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In orbit around our planet, an alien creature is listening in on Earth noise. One sound in particular seems to have a greater significance than others but what does it mean and how will Skim and Beta find out more about it? In our final Alternative Stories episode of 2024 we are bringing you the winner of the 2024 Pen to Print Audio Play Competition “The Earth Serenades” by Emma Griffiths.

In “The Earth Serenades” by Emma Griffiths you can hear

Tiffany Clare as Skim

Emily Inkpen as Beta

Sophie Macnair as Pree

And Chris Gregory as Shakarn

Other voices were played by Sophie Macnair and Emma Griffiths

The Earth Serenades was Directed by Chris Gregory and Emily Inkpen and recorded at Orpheus Studio in London

The sound engineer was Richard Campbell

Music, sound design and editing were by Chris Gregory

The script for the earth serenades is copyright Emma Griffiths and may not be used in whole or in part except with the permission of the author

If you would like to enter the 2025 Pen to Print Audio Play Competition you need to be an unpublished audio drama writer and resident in the United Kingdom. The competition is open to entries until 5pm on Friday 21st March. You can find out more and download entry terms and conditions via the link below

https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/competitions/

The interview in this episode was conducted by Emily Inkpen and the presenter was Chris Gregory

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In this episode we look at the world of gaming and discuss the many and varied storytelling styles and approaches within games. Our guests are games industry expert, actual-play podcaster and author Oscar Clark and novelist, audio drama author and game writer Emily Inkpen.

If you would like to watch a video version of this conversation you can find it on the Alternative Stories YouTube channel here

Find out more about Oscar Clark and his work in the games industry by following him
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarclark/
Twitter / X https://x.com/Athanateus
Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/athanateus.bsky.social

You can watch Oscar's actual play podcast Anything Can Happen on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/@AnythingCouldHappen-show
and listen via Spotify here https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anything-could-happen

You can find out more about Emily Inkpen and her work by visiting her website
here https://www.emilyinkpen.com/

Find out more about The Dex Legacy here
https://www.emilyinkpen.com/thedexlegacy-home

Follow Emily on social media
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In this bonus episode of the podcast we are looking at the Script Club New York City production of "The Out-Of-Towners Club", an adapted version of an audio drama that originally ran on this podcast back in 2019.

In our interview you can hear Script Club NYC members Jackie Jorgenson, Roger Lipson, Alex Highsmith and Jess Thompson talking about their roles in the upcoming performances at the Fiction Bar / Cafe in Brooklyn

You can also hear an excerpt from our original audio drama featuring Miguel Antonio as Dan (written by Chris Gregory, Jackie Jorgenson and Mary McDonald) and an excerpt from the Script Club NYC production performed by Alex Highsmith and Jess Thompson.

You can get tickets for Out-Of-Towners Club performances on 7th and 21st December here https://script-club-nyc.ticketleap.com/holiday-radio-show/

And find out more about Script Club NYC here linktr.ee/scriptclubnyc

Follow Script Club NYC on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/scriptclubnyc/

You can hear our original audio drama of The Out-Of-Towners Club from 2019 here
and the sequel "Out-Of-Towners" here



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