Every month, there are a large number of new audio drama and fiction podcasts released. These monthly lists collate everything I can find that has released an Ep1 in its dedicated fiction RSS feed for the relevant month. Feel free to shout in the comments if you've got more information or corrections and I'll update with anything I'm missing.
And tell me which ones I should be listening to. What have you enjoyed this month?
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12/1: Eternal Code of the Galaxy
Dramatised - Science fiction
The Eternal Code of the Galaxy is a short audio drama podcast with voiceover actors from the Chicago area. A mysterious signal from deep space has puzzled scientists for hundreds of years but now a captain with nothing to lose and two A.I. have a plan to seek out the code source even if it takes hundreds of years to uncover the truth.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/1: Long Time No See
Dramatised - Slice of life
An original musical drama in five episodes. Written and acted by a cast of NYC teenagers based on the stories of their lives and experiences. Listen to the voice of today's young people as they confront the real-life issues youth face and strive to change our complicated and unjust world. For more information and credits, visit www.the-possibility-project.org.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
Framing Device: Musical
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/1: Tales of Ezmeer
Dramatised - Fantasy
Tales of Ezmeer is a full-cast, audio drama podcast in the genre of epic fantasy. Perfect for family listening - rated PG for some scary situations.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/2: Redwood Bureau
Fiction - Horror
Josh Tomar is Agent Conroy, a former operative on the run from a dangerous, secret organization called Redwood Bureau. The Bureau researches and captures supernatural entities usually at the cost of human lives, and Agent Conroy is here to leak their reports to the public.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Anthology
Framing Device: Journal/Log
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/3: Nights of Darkness
RPG - Horror
Welcome to Nights of Darkness! Join us in our live play World of Darkness Podcast. So many amazing stories to share.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: Vampire: The Masquerade
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/3: Roll Models D&D
RPG - Fantasy
Roll Models is an actual play D&D podcast. We are a group of old friends who come together to play dungeons & dragons, roll dice and make bad choices. Join us in the original world of Descordia & follow our characters adventures each week!
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/3: The Kringles
Dramatised - Comedy
kJ Kringle leaves the North Pole and shows up on the doorstep of relatives in... the South Pole. From JLJ media , a spin-off from Claus The Series. Meet The Kringles. Santas very younger brother Keith Kringle and family who don’t get any attention from the world. Until KJ shows up !
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/4: Dragon Shanty
Dramatised - Fantasy
Two lighthouse keepers unravel their long history of taming magic, dragons, and sails through a series of nightly bedtime stories.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/6: A Christmas Carol
Dramatised - Adaptation
What would it take for you to change? Loneliness? Regret? Being haunted by your dead friend's ghost on Christmas Eve??? Join the dynamic three-person cast of Fergie Philippe, Ashley Winkfield, and Madeleine Dauer as they explore Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from miserly misanthrope to an upstanding friend in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Professional theater company Shake on the Lake presents the haunted holiday classic as a one-episode podcast play, appropriate for all ages.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Standalone
Universe: Dickens
RSS Feed
12/6: Ghostwriter
Dramatised - Thriller + Psychological
In this C13Features podcast movie presentation of Ghostwriter, Kate Mara and Adam Scott star in a psychological thriller about a former journalist who reluctantly accepts a job ghostwriting a new murder mystery novel for an eccentric billionaire. As they collaborate on the project, questions - and suspicions - begin to arise. Grab some popcorn, and get lost in your imagination in this gripping and suspenseful podcast movie experience, Ghostwriter, from C13Features.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Standalone
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/6: The Aberrant Ziggurat
Dramatised - Multigenre
A short podcast of various short stories written and performed by Josh Belville, inspired by prompts from you! Season 1 was released in 2015 using the Audio post feature on Tumblr. Season 2 is coming in May 2, 2022. Want to submit an idea? Write something short into the Vault of Thoughts. It's anonymous and some will be chosen for new podcast episodes!
Voices: Single
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/7: The Prophecy Tango
RPG - Fantasy, Adventure
The Prophecy Tango is a DnD 5e actual play podcast set in Eberron, featuring high-level play, swashbuckling action, pulp horror, and exotic adventures.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
Audience: Mature/Explicit
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/8: Nature of My Game
RPG - Crime + Mystery
Nature of My Game is a story-focused actual play podcast of investigation, strangeness, and fear.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: Multiple
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/9: Burnt Cook Book Party
RPG - Fantasy, Comedy
A real play show featuring an original campaign, based on Pathfinder, where four heroes of varying skills, attractiveness, and stupidity, race against time to prevent a war.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
Audience: All audience
RPG System: Pathfinder
Creators: Female, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergent
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/9: Immersive Experiences for One
Dramatised - Multigenre
These immersive audio experiences take you on short journeys into magical, terrifying and sometimes absurd worlds. These experiences can be done anywhere you happen to be, thought we recommend quiet spaces where you can be alone for the duration.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/9: Lads on Tour
RPG - Fantasy
A D&D podcast about a stag do at the end of the world.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/9: The Familiars
RPG - Fantasy
In the darkest days of 2020, two friends were visited by an idea: get a bunch of unemployed actors together and play DnD. And so The Familiars were born. The Familiars is for DnD pros and newbs alike.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/11: Nawi Of The Lightning Tribe
Dramatised - Fantasy
SERIES OVERVIEW: Eric tells the story of his childhood best friend Nawi, the half human 14 year old daughter of a warrior super being, who fought a God in order to protect the world, and the power of creation itself.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/12: The Semi-Adventures of Sheila
Dramatised - Comedy
The Semi-adventures of Sheila is a five-part humorous and nonsensical audio-drama for kids about a 9 year old restless rockhound named Sheila. Join her on her quest to find rocks and herself!
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
Audience: Children
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/12: The Transposition of Chloë Brontë
Dramatised - Science fiction, Romance
Chloë and Max’s relationship is strained when they move in together and Chloë’s sleep paralysis appears to open a portal to another dimension. A low-fi sci-fi (sorta) rom-com audio drama.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
Audience: Young adult
Transcripts: Show notes
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/13: Budgens and Dragons
RPG - Comedy
An unfair, actual play podcast with a very simple premise - buy a scratch card for Mother! The catch is, everything can - and WILL - kill you.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/13: Crystal Blue
Dramatised - Science fiction
Crystal Blue is a sci-fi audio drama about fifteen military outcasts that evade dishonorable discharge and are instead sent to a remote grouping of planets known as the Theras. Thera II houses the base known as Crystal Blue, where each member is forced to work a specific job such as building air purifier towers, maintaining the base, or monitoring space travel. It's a boring job, but someone as to do it. But things get crazy when a mysterious shuttle crash lands on the planet, holding some secret information about an alien race. An alien race that has not been in contact with humans for centuries. What could this mean for the members of Crystal Blue?! Listen and find out!!
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/13: Joel B. New's "Undertaking Christmas"
Dramatised - Romance, Comedy
After his perfectly planned life falls apart in New York City, party planner Nick Holliday returns to his quaint hometown of Sadness, Indiana, to save a family funeral home from going six feet under right before Christmas. Hailed as one of the “best Christmas shows this holiday season” by TimeOut New York and starring Broadway's Todd Buonopane (Cinderella) and Joel B. New (Monkey Trouble Unleashed!), this brand new musical podcast production of UNDERTAKING CHRISTMAS will make Broadway and Hallmark movie fans alike feel cozy, nostalgic, and super gay, all at once. UNDERTAKING CHRISTMAS is a loving send-up of the Hallmark Channel Original Holiday Movie genre, except deliberately daffy in its use of tropes and centering around a same-sex love story. The musical’s score includes songs destined to become tomorrow’s holiday hits, like "All I Want For Christmas Is A Boyfriend For My Dad," "Christmas Happens," and "Death and Taxes and Christmas and You."
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
Framing Device: Musical
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/13: Lost in Forever
Dramatised - Science fiction, Horror
This is about Scp-3008, a personal favorite, heavily inspired by the "Find us alive" and Magnus archives Podcasts.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Serial
Framing Device: Journal/Log
Universe: SCP
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/13: Magmell
Dramatised - Science fiction, Horror
Stranded 700 light years away from home, the crew of the USS Magmell make an astonishing discovery; they’re not alone. Not only is something sinister is lurking in the deep reaches of space, but they are also remembering things that never happened, things that couldn't have happened. With tensions running high and mistrust running deep, they realize that their only chance of survival is each other...whether they like it or not.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/13: Murders, Mysteries, and More
Fiction - Multigenre
A weekly podcast featuring short stories by undiscovered authors. We feature mysteries, comedy, light-hearted, who-done-its, paranormal and more. These authors and stories are showcased here in the hopes of entertaining you.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/13: Wretched City Radio
Dramatised - Experimental + Surreal
A sepia sunset expands over the horizon. A town stuck in shades of greyscale. A brown light everybody sees and yet no-one acknowledges – a surreal film-noir horribly aware of its own existence as a film-noir - a radio show host overwhelmed with existential nonchalance. Listen to how this fictional Wretched City reacts to an ever-changing, ever-expanding America, both inside of its reach and outside of it… The citizens respond through their sensuous worldviews, through their corruption, through their paradoxical freedom, through their strange religions. James Harlot speaks from his lonely red microphone inside his booth – inside an ephemeral, cyclical city, tangible in its laws of reality and yet unlikely. You drive in at dusk, unsure of how you got here, overwhelmed by the red, cloudless sky. As the static clears you hear the station, you hear the strange greeting - Welcome to Wretched City Radio – 606Fm, the official radio of the capital city of Greater Amsterdam. A missing State… But can something be missing if it never was? The show features experimental production and mixing - as well as unusual integration of sound design and effects alongside original music. Our host, James Harlot, will have various guests joining - stay tuned!
Voices: Single
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/14: THE REFLECTION: An Audio Drama
- Slice of life
Original audio drama about a teenager named Rue who has a hard time relating to her mom and escapes into her podcast, ”Cue The Mic”.
Continuity: Serial
Framing Device: In-universe show
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/15: Cascadia
Dramatised - Horror, Science fiction
10 years after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami devastates the Pacific Northwest, a new ocean floor reveals itself along the infamous Casacadia Subduction Zone. When philanthropic billionaire, Wesley Badger falls unfit to go on a deep sea expedition to explore the new area, rookie captain, Declan Walters must step up and pilot The Alexandria Submarine through the uncharted Pacific abyss. Fellow crewmembers are reluctant to trust their new captain, especially after a routine dive does not go according to plan... As the crew adventure into unknown waters, discoveries will be made and hearts will be broken in an underwater odyssey that will leave you breathless and blindsided. From beginning to surface.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/15: Droughtland
RPG - Western, Science fiction
Droughtland is an actual-play podcast set in a barren land roamed by zeppelins and railroads, and populated by raiders, dinosaurs, and voodoo.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: Unisystem
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/15: Thez Werdz
Dramatised - Multigenre
Thez Werdz Podcast is dedicated to storytelling.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/16: Spark Sputter & Die
Fiction - Multigenre
Spark Sputter and Die is serializing K Hank Jost's forthcoming short story collection, 'Deselections.' Each story is presented as a full-fledged radio play with voice actors, score, and narration. In conjunction with guest composers, producer Andrew Links brings the stories to life with full-length scores. Spark Sputter and Die is a collective bringing together collaborators from all disciplines in the NYC area--filmmakers, painters, actors, poets, and musicians. Interspersed between episodes of 'Deselections' will be interviews with collaborators about their individual crafts and experiences of their lives as artists.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/17: Brontë
Dramatised - Crime + Mystery
On the night of his execution, one of the most notorious serial killers in United States history is presented with the opportunity to give one final interview on live television. How did a gentle Arizona boy come to be a broken man on Death Row?
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
Framing Device: In-universe show
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/17: The Christmas Stories
Fiction - Fantasy
Christmas is around the corner and the cold wind is already blowing! To keep you warm, Chimes Radio brings a special collection of short, feel-good stories by our amazing team. These Christmas stories are for everyone who is looking for some holiday cheer, especially at this time of the year. So wrap yourself up, snuggle up with your loved ones, pour in some hot chocolate and enjoy these heartwarming stories of Santa Claus, elves, reindeers and small boys and girls. These amazing Christmas stories will make you believe in magic all over again. A new story will be released (5 in all) every alternate day in the run-up to Christmas with the final story in Season 1 going live on the 24th of December.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Anthology
Audience: Children
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/17: The PodCast
Dramatised - Multigenre
Short radio plays devised and recorded by members of Pod Youth Theatre, Virginia, County Cavan.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/18: A Dose of Meds Presents
Dramatised - Soap opera, Thriller + Psychological
A combination of telenovela and thriller; the creative writing work of Katie Azucena Medrano-Escobar.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/19: Lore By Night Productions
RPG - Multigenre
From the creator of the critically acclaimed World of Darkness lore podcast "Lore By Night" brings you actual plays in the form of "Lore By Night Productions". Together, alongside a culturally diverse & queer cast, Lore By Night Productions aims to bring fun actual plays varying in mood, tone and wholesome chillaxed fun, with none of the pretentious professional bullocks. Such games include, but are not limited to; Vampire: The Masquerade Changeling: The Lost Werewolf: The Apocalypse Wraith: The Oblivion Call of Cthulhu The Warren These actual plays contain themes of dark personal horror, excessively bad language and violence throughout the various actual plays. Listener discretion is advised.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Oneshots
RPG System: Multiple
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/20: Dice Comics
RPG - Superhero
Dice Comics is a superhero actual play podcast featuring Magpie Games' Masks: A New Generation. Set in Patch City, created when the supervillain Brainiac was thwarted from archiving the universe, a group of teens and young adults investigate a mysterious threat to their home. But how are you supposed to save the city when you're not sure where you fit into it? Join Kathy, Morgan, Brandon, Matt, Broden and Indi as they stumble around their fanmade DC Universe, inspired by comics and adaptations reknowned and obscure, and their own experiences facing the transition from teen to young adult.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
Audience: Young adult
RPG System: Masks: A New Generation
Universe: DC
Creators: BAME/BIMPOC, Disabled, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergent
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/20: Forged Among Stars: An Actual Play RPG Podcast
RPG - Science fiction
A solo play-through of Ironsworn: Starforged, science fiction tabletop RPG. Follow the adventures of Hawking Duval, a diplomat turned tomb raider, as he seeks to write his destiny among the stars.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: Ironsworn
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/20: I've always wanted to write a book
Fiction - Multigenre
I've always wanted to write a book. But the truth is, I'm not a very good writer. Okay I lied, I'm a terrible writer! So instead of letting the stories go to waste I thought why not tell them into microphone while I sit comfortably in a dark room. This podcast is extremely entertaining so why not laugh, cry & everything in-between with the I've always wanted to write a book podcast.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/20: Last Known Position
Dramatised - Thriller + Psychological, Horror
A new mystery thriller from the makers of Blackout and The Left Right Game, Last Known Position follows a group of experts including submersible pilot Mikaela Soto (Gina Rodriguez) as they 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.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/22: Temp Girl
Fiction - Crime + Mystery, Romance
In the romantic comedy mystery TEMP GIRL, a spoiled sales dynamo is forced to take a job with a temp agency to get by, and falls headlong into reality—and murder!
Voices: Single
Continuity: Serial
Audience: All audience
Transcripts: https://stephaniebond.com/serial/temp-girl/
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/23: Dear Helen, Love Jane
Dramatised - Adaptation, Thriller + Psychological
A modernized Jane Eyre must work through her harrowing past via phone calls to her best friend, detailing events in her life including budding feelings for her enigmatic employer and the haunting of a dark presence.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
Universe: Jane Eyre
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/24: Charisma Saving Show
RPG - Fantasy
Come aboard our ship as we set sail to explore the world of Ohmvelia in this Dungeon & Dragons actual-play, seafaring campaign. What tales await our chaotic party?
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/24: Tales
Fiction - Multigenre
Tales is a podcast that brings you short stories from varies authors.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/25: Dungeon Mystery Theater
RPG - Fantasy
Let the Dungeons and the Dragons begin. It’s D&D Fighting with the legends of yore.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/25: Radio Play Revival
Dramatised - Multigenre
Radio Play Revival features great American actors performing great American works of literature. Performed by both established and new-and-emerging performers, musicians, and writers, Radio Play Revival pays homage to the golden age of radio, in the now-second golden age of audio.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/25: Welvyn Z Porter
Dramatised - Multigenre
Just a guy creating weekly horror, thriller, and sometimes sci-fi audio dramas and audiobooks. Loosely based on the parapsychological investigations of The Blackridge Society.A word from The Blackridge Society: “For the first time since its creation in 1852, the Blackridge Society presents a collection of cases declassified for public viewing. These strange and esoteric happenings have been investigated to the Society’s fullest capabilities and deemed safe for civilian disclosure.”
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Anthology
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/27: The Heart Pyre
Fiction - Fantasy, Adventure, Steampunk
The Heart Pyre is a community-driven choose-your-own-adventure narrative podcast about mysterious fires, corruption and long forgotten Gods.
Voices: Single
Continuity: Serial
Audience: Young adult
Interactivity: Voting
Creators: LGBTQ+
Focus: Female, LGBTQ+
Transcripts: Website
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/28: The Secret of St Kilda
Dramatised - Horror
In this supernatural thriller series, listeners will follow Lockie, a charismatic con man who escapes to St Kilda with the promise that this time he’ll change his ways. Unfortunately the island and it’s unusual inhabitants have other ideas. He seeks redemption and they seek a saviour, but you know what they say - no change without sacrifice.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/31: Critical FAIL
RPG - Fantasy
Critical Fail is a D&D podcast set in a long-ago world, where monsters still existed and there was no legal drinking age. Played by three nerdy friends and their crazy DM in a game room sitting over a garage, this podcast is roleplaying, cool monsters, creative tavern names, and nonsense all packed into one-hour episodes. So what are you waiting for? Adventure Awaits!
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: D&D
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/31: The Adventures of Captain Radio
Dramatised - Science fiction
Set in the distant future, Captain Radio and the Mutant Mole People from the Eleventh Dimension follows the daring adventures of Captain Radio as he fights the sinister Doctor Orban to save the galaxy.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/31: The Cromwell Chronicles
RPG - Urban fantasy
Enter The Cromwell Chronicles: a world of rain, pine trees, and magic. It is a story where a rejection from your crush is just as important as a power-hungry demon. This is a show born from a love of the Pacific Northwest and melodramatic teen dramas, and the desire to tell the stories that don’t often get told in popular media. Through the messy metaphor of monsterhood, our young adults explore themes of identity and community. Maybe along the way, we'll find the magic within ourselves.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Longform
RPG System: Monsterhearts
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
12/31: The Silver Bloodline
Dramatised - Occult + Supernatural, Horror
A small village is beset by a supernatural forest that seemingly melts all those that enter. With the help of a lone scientist, a twelve-year-old Raya must face off against unimaginable terror as it becomes clear that the mystery is only just beginning.
Voices: Cast
Continuity: Serial
RSS Feed Ep 1 link
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