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Times are estimated, and do not include episodes that are not directly part of the story (such as bonus episodes, etc) I have not listened to many of these just yet, so these are recommended on length alone.Length may change for any on going audio dramas, I tried to keep them out the list but I know I accidentally put some in.

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Skiatis

Created February 20, 2020

Updated May 08, 2023

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  1. ≤ One Hour

  2. The story of GreenCom, a corporate monopoly in the not-so-distant future, and the people trying to stop them. When GreenCom employee Alex finds themselves thrown into a resistance group, how much are they willing to pay for a taste of freedom?
  3. A science fiction audio drama/audio fiction podcast about AI and evil corporations, and the terrible things that happen when those things begin to mix.
  4. After learning about experimental trials for cryogenic stasis, a young woman throws herself 200 years into the future in an attempt to escape her past.
  5. This is a gentle story exploring the intricacies of a father-son relationship in a remote village in southern India. The play reveals the strength of their bonding as they work through the most unexpected of events.The story unfolds as the So
  6. We've all heard stories of people who made deals with the Devil, but did you ever wonder how the bargain was struck? In The Details you'll meet Malcolm, an ambitious office worker who believes he's interviewing for a promotion. Instead, Malco
  7. Created, written, recorded, produced, and released in just one week, Time:Bombs is a new audio drama podcast about the hilarious world of bomb disposal. From the team behind the Webby Award nominated sci-fi audio drama Wolf 359, ride along with
  8. ≤ Three Hours

  9. 1994 is a road-trip comedy set in the spring of, you guessed it, 1994. It follows the adventures of High School junior Scott Sweet and his friends as they attempt to escape the boredom of their dead-end, small-town Arizona suburb by skipping sc
  10. Juan and Tracy answer 36 questions that lead to an authentic close relationship. Use these same questions to draw close to those in your family and life!
  11. A Very Fatal Murder sends Onion Public Radio (OPR) correspondent David Pascall from New York City to the sleepy town of Bluff Springs, Nebraska to investigate the mysterious death of a 17-year-old girl, Hayley Price. Hayley was a popular, smart
  12. An ancient artifact of unfathomable power.An unseen enemy who knows how to wield it.A hero who can manifest his special ability three nights a month.A recipe for action and suspense or an open invention to a butt kicking? Find out in "Bew
  13. Marsha Everlyn (Tanya Fear), top advisor to Joan Harrison (Jenny Agutter), the leader of His Majesty's Official Opposition is currently living in exile with the rest of her party on the shores of Europe State. With more and more English politic
  14. What happens when a truck driver picks up a loaded trailer, but has no idea what’s really inside? Tony, Grammy, and Emmy award winner Cynthia Erivo journeys down a dark and lonely highway in this seven-part original scripted thriller. With imme
  15. When love is your business, you have no business falling in love. Join the gang at Regal Bride as they battle birds and brides in this zany holiday romantic comedy! Starring Paula Deming and Keiko Agena as Emma and Jackie, the best friends in
  16. 1959: Newly-graduated secret agent Eglantine Whitechapel is valedictorian of her year. But when her beloved mentor Ira Nudeman mysteriously vanishes along with his cursed, occult book the Necronomicon, Whitechapel’s world is turned upside down.
  17. A sitcom about an urban fox trying to escape the tyranny of the countryside.
  18. Everyone thought Danny had gone missing. Towards the end of senior year she vanished, leaving everyone confused and devastated including her closest friend in the world, Becca. GASLIGHT picks up years later when Becca and her new husband receiv
  19. In a museum in the far distant future in a far distant galaxy, visitors learn about a roadtrip across the stars of forgiveness, loss, apathy, and of course, revolution It Was Never Just About the Revolution is a production of the Multiversal
  20. Twelve-year old Lauren takes her cat-sitting job seriously, but like a cat, she can be a little too curious for her own good. When she starts snooping around her boss’s laptop she finds out that he’s not just a food inspector, but a special age
  21. Tig Torres is back! The Lit Killer saga continues in Season 2 as friends new and old return to Hollow Falls for the grand reopening of the Montague Hotel. But the town is in for a rude awakening when bodies begin to drop, with an antique music
  22. From GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, The Message and its sequel, LifeAfter, take listeners on journeys to the limits of technology. In The Message, an alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle with life or death consequences.
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  23. LOVEVILLE HIGH is a 9-part musical podcast series! Each ten-minute episode is a self-contained love story in the fictional town of Loveville, Ohio on prom night. New love, old love, romantic love, friend love, gay and straight, cis and genderqu
  24. Drawing inspiration from 1950s radio serials and ghost stories, Midnight Radio follows two women finding love through an unlikely correspondence about community, leaving your small hometown, our relationship to the past, what it means to be hau
  25. A fiction show about a Korean American son (Joel Kim Booster) who wants to come out to his mom (Esther Moon), but can't because they don't speak the same language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
  26. Do you miss the days of old time radio? No? Too f&*king bad, buster, that's what you're getting. Decades ago, Detective Mystery Jones was shamed into obscurity after failing to apprehend his greatest enemy. Now, 30 years later, the new playgrou
  27. The Opulence Theater Players Present: The Valiant! A six part radio play that chronicles the adventures of Private Inspector Howard Stoker and Dame Sally Beretta as they crack crime rings, take down thieves, and search tirelessly for the masked
  28. Helen’s always dreamed of ditching her hometown, so when she lands a job at the company that makes Sandra, everyone's favorite A.I., she figures it’s the next-best thing. But working behind the curtain isn’t quite the escape from reality that H
  29. A Meta-Murder Mystery coming to earbuds near you!Everything is going perfectly with KFJ's plan to con an old lady out of an obscene amount of money, until his unexpected and brutal murder. Forced to shack up with the Narrator of his murder my
  30. A 6-part serialized mocu-mystery podcast that parodies the True Crime genre. We follow married couple Ira and Julia Leiser, (Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus) new residents of a fictional Canadian cottage town. When three of their patio chairs go
  31. The Beacon Jar is a supernatural horror anthology podcast written and produced by Doryen Chin. Each episode contains a brand-new thrilling short story written specifically for the show, presented with minimal sound design and thoughtfully chose
  32. Events in a small Irish village after the arrival of English refugees, post-Brexit. A 12-part scripted comedy podcast.Starring Kelly Campbell, Jessica Carroll, Clint Dyer, David Ganly, Gary Lilburn, Deirdra Morris, Elizabeth Moynihan, Akemnj
  33. The 200 Year Old is a future-facing podcast, set in 2218. Starring Thapelo Mokoena and Nambitha Mpumlwana. Everything you hear in this podcast is based on current science and future forecasts, by leading experts on longevity and the future worl
  34. 15 year old Madyson tells the story of the Behemoth. A large, lumbering beast that has emerged from the waters off of Cape Cod. As the Behemoth begins to walk across the country Madyson sees a chance to change her life.
  35. A screwball comedy fiction podcast that follows the misadventures of a wanna-be actress as she navigates the treacherous waters of Hollywood in her quest to become the Next Big Thing.
  36. John Blade is the world's greatest secret agent! When evil rears it's ugly head, there is only one person to call: John Blade!
  37. It's not haunted... It's not hell... It's THE HOTEL!From five star resorts down to seedy motels, each episode the Hotel changes her shape and a new guest checks in with The Manager, The Lobby Boy, and The Owner. Good and bad, innocent or guil
  38. A serial killer stalks the shadows of New England. There is a shocking, impossible connection between his victims and the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.In this six-episode audio thriller podcast, FBI Agent Dolores Nayle and her team pursue
  39. The Music Box is currently recording Season 2 and will be back soon.Dwell in this fantastical world and follow the adventures of a Lore Master and his storytelling trinket.Where Wondrous Stories are Told, Marvellous Adventures Begin to Unfo
  40. Do you want to hear a story? It's the story of an 11-year-old girl who uses a magic crystal to summon the legendary Mayan gods. But her plan backfires, and instead she awakens an ancient evil! With the help of her sister and a 20-foot talking s
  41. A comedic audio drama about found families, role-playing games, dungeons, and (occasionally) dragons. "Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama" finalist at the 2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards.Support this show at: patreon.com/theordinaryepic.
  42. Sylda, a young half-elf, has just graduated from the College of Mages. And, joy of joys, she has also moved back in with her parents. Stuck in a dead-end town with no idea what to do, she begins writing a diary, hoping something interesting wil
  43. What happens when rival pets have dueling podcasts? Find out as Jones (Jay Pharoah), a slick cat with a taste for auto tune, faces off with Waffles (Emily Lynne), a dog who can’t help chewing her microphone. Also starring Benny the gerbil (Euge
  44. The Ventura twins are yanked into another dimension where they meet a distant cousin who gives them an extraordinary mission: travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. Alexa and Beni visit three continents across the span of
  45. When Tink discovers she can talk to machines, she brings to life Jupiter, a retro game console. Now she has to find him and put him back to sleep before he wreaks havoc in the neighborhood.
  46. After making a wish on the Christmas Star, Holly finds herself popping in and out of Tinsel Town, a magical place where it’s Christmas everyday. But after getting stuck there, her friends - a giant candy cane, a mysterious ornament, and a polar
  47. A new audio fiction podcast anthology series, acted and written by indie artists. By all of us, for all of us
  48. ≤ Five Hours

  49. 66B follows the adventures of Reagan and Annabelle as they move into a haunted flat.
  50. The year is 2172 and the world is dying. A small fraction of the Earth's former biosphere remains. The world is running out of food. During these hard times part of the human population has gone sterile. There has been massive inbreeding and ge
  51. Explosive techno-thriller from Resonance 104.4FM. A’isha is just about holding down her job at the tech giant Meta before her old friend bursts in and accuses her boss of murder. She has to face up to what she has become, the lies that are wove
  52. Six women. One book. And a demon from hell. This is Calling Darkness, an audio drama that follows the mishaps of six girls who inadvertently summon a demon and have to deal with the chilling consequences. Calling Darkness is a horror comedy sho
  53. Celestial Blood is a bilingual radionovela about love and secrets in the family of twins Sol and Mundo Lucero. It’s narrated by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.
  54. CITIZEN Q is a 12 Episode Psychological Noir Thriller told through the Radio Serial medium. Dealing with themes of suburban apathy, the police state, totalitarian capitalism and identity in the modern age, Citizen Q crosses the genres of spy t
  55. In a world filled with talking animals, cartoony villains, and crime, two detectives must solve the crimes no one else can. Detective Howard Blank is trying to solve the mystery of his past, and his partner, Johnny Taco the dinosaur, is the onl
  56. When John Quinney was ten years old, he took the stand to testify against his own father. He had come to believe that his dad Melvin was the murderous leader of a satanic cult. It would be decades before John would learn that his family was jus
  57. Deadly Manners is a 10 episode, dark comedy murder-mystery series set in the winter of 1954. It follows the events during the night of the affluent Billings family annual dinner party with their distinguished, eccentric guests. However, all is
  58. Set over a few flickering nights in Cleveland, Ohio, this is a story of creatures, human and otherwise, caught in the eternal pornography of the cosmos, told in the blockbuster cinematic style of Spielberg classics.
  59. Season 1: Fall of the ShahA tale of power, betrayal and fear. Taking you back to the 1970s, when the Iranian Revolution would change the world forever. A nine-part drama.Season 2: FukushimaA tsunami hits the Japanese nuclear plant. The disas
  60. The year is 2062 and everyone is gay. It’s a conservative’s worst nightmare: a totalitarian government rules over what’s left of North America to spread its insidious gay agenda. Humanity’s only hope for a rebellion rests on the shoulders of a
  61. The world’s largest museum of obsolete technology is threatened with closure unless Hector - its cantankerous, turnkey-operated clockwork curator - can match the popularity of the cutting-edge Uptodateum across the road. Only George - the mild
  62. The adventures of Ruby Buckaroo, Bandit Queen of the Cowboys
  63. Deirdre Gardner finds a lost cassette tape from 1992 in an attic and embarks on a quest to revive the sound of a generation. A serial fiction musical podcast about what we remember, and what we forget. #rememberWimFaros
  64. NOW PLAYING: Descendants, The Janus Descending Sequel: Book One - InheritanceJANUS DESCENDING is limited series, science fiction/horror audio drama podcast, follows the arrival of two xenoarcheologists on a small world orbiting a binary star.
  65. Meteor City is an alternate history sci-fi audio drama. In 2008, a freak meteor shower hit Detroit, killing hundreds and displacing thousands. Bianca Diaz, a vlogger returns to Detroit, nearly a decade after fleeing with her mother, after the d
  66. Munchen, Minnesota has fallen on hard times. Neighborhoods have emptied out, crime is rampant. But Munchen's got an even more serious problem: It's on the verge of a supernatural infestation. Serial podcast drama in the style of a TV show!
  67. A comedy sci-fi series ||Commander Falconer is missing the war...Following years in front line combat, a decorated hero is posted to the remote ice plains of Pluto on her toughest mission yet: to oversee a small, dysfunctional research team.
  68. In 2001 two girls, on opposite sides of town, in the dead of night, stopped what they were doing and walked into the Daniel Boone National Forest. Now, a journalist who grew up with the girls is coming home to find out what happened that night
  69. Space Ward is an epic neo-noir audio drama about survivors of a massive space attack... in therapy - like a cross between Mass Effect and In Treatment.
  70. On election night, two-term president Oliver Pierce watches in disbelief from the White House as Charles Dunwalke wins a controversial electoral college victory. With only 73 days before Dunwalke’s inauguration, president Pierce makes a secret
  71. The Archivist follows a five friends on a cross-country roadtrip that gets briefly interrupted by an escalating series of catastrophic events. Join James "Cash" Carmichael and his tape recorder as they travel through a country in the middle o
  72. An eight-part mystery story. Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the answers must be somewhere on these tapes.
  73. When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemi
  74. The Magical History of Knox County follows Mordecai Dogwood as he takes over for the missing host of a popular public radio show in rural Ohio - only to discover a magical ecosystem hiding in plain sight. With the help of a station tech, a park
  75. Discover a wondrously surreal world of magic, music, and mystery. This immersive, cinematic audio spectacle follows the adventures of a lonely, stage-struck janitor who is drawn into the larger-than-life universe of the Orbiting Human Circus, a
  76. When a supernatural threat drives mankind to the point of extinction, survivors around the globe struggle to endure in a world with just three rules:Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise.
  77. Kaitlin Prest, creator and host of the Prix-Italia winner The Heart, presents the first audio fiction from CBC Podcasts. The Shadows is a story about the anatomy of a relationship: a crush, a choice, ...
  78. The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel is a high-quality serial mystery story for middle graders, performed by actual kids. Think Goonies, meets Spy Kids, meets Stranger Things for 8-12 year-olds. Listen along as eleven-year-old Mars Pat
  79. Rupert and Amir are finally getting married and this time nothing is going to stop them. Not the handsome new prince who’s rolled into town and only has eyes for Rupert. Not the mysterious disappearance of half the kingdom’s population. Not eve
  80. Unplaced tells the story of a woman who wakes up one day to find that no one can see or hear her, and everyone she knows is slowly forgetting about her. That would be weird enough...but after a few weeks of being invisible, she finds she's not
  81. Nolira is an agronomist tasked with establishing agriculture in a new solar system, but when she wakes up on a now- empty colony ship, the whole of her plan disappears. The ship has been set adrift, with numerous mission-critical problems requi
  82. When video collector Mark Cambria watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn't exist. Mark and his girlfriend Tamra set out to investigate the tape's origin and find themselves caught up in a web of c
  83. Dave is just a regular guy who does regular things until all of a sudden he dies and is damned to hell for all of eternity. With Dave’s caseworker from hell (literally), he takes a trip down Memory Lane to relive the five biggest and worst mome
  84. 'We Fix Space Junk' follows seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange and wonderful beings as they carry out odd jobs on the fringes of the law.A female-led sci-fi c

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