Showing results for "Islands" in Drama & Plays

Join a man thrown on to a very strange island full of strange animals, strang people and mysteries.

In an era of public versus private personas, a young woman decides to shake up her ordinary life by becoming a contestant on a reality television show. The manufactured paradise has no clocks, no way to contact the outside world, and nothing but time, a pool, and gorgeous people. As the days or weeks or months pass by, she discovers more about herself through the people around her and challenges her notions of identity and love. In a paradise where the only game is to fall in love, what will she do to win?

In this fictionalized, true crime style podcast, investigative reporters Kathleen Goldstein and Matthew Hentges look into the case of the missing 32 year old, Jeremy Wilson, a United States Navy pilot, who went missing in Mexico in July of 2024. Jeremy claimed to have gone to Mexico to meet a man that would help him go searching for an island in the Pacific Ocean. An island that was apparently not located on any maps. Jeremy's disappearance is at the forefront of this unbelievable story that is filled with suspects, speculation, conspiracy theories, and dangerous people.

Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins unexpectedly inherits a treasure map, he little knows what adventures await him. Pursued by pirates, betrayed by friends and beset by skulduggery, Jim must brave high seas and low cunning before he reaches the shores of Treasure Island. His fellow treasure hunters include the inflexible Captain Smollett, the indefatigable Doctor Livesey and the irrepressible Squire Trelawney.

AD 751: The being from the future known as Aide has brought technology to Byzantine Rome in an attempt to oppose another nefarious AI from the same future. This is a Roman Empire with the telegraph, muzzle-loading rifles, and steam-powered ships. In the midst of this transformed world: Calopodius Saronites, 17 years old and a Constantinople aristocrat who has gone to the front with General Belisarius to seek glory.

Far out in the Atlantic Ocean, where the weather is hot and the sunsets are breathtaking, there lies a small island nation called the Canard Islands, plagued by pirates and politics...   Tales from the Canard Islands is a podcast set in a fictional, original island nation of pirates. There's swordfighting, betrayal, romance, and just a hint of mystery to tie in the complex relationships and compelling plotlines. With fast paced action, interesting characters, and plundering pirates, Tales from the Canard Islands is entertaining and full of treasure just waiting to be discovered.   Writer/ ...

Eighteen-year-old Anne has left Green Gables for university in nearby Nova Scotia, where she will finally fulfill her dream of earning a degree. She sets up home in a cozy cottage in bustling Kingsport with Avonlea’s Priscilla Grant and a new friend, the beautiful Philippa Gordon. But it’s not all fun and games. Anne’s childhood friend, Ruby Gillis, dies of tuberculosis back in Avonlea, shattering Anne’s carefree attitude to life, and Gilbert finally declares his feelings and proposes. But Anne still has a naïve, overly romantic view of love and rejects him, driving a wedge between ...

Treasure Island is an adventure story and a coming-of-age narrative in which the protagonist gets a taste of treasure hunting but eventually decides that it isn't for him. The book includes some discussion of friendship and what it means to do the right thing, particularly with regard to Long John Silver's character. Silver is self-serving and wants the treasure all for his own, but he also comes to care about Jim Hawkins's life and well-being.

This ██ from ██ Island. █████████████████████████ From an island is a podcast drama built from ‘found’ audio files, ranging from voice notes to news reports. It’s a micro drama formed of short episodes to be enjoyed when you have a spare moment. Written and produced By Ben Burrell From An Island is a Fuelled By Coffee production. www.fuelledbycoffee.net @benburrell / @fuelledmedia

In 1896 HG Wells produced the Island of Doctor Moreau. After a fateful shipwreck, a chance rescue, and offer of safe harbor, Edward Prendick must contend with a dark science. A man of science, Prendick must wrestle with the ethics of its passions. His inner struggle is illuminated by the island's outward horrors. Central to the themes are ethics, principles, and the extent of human compassion. This science fiction icon argues the true question of science: Could the cure be more dangerous than the disease?View our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgoodmedia.com or ...

The Podcast Players are proud to present A Mysterious Affair at Soldier Island. This show is a radio play adaptation of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None," presented in six parts. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island off the coast of Devon, England. What do they have in common? A mysterious letter, a dark secret, and none of them know the truth for the sudden invitation.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is read by professional narrator and actress Anna Butterworth in an easy-to-listen-to and understandable style that brings this classic adventure novel to life. This is the original tale of pirates and buried treasure, a gripping story that has stood the test of time and has been the inspiration for the image of pirates in popular culture up until the present day.

James Hawkins helps his mom run a motel in modern day Montauk, Long Island. But when a mysterious man washes up on the beach with a treasure map tattooed on his chest, James discovers that Billy Bones is, in fact, a time traveling pirate from the 18th century. James and his new friends, Morgan and Max, follow the map right into a magical portal that leads them back nearly three hundred years and back into a swashbuckling adventure. For more great shows and to listen early and ad-free, visit ⁠GZMShows.com⁠.

Storyteller & audio dramatist Marty Ross presents and performs a series of magical, mysterious and sometimes creepy tales from the Scottish Isle of Arran, where he lives in a series of shows that started life as presentations for his weekly show Winter's Tales on ArranSound radio. Listeners have requested the chance to listen to the stories over and above their twice weekly broadcasts. So here they are!

The lady in white came to Ian, her presence confused him, he was intrigued. But who is she, what did she want. Ian may soon find out and if he does, he may never be the same again.Story telling from the book La Diablesse written by Anderson A Charles. Ghosts, scary folktales characters intermingled with the peaceful serine life of a Caribbean island. As read by Papa Jumbie.Here on Papa Jumbies Dark tales you can expect to be lulled into the peace and serenity of a tropical and then catapulted into the dark side with voodoo/Obeah, creatures and evil folktales characters. Venture in if you dare.

Alex Wiese, 22, steht nachts auf dem Dach seiner Universität. Er ist verzweifelt. Will er springen? Plötzlich klingelt sein Telefon, es ist Spice, sein ehemaliger Schulfreund. Spice' Freundin hat ihn verlassen, damit wird er nicht fertig. Er schlägt Alex vor, zusammen für drei Monate durch die Wildnis Islands zu trekken. Es wird eine 2.000 Kilometer lange Reise über eine große, wilde Insel, über Vulkane, Gletscher, reißende Flüsse und Wüsten.

On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist...

Read by The Dockporter co-author and enriched with summer sounds and music, this podcast is an offbeat, nostalgic coming-of-age story that appeals to anyone who ever had a summer job. If Rushmore director Wes Anderson remade Caddyshack, but it emerged as a hybrid of Footloose and Meatballs (and was a book), it would be The Dockporter.  Set on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan, The Dockporter is genre-smashing, hilariously fresh, yet refreshingly familiar—a novel about friends, family, love, luggage, and the summers we never forget. Adapted from the novel of the same name, this is the ...

Island Social Deduction is an AI-driven social deduction conversational podcast set on a medium-sized remote island. The podcast will feature AI characters tasked with gradually establishing a civilization from the island's available resources. In each episode, one AI character will assume the role of a rogue murderer, aiming to eliminate other characters before being identified and exiled from the island by the remaining AI characters. To ensure continuity, new characters will be introduced in each episode to replace any eliminated characters. The podcast will feature 15 AI characters, ...