Magenta Presents – Details, episodes & analysis

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Hello, listeners! It’s us again. Hopefully you listened to our last message. If you didn’t, it was about how we’re taking all our shows off Spotify.

And now, that time has come: as of today, we’ve requested their removal. Spotify makes the process as opaque as possible, so we don’t have a definitive date for when they will disappear, but it is imminent.

So, where can you find us once we’re off Spotify?

Where are we putting our brand new season of Mockery Manor?

Are we making sure there’s always a free way to listen to it?

Firstly, yes, there are many ways to listen to our shows for free. They will continue to exist on almost all podcast platforms - except Spotify. The free versions include adverts, although we try to keep those to a minimum.

If you’d prefer to listen to Mockery without adverts - and who wouldn’t - then the most ethical way to do that is one we’ve just launched, where for only £3.49, you can purchase a whole season of Mockery on Bandcamp. And if you’re wondering why we chose £3.49, that’s because that was the average cost of a CD single in around 2002, when I started buying music.

All our scripted podcasts are now available on Bandcamp, and they sound much better. The audio quality of a podcast is higher there than on any other online platform. MUCH higher. That’s because podcast platforms use compressed MP3s, while on Bandcamp, everything is CD-quality, high definition lossless audio.

And unlike other online services, Bandcamp pays artists fairly. In a world that seems to be trying to destroy creators, services like Bandcamp means we can keep going.

Also, Bandcamp’s profits DO NOT go into the pockets of mass murderers! What a world, where that’s even a thing.

We’ve always given our monthly supporters free access to our music albums on Bandcamp, but going forward, they’ll also have access to unlimited plays of our podcasts in high definition, so join us over on Ko-fi for that delicious perk.

Mockery Manor season 4 is due out this summer, so please do listen to it for free on any other podcast platform, or for £3.49 on Bandcamp.

See you on the other side!

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Hello, Laurence & Lindsay here. We've got a big problem, and we need your help.

If you're listening to this on Spotify, we're asking you to stop, and switch to another podcast player.

As I'm sure most of you know, there's plenty of evidence that Spotify is a terrible company with a long history of exploiting and underpaying artists, but that's only part of why it's so bad.

It's been reported that Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, has recently invested millions of Euros of your subscription fees in an AI weaponry company called Helsing. This company has developed an automated target identification system, with the option to keep a human in the loop. In other words, it's machines selecting which humans to kill on the battlefield.

It's also been reported Spotify donated $150,000 to the Trump campaign, and it's recently been running ICE recruitment ads. It is a powerful force for bad.

So here's our problem. Almost half of our total listenership comes from Spotify, and the adverts that we run are how we make our money. If we just pulled our podcasts straight away, that would be a huge financial blow for us.

So we would like to urge you to listen elsewhere, on another podcast player. Lots of people recommend one called Pocket Casts, we've also heard good things about Podcast Addict. In the last month, we've had downloads from about 50 different podcast players, so there are plenty of alternatives.

We've going to take our podcasts off Spotify as soon as it becomes clear that there is a real movement to cancel Spotify subscriptions and move to other platforms, and that movement is growing.

For you, thankfully, this doesn't cost anything. Podcasts are, and will always be, free to listen to on any platform. Like we said, a lot of people seem to like Pocket Casts, and as far as we know, they're not evil. There are also a ton of others to choose from - all very accessible, and all free.

If you've ever enjoyed our podcasts, or you're about to discover them, thank you so much for listening. Let's try and do the right thing.

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(CW: alcohol abuse, self-harm, suicide, grief)

"Who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Familialarity, written and performed by Ivan Wilkinson.

Ivan is a prolific writer and performer, and the co-founder of theatre company Quill and Inkling, Ivan has written adaptations of The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Prisoner of Zenda, Beowulf, The Three Musketeers and Kidnapped.

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Magenta Presents... Douglas Speaking, by Lindsay Sharman.

A story of a man who talks to himself.

Lindsay is the writer and director of Mockery Manor, The Ballad Of Anne & Mary, and Ghosted.

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Magenta Presents... the story of a woman going through some big changes.

The Paper Witch, written Shaun Baines, performed by Beth Eyre.

Shaun Baines is a writer who lives in a damp cottage in Scotland. He has ugly chickens and an ugly dog. His Holly Fleet mysteries and Daniel Dayton thrillers are available on Amazon. He also runs comedypilotpresents.com, a podcast showcasing the best in new sitcom writing.

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Magenta Presents... a shocking tale from returning creepmeister Mason Ball, entitled The House Is Not Haunted.

Mason’s work can be found at his website, including his novel The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths Of Cumberland County, together with short story collections, fairy tales, poetry and more…

Mason also moonlights as cabaret host Benjamin Louche at London's award-winning Lynchian cabaret institution The Double R Club

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Magenta Presents... Alexander Frador, by Suzanne Andrade.

A story of a woman with a terrible memory.

Suzanne Andrade is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the multi-award-winning London theatre company 1927.

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Greetings, fans of the esoteric! It's a very special episode - recorded live from the London Podcast Festival 2023, it's a fusion of Sonos Mystica and Magenta Presents!

Magenta and Bernard begin by meeting their tragic fans and solving a few problems through the mystic arts of bibliomancy and cat cards, before embarking on a brand new, chilling tale - Little Boxes.

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Magenta Presents... the second short story of the series! The Woodwose, by Lindsay Sharman.

A story from a long time ago, when humans shared the land with the wolf, the lynx, the hobgoblin and the grim. A story of a young girl born between worlds.

Lindsay is the writer and director of Mockery Manor, The Ballad Of Anne & Mary, and Ghosted.

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Magenta Presents... the first of many short stories: The Yellow Necktie, by Mason Ball.

Mason’s work can be found at his website, including his novel The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths Of Cumberland County, together with short story collections, fairy tales, poetry and more…

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