A lighthouse story for people between homes.
The Far Meridian follows Perry and the Lighthouse through shifting places, old wounds, and impossible geography. Its strongest scenes are intimate: voicemails, phone calls, apologies, and supernatural encounters where finding a star can feel like finding a self.
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The Far Meridian is a serialized fiction podcast about Perry, a young woman whose home is a lighthouse that keeps appearing in different places. The premise is strange and beautiful. What gives the show its shape, though, is not only the moving house, but the people Perry misses, finds, avoids, and learns how to speak to again. Recent episodes linger on phone calls with Ruth, voicemails full of hesitation, and the difficult work of naming feelings without forcing them into neat answers. Perry is searching for Ace. She is also carrying the history of Benny, whose letters hold adventure and kindness alongside the pain of his leaving. The show understands that absence changes depending on who is gone and how they left. Its fantasy elements are intimate rather than ornamental. Stars can be removed and returned. Memories can be constructed in a room with chalk and breath. A tattered woman can make help feel like danger. The Lighthouse moves through fog, hills, deserts, towns, and emotionally loaded reunions, while Perry keeps trying to understand where she belongs. Ruth brings warmth, directness, and unfinished history into that journey. Their conversations are careful and charged, full of apologies that cannot fix everything but still matter. The drama often moves quietly, then opens into something larger and more uncanny. It favors tenderness over spectacle. Even live-show and network announcements preserve the sense of a close creative world built by actors, sound designers, directors, and musicians. The result is a soft-edged, supernatural road story about anxiety, connection, longing, and the courage it takes to let someone help. It is for listeners who like mystery with emotional patience. It is also for anyone who hears a voicemail and knows the real story is in what the speaker almost says.
Made for: Best for listeners who want serialized audio drama with emotional stakes, gentle supernatural mystery, and character scenes built from longing, apology, memory, and distance.
What sets it apart: The show turns a high-concept moving lighthouse into a deeply personal map of relationships. Its most memorable tension comes from quiet conversations where fantasy and vulnerability meet.
Peri is an agoraphobic young woman whose home starts to show up in a new location every day, as she searches for her missing brother.
A spell goes sideways, a ghost turns up, and suddenly your emotional avoidance has stage lights.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A live-show special that blends stage energy with intimate, reflective writing.
Special: Off-Book gathers The Far Meridian into a live night at Dixon Place in New York City at the start of April, alongside Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magic Services, Yanis Descending, and Gal Pal's present Overkill.
A tender, uneasy story that keeps affection and dread in the same room.
The episode settles into a strange tenderness, letting a first meeting turn uncanny almost at once and keeping affection and unease in close company.
A relaxed family day where small jokes, rituals, and Ace's absence all land together.
Perry, his parents, and Tomas spend a day that moves from costumes and games to food and a walkie-talkie, and the loose talk gives the scene its shape.
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
This is a short announcement episode from The Far Meridian in which creator Eli Barasa confirms the show will return for a third and final season.
Ruth and Peri connect by phone after exchanging emotionally weighted voicemails, navigating the awkwardness of wanting to be close without feeling obligated to share everything.
This is a live recording of four audio fiction podcasts — The Far Meridian, Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magic Services, Yanis Descending, and Gal Pals Present Overkill — performed at Dixon Place in New York City in April 2019 as part of the Once Upon a Podcast showcase.
Perry bargains with Hesperia to protect Ruth while learning that returning stars is harder than taking them.
Ruth says “someone’s been taking” the stars and she’s “trying to find a way to put them back.”
Perry and Benny follow a funeral procession into the Ars Memoriae Foundation, a facility that reconstructs memories as semi-physical manifestations for the grieving.
Perry attends a local festival with her parents and sibling Tomas, during which her father opens up about the years of family silence that followed her mother Monica's PTSD diagnosis.