A new priest, one confession at a time.
Forgive Me! is scripted fiction built on confession: Father Ben, a young priest trying a little too hard, hears one eccentric parishioner after another at St. Patrick's in a made-up Texarkana, NY. The feed also carries trailers for other audio dramas from the Fable & Folly Network.
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Forgive Me! is scripted audio fiction built around the confessional. Father Ben is the priest listening there. He is young, Catholic, and trying a little too hard. He has been moved from Binghamton to St. Patrick's, a parish in a fictional Texarkana, NY, and the reasons for the move are kept murky. That leaves him new in town, in a job where people come to him to tell him things. Each parishioner who steps in is another eccentric local. Their lives are tangled together, so the town comes into focus one admission at a time. The show is filed under comedy drama, and the premise covers both halves: funny moments, sad ones, and some that are plainly painful, all rooted in Catholic life. It is a format built for character studies. Forgive Me! belongs to the Fable & Folly Network, whose on-air slogan is about fiction producers flourishing. Recent entries in the feed include several episodes labelled 'Presenting', each one a trailer for another show rather than a new confession. 'Presenting: UN-TITLED' introduces a scripted comedy that retells the sword-in-the-stone myth from the view of the people left standing around while it happens, and its clip features a squire who says he dabbles in acting. 'Presenting: Re:Dracula' pitches a full-cast, text-accurate adaptation of Dracula that publishes episodes as close to real time as the story's events allow. 'Presenting: Not Quite Dead' promotes a mostly single-narrator horror romance about walking corpses, vampires and the pull between Alfie and Casper, with an excerpt set in an A&E department at York Hospital. 'Presenting: Remnants' comes from Hanging Sloth Productions: an apprentice, supervised by a figure called Sir, reads the life stories held in ordinary objects like a broken pocket watch or a silk scarf, then has to decide whether to shelve or discard them. 'Presenting: Moonburn', from August Year Round Productions, sets up an 18-year-old named Lucas moving into a New York City boarding home, where he finds diary cassette tapes left decades earlier by a former occupant, Carter. There is also an episode titled 'Forgive Apollyon! A Crossover'. Taken together, the trailers make the feed a sampler of audio fiction, from horror romance to young adult slice-of-life. Anyone who came for Father Ben should know those trailers are not part of his story. What sets Forgive Me! apart is its narrow frame: one priest, one confessional, one town, and a steady line of people with something to admit.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys scripted audio fiction built from character sketches, and who likes comedy that can turn sad or painful, especially around faith and Catholic parish life.
What sets it apart: Instead of following a single plot line, it uses the confessional as a revolving door: each parishioner is a new voice, and the connections between them surface through what they admit to a newly arrived priest.
Forgive Me! tells the story of Father Ben, a try-hard young Catholic priest who was recently reassigned from Binghamton to St. Patrick’s, a new parish in the fictional Texarkana, NY, under mysterious circumstances. Each episode follows Ben into the confessional with another eccentric parishioner from around town, exploring the intertwined lives of this new community and the funny, sad, and sometimes painful experiences that come out of the Catholic experience.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A borrowed dragon costume, a wooden sword, and a squire's shaky reach for heroic relevance.
Presenting: UN-TITLED turns a rescue story into a comic scramble for relevance. Phelan the Squire shows up with a wooden sword, a borrowed dragon costume, and a plan that keeps running into hunger, theatrical ego, and the messy work of building a legend from the edge of the…
A night coach ride becomes a full-cast descent into gathering dread.
Presenting: Re:Dracula sends a traveler into an uneasy night ride under the count's instructions, where the road feels less like a route than a trap.
An intimate horror romance where an obituary, a hospital shift, and measured blood point Alfie toward transformation.
Presenting: Not Quite Dead begins with Alfie trying to write his own obituary, a bleak assignment made awkward enough to keep the horror close to the skin.
A dark fantasy thriller turns ordinary objects into intimate moral tests for an apprentice still learning the cost.
Remnants builds a dark fantasy thriller around a simple, resonant hook: a mysterious apprentice can read the lives held inside ordinary objects.
A queer coming-of-age welcome turns uncanny when Lucas's new room becomes the route to a boarding home's roof.
Moonburn opens as a young adult queer slice-of-life story about Lucas, an 18-year-old trying to begin again in a New York City boarding home. His new room comes with more baggage than expected: after an awkward, bloodied first meeting with Caleb, he finds out the housemates pass…
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Marcus Aurelius turns up as a prop in a sword-in-the-stone farce about a middle-aged squire.
Fable & Folly Network presents Re:Dracula as a "text-accurate adaptation" of Bram Stoker's Dracula, released chronologically and "as close to real time as possible." The episode features Ben Galpin as Jonathan Harker, Karim Kronfli as Dracula, and Steven Andresano directing, with sound design by Tal Maneer.
Not Quite Dead's pilot, Presenting: Not Quite Dead, follows Alfie, an A&E nurse in York, as he explains a night that starts with torn throats and ends with a blood supply running low.
Celine says, "Reality is all about believing" after explaining why her clients think Monet and Renoir are real.
Carter says, "after this one year, these recordings will be all that's left of me."
In this Forgive Me and Windfall crossover, Father Ben hears Captain Octavius Root explain how he helped frame his father for rebuilding a shrine to Medina.
In How I Died, coroner John Spacer hears Maggie Lane speak during her autopsy in Springfield.
A fictional podcast following a young priest as he hears confessions from eccentric parishioners, blending humor and heartfelt moments.
A priest visits his mother for Thanksgiving dinner, leading to family tension and a discussion about his brother's absence.
Father Ben awkwardly begins his first confession session with a new parishioner, revealing the show's comedic and dramatic take on Catholic life.