Oblivity – Details, episodes & analysis

Here are five great audio drama podcast recommendations!

Just like Oblivity, all are science fiction-y. They are also either comedy, drama or an innovative mix of the two: dram-omedy.

OZ 9: Sci fi comedy 
Join the useless crew of the decrepit Oz 9 as they limp around space looking for a new home to utterly bugg*r up.

Website | Patreon

NIGHT TERRACE: Time travel comedy
Dr Anastasia Black just wanted a quiet retirement, so she’s not exactly thrilled when her suburban terrace house spontaneously starts to travel through time and space.

Receive 20% off the first season of Night Terrace with the code 'OBLIVITY' until the end of 2023!

Website | Bandcamp

CIVILIZED: Improvised dark comedy sci fi
Humanity’s final hope lies in terraforming a new world. A fleet of engineering ships are sent in advance of the colony ships sure to follow in their wake. But one lone ship becomes separated from the fleet and crash lands on an alien planet.

Website | Fable and Folly Network

DIARY OF A SPACE ARCHIVIST: light-hearted sci fi drama
An archivist finds a Curly Wurly-munching alien-bat-thing in this podcast about friends, chocolate and space.

Website | Twitter

DOWN: Sci fi drama
A 24-part science-fiction series about an expedition into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit.

Website | Patreon

Read this episodes' transcript in the Oblivity blog here.

Presenting Oz 9, a sci-fi comedy podcast. Recently, Oblivity enjoyed a cameo in Oz 9 in the form of Officer Lowell. Listen to the episode here!

If you're not listening to Oz 9, you're missing out on a wild and very unsafe ride. It's stuffed full of brilliant writing, excellent characters and more jokes and ideas than is quite frankly fair.

About Oz 9 

'On a random Tuesday in 2142, 400 Oz ships, each carrying a cargo of 50,000 sleeping rich people, were launched from Earth by a corporation called Gated Galaxies. On a mission to seek out, terraform, and probably rudely exploit any planet they stumble upon, the Oz ships were a great way to get rid of not only some very rich idiots, but also their crews of petty thieves and thugs. This is the story of one such ship, the Oz 9, where the pods have already started going dark.'

The featured episode is 82: Keep your knickers out of the biscuit tin,

Learn more at Oz-9.com and subscribe to the show in all the usual places!

Oblivity Season Two launches Wednesday 16 November!

Need a reminder of what's been happening at Research Base Persephone? We've got you! Here's a short recap.

Oblivity is an independent, full-cast, sci fi comedy drama podcast. It stars:

Cate Nunn as Commander Mildred Falconer
Hannah Wilmshurst as First Officer Joy Christy
Ashley Hunt as Officer Howell Lowell
Max Windich as Officer Aloysius Burney
Guy Grimsley as Orpheus

Oblivity is made by

Rob Stringer (showrunning, writing, directing)
Joe Carr (recording, mixing, editing, directing)
Tom Ashton (original music)

Learn more at www.oblivitypodcast.com
Follow us on Twitter at @oblivitypodcast

A bonus episode before Season Two lands on Wednesday 16 November!

When we last left aviatrix Amelia Bell (Justine Malone) in season one’s Revolutions in the Air, she was about to embark on a solo space flight, circumnavigating the ‘Sys. (That’s ‘solar system, for the uninitiated.)

Christy had decided not to join her after all - but did give her the psychomimicellum plant to which she is psychically linked.

In Amelia Bell’s Last Hurrah, we follow the plucky pilot on her long, lonely journey. Just a little time in the stasis chamber won’t do any harm… Will it?

A bonus episode, to whet appetites before Season Two lands on Wednesday 16 November!

This episode sees the return of bickering interrogators Reginald (Alistair Nunn) and Horace (Ralph Watson).

In Perfect Partners, the couple try to work out their differences in relationship counselling, facilitated by the unflappable Poppy (special guest Jen Sugden, co-creator of the Victoriocity podcast.)

Poppy tries to get the pair to open up, but could it be that she’s not asking the right questions?

A very quick announcement that Season Two is incoming on Wednesday 16 November 2022!

Return to Research Base Persephone on Pluto, and step into quantum chasms, photonic fuelling stations, abandoned shuttles, forgotten memories and luxury health spas.

As well as catching up with the crew, you’ll meet familiar adversaries – and a few new ones too.

Season Two has been along time coming – but we’re really proud of the result. There are seven full episodes, and a couple of surprises too!

Thanks to everyone who supported us to make this brand new season, and thanks to all of you for listening. And let us know if you enjoy it – it really does make our day when people do that!

So that’s Season Two; Wednesday 16 November; on Pluto! See you there!

www.oblivitypodcast.com

Following a raging storm, the heroic cyborg Lowell wakes on a distant land. To return to his comrades, he must navigate the perilous Corri-Dor, facing gods, monsters and death itself!

This episode is part of the #AcastAudioFictionWeek. We've partnered with fiction shows Desperado @desperado_Radio, Gather the Suspects @Gtsus_Pod and Hello Humans @HumanDefinitely - all creating an episode based on the theme of 'Heroes'.

To discover more, and shout out your favourite fiction podcasts, use the hashtag #AcastAudioFictionWeek on socials.

'The Lowelliad' stars:

Ashley Hunt as the hero Lowell
Hannah Wilmshurst as the deity Christy
Cate Nunn as the giant Falconer
Max Windich as the warlock Burney
Tom Ashton as the ghost of CyberGerbil

It was written by Rob Stringer; and produced by Joe Carr; with music by Tom Ashton.

Subscribe to Oblivity, and discover more at oblivitypodcast.com. and look our for Season Two coming soon! @OblivityPodcast

Please enjoy the Oblivity festive episode. We released it for our Season Two backers last year, and as we've had to put production on pause in 2020, we thought it'd be nice to share the episode with everyone!

Also - check out our online escape game 'The Profoctor Predicament' at www.oblivitypodcast.com. It's had five star reviews, and would make an ace Llama Day gift!

Whatever you're up to this December, take care, and we'll see you again soon.

Rob & team

Content warning: Contains discussion of warfare/violence

The Profoctor Predicament is a brand new immersive online Escape Game and interactive story, set in the world of Oblivity!

Travel to Pluto to investigate what happened to the missing team of Research Base Persephone. Take on perplexing puzzles and a fiendish foe, as a ferocious creature stalks ever closer to the base...

Featuring original material, videos, audio, music and artwork, this online escape game and story can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home!

It's just £5 (about $6.50), and offers 1-2 hours of fun. We recommend teams of up to four people.

Play the game at www.oblivitypodcast.com!

We hope you get the ending you deserve...

“Maybe I’ll just be in this base forever.”

With:
Ashley Hunt as Lowell
Guy Grimsley as Orpheus

Written by Rob Stringer
Production by Joe Carr
Music by Tom Ashton

Help make a second season, and get ace rewards! Back our Kickstarter campaign before Thursday 17 October 2019.