Alpha 8 is a sci-fi adventure podcast that explores what happens when a desperate alien from another planet swaps places with a struggling mom to understand the meaning of family to save her kind from extinction.

This family-friendly scripted series draws from science-fiction adventures like Starman, fish-out-of-water stories like The Princess Diaries, and body-swap comedies like Freaky Friday.

This is the last script written by our cast member, Don Foote, who passed away in February, 2023. It is a hopeful story of eternity and rebirth, reminiscent of what Shakespeare wrote in “Hamlet:”

To die, to sleep, perchance to dream –
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause…

Joe is not a nice person. Not at all. He has treated the most important people in his life very, very shabbily. In fact, you might say he has a criminal intensity that he uses to get all that he wants, whenever he wants. But now, when he is clearing out his grandmother’s house in order to sell it (against her dying wish), he finds karma.

This entry is from the series SAFETY IN THE FIELD, an audio project inspired by educational audio-visual material: training films, filmstrips, foreign-language instruction records.

When the tranquility of the small town of Monroville is suddenly shattered one morning by a mysterious earthquake, Sheriff Buckley and Deputy Fish head out to investigate. What they discover lurking among the ruins will soon threaten not only the lives of all in Monroville, but also the lives of those in the cities beyond. Trapped in the local library by forces they don’t understand, will Sheriff Buckley and a small group of civilians be able to decipher the mystery of what’s happening and escape the clutches of the dead or will the library become their tomb?

Affluence and privilege are on the opposite end of the spectrum from poverty and destitution. And they seldom meet. But when Paul, an affluent attorney, meets Bill and Deena, two homeless people, the span of the spectrum shrinks. In this story, we find out that it is not always clear where true wealth lies on the spectrum between poverty and affluence.

Blake Wayman was a cop until a criminal syndicate had Blake and his wife killed... there's only one problem: Blake didn't stay dead. Now Wayman is a wheelchair bound P.I. with a gift. He can walk the streets of Underworld City, a purgatory on the banks of the River Styx, run by the mysterious Boatman, teeming with lost souls, spiritual forces, and long dead gangsters. There Wayman searches for his lost love and solves crimes no one else can, bringing justice from beyond the grave…

Tales of Terror represents Prometheus Theatre of the Air’s 10th anniversary as a radio theater company. The show comprises adaptations of classic horror stories begun by a core member of the company who died in 2021, completed by Prometheus director Mark Lowe.

The Call of the Flame is a high fantasy series inspired by The Lord of the Rings and the audio series We're Alive: A Story of Survival. While working in the tedium of retail, Kurt listened to audio lectures on mythology, history, NPR's Star Wars radio play, and the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks read by the late Roy Dotrice, with music scores by Howard Shore and Ramin Djawadi. All those things put together seeded a specific feel that he wanted to recreate for The Call of the Flame.

The series tackles themes like consequences, oppression, patriarchy, and finding balance within oneself. Centered on Bri--a barmaid and daughter of a God slaying folk-hero as she discovers an onset of powers thought to be exclusive to the God her father had slain years ago.

When the calls to her late-night, paranormal radio show go from strange to stranger, host Lindsay Mallyn launches an investigative podcast to explore the mysterious happenings. Unable to do it alone, however, she recruits the infamous JP Leck, a disgraced archivist and the keeper of curious lore. Together they will uncover terrible secrets, delve into forbidden realms, and do battle with otherworldly creatures.

A fun anarchic, silly telling of a Christmas Carol in the style of The Goon Show and Monty Python. With my background writing and performing sketch comedy, I assembled the players and performed it with them via zoom.

Things look brighter for down-on-his-luck country western singer Clay McGruder when a vet appears to take his loyal but injured dog to his vet clinic. The celebration of successful surgery is interrupted when local business bully Snerdly storms in demanding the rent payment for the vet clinic by five o’clock that evening. Will the formerly famous Golden Voice of the High Plains be able to save the clinic – especially after Snerdly informs them of an injunction by Song-Pluggers Incorporated against Clay playing his old material? Make a great new family tradition with this fun, heartwarming (and slightly subversive) Holiday tale!

Three women. A London Office. A missing colleague. A pandemic. And a play that has just opened on the West End. A story about the position of women, the dignity of work, the demands of business, the life of the mind, and the need to care for your family.

In 1899, a medical doctor summoned to the ancestral home of her old flame uncovers his family’s dark history and the devastating consequences of truths kept secret for generations. The Lost Son is a limited event audio drama series inspired by gothic horror stories and classic monster novels.

The Rapscallion Agency follows the adventures of cat burglar Lisette Mainsabiles and computer hacker Paul Lee (aka Cluracan) as they use their unique skills to start a business, navigate young love, and lovingly care for a cybernetic rat.

“After the death of her parents, spoiled, abrasive Mary is sent to live with her Uncle Archibald at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire. With animated comments and apt characterizations, the cast of narrators describe how Mary discovers an abandoned secret garden and a host of unlikely friends, including plainspoken gardener Ben Weatherstaff, frail and demanding cousin Colin, and kind Dickon, who brings out the best in all living things. Engaging and well-placed sound effects–birdsong, pounding rain, footsteps on gravel–augment the production and create a full-bodied sense of place. This audiobook is a treasure and is sure to captivate listeners of all ages.” - AudioFile Magazine Review

It’s the Spectral Silhouette Radio Show! A pulpy musical audio drama inspired by old time radio programs from the 30’s and 40’s. Spectral Silhouette features a full voice cast and jazz band performing original songs and stories for your listening pleasure.

Benji Vaughn is settling into his new home, recently inherited from his grandmother. Everything looks fine until the lawyer, Harold Summerlin, appears with news of a long lost relative that will affect Benji’s inheritance. In dealing with this, Benji finds he must also face his own prejudices and their effect on his immediate family.

The Trial of Sarah, a family peace play written by Gloria Itman Blum, is a retelling of the biblical story of Sarah sending Hagar and Ishmael away to the desert to protect her own son Isaac. This fearful demand dividing Abraham's family may have been the precursor to the hostility between the Jews (the descendants of Isaac) and the Arabs (the descendants of Ishmael). The Angelic Court of Eternal Accountability reexamines and heals this ancient conflict.

The play takes place at a future time of environmental collapse, when water is so scarce that it has to be rationed, and when certain members of society are deemed unnecessary and therefore eligible to be sacrificed to save water. The protagonist, Dawn Agwas, realizes that she and her cat Finbar will be eliminated, and there’s nothing she can do about it.

The play’s inspiration came from my concern about the drought in the West as well as feelings about getting older. The title is a takeoff on the Ray Bradbury story, There Will Come Soft Rains, which is also about the end of society.

Set during the events of Fallout: New Vegas follow the story of a tough-as-nails wasteland detective and a blonde-bombshell vault girl as they solve some of postwar America's biggest mysteries. From the harsh lands of Texas to the war-torn deserts of the Mojave, Walter & Bunny risk it all to expose sensational murders, crime syndicates, and even cold cases from over 200 years ago. All of it draped in a 1940s noir blanket.

The whole package includes Trans-Atlantic accents, vinyl grain, and even era-appropriate music.

This vignette, culled from the author’s oral interviews of his grandmother’s recollections of being a nurse in 1960s Detroit, is part of a series developed to preserve and disseminate African American history through audio dramas broadcast on our campus radio station during Black History month.

For as long as Ryn could remember, she has dreamed of going on the Voyage of the Great Navigators, a sacred ritual event held every 5 years. To honor their ancestors, participants sail the entire breadth of the Aoela Nation. For Ryn, Lykos, and Maseeda, this journey will be one of self-discovery, growth, and adventure. What will Ryn find beyond the unbroken horizon? What pieces of herself wait to be discovered? Ryn is determined to see her destiny unfold.

If a radio play and an audiobook met at a campfire to share a chilling account of mayhem that takes place in hell and a real estate office parking lot, it would sound like: Whistlebottom - A Trespasser's Tale.

Like an otherworldly adventure story read by your delightfully weird mom, all of the roles and lively narration are provided by writer/actor Silvie Zamora.
This is a story about second chances and the power of love. The power of multidimensional science plays into it, too.

As if ruining my life wasn’t enough, now he’s back to ruin my Christmas.

The only thing I hate more than Christmas is Tucker James—the guy who wrote a song about me after I turned him down in high school. He became famous. I became infamous.

With Tucker back in town to play at the annual winter festival, this Christmas is shaping up to be one of the worst. Everyone loves the country music star who put our town on the map. Everyone except me.

Veteran paranormal investigator Maureen Keslyn never asked for life to be easy - for her, nothing is more invigorating than hunting down and ending a dangerous paranormal adversary. Fortunately, life at Shadow Valley Manor tends to be a little more...interesting...than the experience at your average retirement community. Right now, though, even she has to admit that things are getting out of hand. The bizarre murder of one of her elderly residents is only the beginning. How is she supposed to focus on tracking down the killer when there’s a spider loving middle-schooler underfoot? Worse, she’s acquired an unwelcome roommate - an elderly woman with dementia and a penchant for walking through walls. Maureen is ever resourceful, but the death count keeps rising despite her best efforts and the help of her team. With the life of a child hanging in the balance, Maureen is forced to take extraordinary measures - but will they be enough?

Patty Duke’s indelible show-business legacy echoes with previously untold stories of a six-decade career, and of luminaries including Richard Burton, Anne Bancroft, Judy Garland, John F. Kennedy, Helen Keller, Lucille Ball, Liza Minnelli, and many other famous celebrities. Material taken from interviews by William Jankowski formulates this informative and entertaining book endearingly read by award-winning narrator and actress Kathy Garver who was friend and peer of Patty.

Elin Willows’ popular debut Inlands explores the emotional journey of a young woman who leaves behind her life in Stockholm and finds herself in a new place at the edge of the Arctic Circle. Overwhelmed by nature’s magnitude and the simplicity and strangeness of her new life, she searches for a new identity and for ways to overcome her feelings of alienation. Rather than returning to the known (Stockholm, her friends and family), she chooses to stay and struggles to adapt to its new customs.

Wizards. Prisoners. Preachers. And robots!
They stick out. They change the conversation. They challenge the traditional narrative. They are Outcasts—isolated, different, misunderstood. Being normal is nice. But being outcast is a real part of the human experience.

Have you ever had the feeling of being alone in some way, of being on the outside looking in? If so, then the characters in these short stories will move you--sometimes by their depravity, sometimes by their sorrow...and sometimes by their joy.

The Ohio Writers' Association has partnered with Ohio Audiobook Narrators to write and produce these short stories that describe the very human experience of being "Outcast".

This audiobook includes eighteen of Beatrix Potters’ most famous stories, followed by an interview with Peter Rabbit.

“As a child I spent summers in the Lake District, where Beatrix Potter lived. Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin and Jemima Puddleduck became friends of mine. Re-living our childhood adventures has been an absolute delight.” Alison Larkin

After three hundred years trapped in the underworld, resurrected dragon shifter Marius must face a world that has moved on without him. He finds relief from his nightmares in a dragon named Harlow, the alluring daughter of a washed-up Paragonian aristocrat. But when his niece becomes trapped in the underworld, only Marius can navigate the violent domain of the dead to save her… if his bond to Harlow is strong enough to guide him back to the living.

Answering an inner call to seek the Truthseer, a youth questioning their gender identity flees from a shadowy past.
The Truthseer, sought for her wisdom, doubts her purpose and abilities.

As she tends her beehives with the companionship of a watchful goose, the bee magic warns of rippling change in the Harmony.

Transformative journeys lay ahead.

Even for the goose.

This pastoral fantasy novel imagines a nature-attuned world where what one gives matters most and Balance is precious.

Hatch looks to heal the invisible wound beneath the twisted scar stretching her right arm. A moment's hesitation on a battlefield left her friend and teammate Graham Benson dead. Hatch sets out to face her greatest fear: her past.

Hatch finds Benson's widow Shayla and her daughter Maddie. When she arrives, Hatch discovers Shayla’s bank accounts had been cleaned out by her brother, a low-end criminal. He stole the money with promises of returning it after a score.

An offshore nuclear plant comes under siege, and Hatch, honoring her code, sets out to right a wrong while redeeming her past.

At the reading of her beloved father’s will, Kate, a divorced French professor, learns of his affaire de coeur during World War II with a French artist named Emilie, to whom he has left a substantial bequest. Kate, stunned to discover the existence of this woman who captivated her father, is determined to unravel the mystery of his past and unearth the truth.

Though Emilie has passed away now, her daughter Yvette sends a box of her mother’s keepsakes from the war that are even more unnerving – among them a dried flower, a photograph, two smooth stones, and a train ticket. Kate wonders about her parents’ marriage. After the war had her father abandoned passion for honor? Did he really love her mother, or was he compelled to marry her out of his sense of duty? How well did she really know her father? Or her mother?

She embarks on a journey to the south of France to reconcile the past and confront her own demons, as well as the legacy of her father’s wartime love affair and the price he paid to live an honorable life.

Kate’s life is changed forever…

A full cast version of the original 1926 adventures of Winnie the Pooh with rich audio description of the original illustrations. ImaginationStorybooks.org makes the audiobook accessible to all children, including those who are blind or low vision. Tina Hansen, parent of a blind child, told us after listening "Who says muggles can't work magic? I believe this team of muggles know how to work magic. Face it, the author's words combined with the beautiful narration and the wonderful descriptions of the illustrations really make the story come alive. If that isn't muggle magic, I don't know what is."

Ambition: A Minuet in Power is a narrative adventure game set in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution. A visual novel at heart, it brings 18th-century Paris to life through environmental audio, an array of incidental SFX, and a classically-inspired original score, which features a talented team of soloists and ensemble musicians, and is crafted to be as authentic as possible to the period. Taking a page from theatre, the music uses a branching, reactive structure that follows the pacing and paths of the player through the ever-shifting array of parties, dramatic reveals, and betrayals that make up protagonist Yvette Decaux's story.

Sonic Realms is an innovative hybrid of tabletop role playing and audio drama. Campaigns are recorded by the players in-character, with decisions and dialogue improvised live during the game as it unfolds. Usable dialogue is then extracted from player audio and weaved into an immersive experience with cinematic music, sound effects with a full cast. We call the resulting adventures AudioSagas.

The end result is an unpredictable story which is collaboratively created by players and game masters on the spot with elements of risk and chance driving the narrative forward. Nobody knows where the story will go.