Untrue Stories

Halloween special featuring bitter karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals! 
In a quest to resurrect a Morlock, Orwell and Wells find themselves in a weird metaphysical forest inhabited by historical horror writers, and attempt to impress Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe around the campfire.
The Midnight Pals is created by bitter karella. You can follow their antics on Twitter at https://twitter.com/midnight_pals. They are currently crowdfunding for their third book! More details at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/submitted-for-the-approval-of-the-midnight-pals-3
CAST 
Robin Johnson as George Orwell
Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells
Tara Court as Julia
Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett
Rachel Pulliam as Ursula Le Guin
Rebecca Thibodeaux as the newspaper seller
Alexander Walsh as the servant
Canavan Connolly as the Morlock
WITH SPECIAL GUEST MIDNIGHT PALS 
Rebecca D'Souza as Mary Shelley
Robin Johnson as H. P. Lovecraft
Canavan Connolly as Edgar Allan Poe
I'm Cthulhu goes to (something like) the tune of Flanders and Swann's The Gnu.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/midnight-pals-halloween-crossover/transcript. 
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Find all episodes of H. G. Wells Has His Regrets on all the usual podcast sites, and more info at https://hgwellshashisregrets.wordpress.com. 
Timestamps (mm:ss):
00:00: Preambulatory waffle00:16: Crossover special with bitter karella's The Midnight Pals (trailer here: https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/midnight-pals-halloween-crossover-trailer)
00:39: Unannounced Halloween collaboration, and Season 2 of Untrue Stories
00:54: Turpentine Productions' H. G. Wells Has His Regrets
01:19: The Audio Verse Awards
01:48: Some other audio dramas I've been enjoying

02:51: Featured trailer for H. G. Wells Has His Regrets
You can listen to nominees for the Audio Verse Awards at their nominee showcase at https://anchor.fm/audioverseawards, then cast your ballot at https://audioverseawards.net/vote/. The first round of voting is open until Sunday 30 October. It would mean a lot to us if you included Untrue Stories on your ballot. 
Links to the other audio dramas I recommended: 
Desert Skies: https://desertskiespodcast.com
Wireland Ranch: https://wirelandranch.com
Echoes (in) Between: https://echoesinbetween.podbean.com
A transcript of this content is available at https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/hg-wells-has-his-regrets-trailer/transcript.
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Coming this Halloween, a crossover Hugo-nominated twitter microfiction The Midnight Pals! Wells and Orwell sit round the campfire with Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and H. P. Lovecraft in an uncharacteristically spooky episode of Untrue Stories. 
The Midnight Pals is created by bitter karella. You can follow their antics on Twitter at https://twitter.com/midnight_pals. 
CAST
Robin Johnson as George Orwell and H. P. Lovecraft
Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells
Canavan Connolly as Edgar Allan Poe
Rebecca D'Souza as Mary Shelley
A transcript of this trailer is available at https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/midnight-pals-halloween-crossover-trailer/transcript. 
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A supercut of all season 1 episodes for convenient bingeing. 
George Orwell has rented a getaway cottage on a remote Scottish island to finish work on his groundbreaking novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unfortunately, he finds he's been double-booked with the last person he'd choose to take a holiday with—his annoying literary nemesis, H. G. Wells! An argument about the destiny of humanity and the right way to make a cup of tea escalates into an aeon-spanning adventure of time travel and political machination, as Orwell conspires with other classic dystopian science fiction authors to use Wells's time-travel technology to shape the world into the dark future of their own books. 
This omnibus episode includes all six main episodes of Untrue Stories' first season, plus its three bonus mini-episodes, two of which have been integrated into the main continuity and the third of which is included as a post-credit scene. The episodes are linked together with short music cues, leaving all the credits to the end. There have also been numerous improvements to audio quality, particularly in the earlier episodes. 
Episode 1: A Nice Cup of Tea (0:00:58—0:14:27)
Episode 2: The Wheels of Chance (0:14:30—0:28:15)
Episode 3: Battle Ground (0:28:19—0:33:21 and 0:34:58—0:40:06)Mini-episode #1: Evil George Orwell (0:33:20—0:34:59)

Episode 4: How a Nation Is Exploited (0:40:09—0:56:17)
Episode 5: Man Becomes a Different Animal (0:56:20—1:11:02)
Episode 6: The Wonderful Visit (1:11:05—1:21:50 and 1:27:59—1:33:33)Mini-episode #2: Exile to Hell (1:21:51—1:27:58)

Mini-episode #3: The Telescreen Programme: Newspeak Phrasebook (post-credit scene) (1:37:02—1:42:21)
CAST: 
Robin Johnson as George Orwell
Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells
Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett
Tara Court as Julia
Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Captain Rutherford
Simon Beck as Aldous Huxley
Alexander Walsh as Yevgeny Zamyatin, Isaac Asimov and the radio/telescreen announcer
David Court as Ray Bradbury
Alex Noussias as Margaret Atwood
Canavan Connolly as Nebogipfel the Morlock
Rachel Pulliam as Ursula Le Guin
Eve Morris as the joycamp commander and Oldspeak interpreter
Additional voices by Robin, Eve and Alexander
Sound effects were sourced from freesound dot org, and include sounds made by the users alecbark, anagar, caitlin-100, ccomics88, deleted-user-56114036, djgriffin, fabrizio84, fillsoko, floodmix, hasean, ikbenraar, inchadney, inspectorj, iwanplay, juanfg, katelyn100, keweldog, keithpeter, m1a2t3z4, mootmcnoodles, prim-ordial, panska-tlolkova-matilda, sin2xv0, sophielhall3535, soundsnapfx, timbre, vpp-2015, webbfilmsuk, and wlabarron.  Original music was by Robin Johnson. The Internationale (as used as accompaniment for Oceania, 'Tis For Thee) was a public domain recording by the Belinskogo Radio Orchestra. 
A transcript of this omnibus episode is available here. 
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14 September 2022: This episode has been updated to enhance audio.
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Orwell, Wells and their pals gather in 1948 for the astonishing season finale. 
Wells arrives back on  the Isle of Jura with an uninvited guest, where things come to a head as even more time travelling science fiction writers arrive to interfere. 
CAST 
Robin Johnson as George Orwell
Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells
Rachel Pulliam as Ursula Le Guin
Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Chief Rutherford
Tara Court as Julia
Alexander Paul Walsh as Isaac Asimov
David Court as Ray Bradbury
Canavan Connolly as Nebogipfel the Morlock
Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett
additional voices by Eve Morris, Robin, and Alexander
The music was by Robin Johnson, and sound effects were sourced from freesound.org.
A transcript of this episode is available here. 
This episode marks Untrue Stories' first season finale. Producing Untrue Stories is the most fun I've had for ages. I'd like to thank everybody in the cast for being part of my daft thing, and the audiodrama communities on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, who are all much nicer than the ambient niceness on those hellsites. We're of course indebted to all the speculative fiction writers we've messed about with—George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Ursula Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Asimov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Ella Merchant, John Wyndham, and any I've forgotten—and to you for listening. Thank you!
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