a song about it.
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7/18: Quest of Heroes (Drama - Fantasy)
Danger. Magic. Impossible Quests. Mythical Creatures. The Land of Kallyria. Quest of Heroes is a fictional multiplayer online video game in which characters must band together against dangerous creatures, treacherous elements, former friends, and ultimately the seven kings and queens of Kalyria. The earth is dying. The seven virtue-based amulets that originally protected and prospered the seven regions of the land have all been lost, damaged, or twisted to dark purposes. Six heroes join forces to find, repair, and restore the seven amulets to their rightful places in order to save the land.
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7/19: Being Kenzie (Drama - Horror)
Feature length immersive horror podcast where you play the part of the blind protagonist - US pop star Kenzie Cortez is heading to England to make peace with her former musical partner Jo Yorke and faces unexpected and terrifying demons.
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7/19: Buying Ghosts (Drama - Horror)
Buying Ghosts is the story of Annie Seals and her family, who embark on a business venture of owning a Victorian Bed and Breakfast rumored to be haunted. Annie hopes to capitalize on the paranormal crowd looking for ghosts. Little did she know the rumors are real and now her family finds themselves trapped with the previous tenants.
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7/19: Wholesale Solution (Drama - Thriller)
Pilot episode of Universal Solution. “Clay Orts finds himself trapped in a dizzying and deadly set of realities as he battles to reach humanities only hope for survival, in a dystopian future. With only his AI for company, all Clay knows is that he must stay alive, and reach Europa, no matter the cost...”
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7/20: The Moonologue Sessions (Drama - Anthology)
A series of "moonologues", to celebrate the 50th anniversary of man's first visit to the moon.
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7/22: Arin Key and the Runaway Corpse (Drama - Urban fantasy)
Arin Key is dragged into a case for a magical talent of hers she wishes she didn't have. In a high stakes race to find the missing body of a multi-billionaire man, Arin finds herself running into criminals of all degrees of danger and infamy, including a woman from her past that she'd rather forget...
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7/23: Dinner for Ten (Drama - Horror)
A group of unknown strangers are invited as guests by a mysterious host to a manor. Each has their own speculation as to why they were invited, but are any of them correct? What will happen?
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7/24: Love Jumps (Drama - Romance)
Travelling through the story of Jeff and Dani, 'Love Jumps' arrives at different times in their relationship. From the first date to having children and during time apart; it's a comical exploration of the highs and lows of love, life and the in-betweens.
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7/25: Bandtastic (Drama - Musical)
Bandtastic is a sci-fi musical adventure about the most popular band in the universe. Assembled by a super intelligent spaceship, D.E.B.R.A. and not so intelligent robot sidekick R.A.N.D.Y., the intergalactic musicians travel to new worlds with one goal - to solve all of their problems through their incredible songs (byah byah byah!). The band consists of Seabass, a twelve-year-old boy from Earth who has the ability to make anything an instrument, Synthia, a synthetic singer with a glitch giving her the ability to feel emotions, DJ Yeah!, a dinosaur DJ with a one-word vocabulary, and Threesa, a three-headed sage with mind-blowing harmonies. Each episode presents a new challenge for the band. Whether it's teaching joy to a planet full of haterz and trollz or bringing music to a space station full of aliens who don’t have ears, they always find that if they work together, they can solve any problem out there.
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7/25: C.H.V.L.K. (Drama - Thriller)
A Cyberpunk Noir Thriller set in an alt history after a cataclysmic event swallows the sun whole. Now, enemies must band together and save humanity from a dystopian nightmare, if they don’t kill each other first.
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7/25: Crime and Punsishment (Drama - Comedy)
There are a lot of true crime podcasts out there covering criminals of all sorts; however, very few of those serial killer podcasts are very funny. Every week Tyler Gooch brings you a new, bite-sized, fake crime tale featuring some of the most notorious fake criminals Tyler could think up. Sometimes fiction is funnier than the truth.
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7/25: Once It's Begun (Drama - Post-apocalypse)
In a gun-slinging, post apocalyptic future, a young man is forced to and set out across the southern wastes to understand his father's betrayal and fulfil his sacred duty to protect the mysterious Charge.
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7/26: A Day in the Life (Fiction - Science fiction)
A day in the Life of an average person in the 6th world. The day corporations, shadowrunners or both ruin a normal persons life.
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7/26: DaemoniK (Drama - Urban fantasy)
An audio/visual drama about angels, demons, and the humans involved.
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7/28: Simulacrum (RPG - Actual play)
Simulacrum is a sci-fi fantasy show in which the players try to survive in “the world’s first virtual tabletop rpg” Numenera : The Ninth World. What would you do if you couldn’t leave your favorite game?
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7/28: The Land of Sir Renity (Drama - Fantasy)
A comedy fantasy tale.
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7/29: Neon Heat (RPG - Actual play)
A Savage Worlds realplay duet in our custom cyber-fantasy setting. Athena returns to her hometown to root out a conspiracy at the heart of the city.
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7/29: TCOIP (Drama - Science fiction)
A sci-fi, cyberpunk, story driven podcast. TCOIP follows an alternate timeline in which a Global mutant pandemic changes the course of history in the year 2012. We now follow the citizens living in the aftermath of the new world in present day 2039. Follow the first generation to have been born in this new world. These are The Children Of Industria Prime.
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7/30: I Was (Drama - Real life)
After giving into intense family pressures, Tariq Donato leaves home for the first time. He moves to a remote town for a full-time job at a radio station. Finally, Tariq feels liberated, free to move forward with his life.
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7/31: Electic Full Contact Theatre's Throwing Shade (Drama - Comedy)
Chicago, 1934 In a city rife with crime and corruption, a hero emerges. The Shade, who rushes in where fools fear to tread...with predictable results. Luckily for Chicago, there’s the Vamp, female crimefighter replete with all the skill and talent the Shade lacks. Can the Shade save Chicago from crime? Can the Vamp save The Shade from himself? Eclectic Full Contact Theatre presents Throwing Shade, the 1930’s radio satire you’ve been dying for.
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7/31: Pink Mohawk Edition (RPG - Actual play)
We are a Shadowrun Anarchy actual play podcast set in Missoula, Montana, where city meets wilderness. Wild Rill, Sergeant Butch, Deadeye, and Rook are a crew of shadowrunners who are guaranteed to get the job done--and with as much style as possible.
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7/31: The Chronicles of a Timelord (Drama - Fanfiction)
It is the mid 1970s and the UNIT annual Christmas party is in full swing Corporals Maisie Hawk and Carol Bell are coming to the end of their shift when an unidentified craft appears on their radar. The Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and the Brigadier all rush to the crash site where the Doctors worst fears are met when he realises that the unidentified craft is in fact a TARDIS escape pod containing The Master.
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