James Newberry
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Bringing you the best of original and adapted English language drama, literature, autobiography, and poetry - classical and modern - from talented independent writers and producers.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Distinct casts and dialogue-led productions carry the show from comic criminal mishaps to romance, war, and tightly staged domestic upheaval.
The Audio Drama Show gives each production room to establish its own cast, setting, and dramatic register. Its anthology format moves from the comic criminal trouble of Jimmy McIver's dry-cleaning venture in Crudely, Badly, Cheaply to the more intimate, fable-like exchanges…
A loan shark visits the dry cleaner's, and you can hear the small talk sweating.
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A fractured reading in which the Sibyl, the Thames, and repeated falling shape Eliot's unsettled audio landscape.
The Waste Land makes Eliot's fractured poem feel like a passage through desire, temptation, surrender, memory, and death. It begins with the Sibyl in her cage at Kumai, passes through Marie's memory of the Starnberger See and a frightening sled ride, then turns to the question…
A fogbound Swordfish flight finds dry comedy at the edge of an emergency landing.
A wartime memoir turns into an airborne survival piece as a Fleet Air Arm observer and Hank, his pilot, press on through fog and haze in an old Swordfish.
A family legacy reaches its sickbed reckoning, then passes into gentler hands through Master Jemmy.
A legacy story becomes a sickbed reckoning as Mrs. Liripa recognizes Mr. Edson as Jemmy's father, the man who deserted the boy's mother and left Jemmy in her care.
Pub banter, betting debt, and Fred's warnings give this character first audio drama its slow burn pressure.
Crudely, Badly, Cheaply Part 1 stays in the Dog and Duck, and that choice does real work. The pub is not just a backdrop. It is the social center, the dining room, the office, and the place where romance, business, and betting trouble all spill into one another.
A country courtship collapses into a family reckoning with Hardy's dry, punishing clarity.
Thomas Hardy's story turns a marriage proposal into a household reckoning. Charles Darton asks Sally Hall to marry him, Sally refuses outright, and the scene tightens when Philip comes in worn out, thirsty, and carrying news that he has a wife and two children hidden in the…
Dry-cleaning ambition, loan-shark pressure, and a very British sense of trouble.
Jimmy McIver is still trying to keep the dry-cleaning venture afloat, and the episode finds its best comic edge in how fast ordinary business talk turns into pressure. The bargaining is awkward in a good way, and the clipped back-and-forth gives each polite line a little menace.
A tense, voice-led fable where desire, money, and survival keep colliding.
The Falcon centers on a bruised exchange between Alphonse and Jimena, where flirtation keeps tipping into confession and threat. Biblical imagery, battle memory, and talk of money all land in the same room, and the episode uses that pressure to ask who gets to be wanted, and who…
Classic clues, quick deaths, sharper deductions.
A mother opens with a warning.
The narrator encounters Dr.
Jimmy gets his business open.
The Dog and Duck is Jimmy's kingdom.
In Part 1 of Thomas Hardy's 'Interlopers,' farmer Charles Darton proposes to Sally Hall, but her brother Philip unexpectedly returns from Australia with a destitute wife, Helena, and children.
Love starts badly here.
The Audio Drama Show presents T.
The Audio Drama Show episode "Cottoning On - The War Years" adapts Geoffrey Banks’ memoir chapter about a 1944 Fleet Air Arm flight from the Mack ship McColl, 275 miles west of Ireland, in a Swordfish biplane with pilot Hank Coates, rear gunner Taff Roach, and observer Monty Banks.
Charles Dickens's "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy Part 3" follows Mrs.