A fortnightly horror audio drama. Spirit Box Radio is a cosy horror fiction podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane. The show has recently been taken over by Sam Enfield, a former postboy with no experience in the arcane arts, following the disappearance of the previous host. Sam soon discovers there are more than ghosts haunting the show, and finds himself amidst a mystery which threatens everything he knows about the world beyond his tiny basement broadcast studio, and maybe even himself. With a whole host of supporting characters from knife-wielding lesbians and truth-knowing lawyers to angry bog-witches and hot-coded florists, the world of SBR is brought to life by a cast of majority LGBTQ+ actors from across the world. Spirit Box Radio started airing in November 2020. It now has almost 100 episodes and won the The People's Choice Podcast Awards Best Fiction Podcast of 2021, and a finalist in the 2021 Audio Verse Awards, at which it also won Best Guest Performance. Tune in, get spooky. Created by Eira Major for Hanging Sloth Studios. Transcripts available on the HSS website. Support this show on Ko-Fi or Patreon. Part of the Rusty Quill Network. Get episodes one day early with Patreon!
Hi! Eira dropping by to introduce you to my brand new dark fantasy thriller, Remnants! I hope you enjoy listening to episode one, you can hear episode two IMMEDIATELY if you go to the Remnants feed, and supporters on Patreon get early access to the third episode on Friday 19th July, the day after this feed drop goes live!
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Please bear in mind that this work has content some listeners may find distressing, including themes of war, violence, and grief. This episode contains:
– coarse language
– descriptions of war and occupied territories
– child neglect and endangerment
– descriptions of a fascist regime
– implications of sex with dubious consent
– descriptions of violence
– references to consensual sex
– implications of murder
This show is created, performed and produced by Eira Major.
SBRR Character Focus: Sam & Oliver, the Flower Boys
Thursday, February 15, 2024 • Duration 16:07
In this episode of SBRR, Eira looks back at the characters who make up one of the key relationships in this show, Sam, SBR's bubbly host, and Oliver, his melancholy florist boyfriend. Enjoy!
Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios
SBR EAK: 'The Everyday Exorcist' (The Novel SBR Never Was)
Thursday, September 16, 2021 • Duration 12:42
Pippin reads an excerpt from 'The Everyday Exorcist', the novel that Spirit Box Radio almost was!! How much has changed from this short piece written during early planning compared to the finished show??
– Background Sound effects of various volumes, with panning effects (meaning audio may be different in left and right speakers/headphones/earphones). These sound effects include: creaking/groaning wood; thunder; ticking clocks; objects rattling; static.
– Threats of violence, including murder
- Off screen eye trauma (referenced)
– Door slamming
– Depiction of attempted emotional manipulation (of a major character by a non-major character)
– Vocal distortion (slight echo effect and reverberation)
– Relatively loud sound effects of explosion/destruction (these are slowly introduced and do not happen at random)
– Sounds of pain and physical distress (distant screams; gasping; wheezing; coughing; spluttering)
– Sound of a knife
– ‘On-screen’ major character death (temporary)
– Negative self-talk (light, infrequent, but persistent)
– Crying infant
– Sounds of a storm (thunder; rain; wind)
– Implied child neglect
SBR 1.39: Lament
Season 1
Thursday, September 2, 2021 • Duration 25:32
A final cry; a last gasp out of the darkness; and a new path opens up for our unlikely host of Spirit Box Radio...
- Emotive responses to emotional neglect by a parent
- Audible crying and sniffling
- Shouting (audio adjusted so it's not much louder than other audio, but it retains a 'shouty'/angry tone)
- Static
- Distorted audio (echo effect)
- Background sound effects of various volumes
- Main characters ignoring the distress of other main characters
- Sounds of pain/discomfort
- Muttering/unclear audio
- Some loss of autonomy in a main character (this is implied rather than massively visceral; think escalating unintended negative consequences rather than coughing up a chess piece)
Directed, edited and produced byPippin Eira Major, the voice of Sam Enfield. This episode also features Alex Peilober-Richardson as Anastasia Morgana 'Just Anna' Enfield and Will J Cummings as the Florist, Oliver Boleyn.
Find the full cast here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/sbr-cast/
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SBR 1.37: Oliver
Season 1
Thursday, August 19, 2021 • Duration 23:54
The Florist returns, but his arrival is unexpected, and not entirely welcome...
Directed, edited and produced byPippin Eira Major, the voice of Sam Enfield. This episode also features Alex Peilober-Richardson as Anastasia Morgana 'Just Anna' Enfield and Will J Cummings as the Florist, Oliver Boleyn.
Find the full cast here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/sbr-cast/
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SBR 1.36: Well-Wisher
Season 1
Thursday, August 12, 2021 • Duration 20:23
Sam receives a troubling letter about pigeons, and things on the forums take an unusual turn...
Transcript available here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/sbr-1-36-well-wisher/
Spirit Box Radio is a podcast distributed by Hanging Sloth Studios under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, and this concludes the end of season one.
The incredible cast of Season One has featured:
Jessie Jeffrey as Ekaterina Erzabet ‘Kitty the Investigator’ Enfield
Alex Peilober-Richardson as Anastasia Morgana ‘ Just Anna’ Enfield
Will Cummings as the Florist, Oliver Boleyn, the Unrelenting
Daisy J Major as Regular Caller Beth
Billy Bray as Scourge
Beca Barton as Indifference, or Indi
Tais Grimberg as Ignorance, or Bliss
Kay Watson as Ingratitude, or Ingra
Freya Meldrum as Show Caller Emily
Ripley as the Bog Witch Rhytidia Delphus and Stykler Senior
Mars J Brown as Stykler Jnr.
Rose Eke as the Mystery Caller
Elinor Wood as Madame Marie
with Gary Martyn Major as the Man Who Walks Here and There
It also starred me, writer, director and producer of the show, Pippin Eira Major, as Samael Apollo Enfield, Ghost-maker, Heir Apparent to the Blood Rose Crown, and host of Spirit Box Radio.
A huge thank you to our Patreon slothlings, without whom this show could not exist: Esther Phillips, Isaac Standen, Noah, Sushi, mothsintheattic, Sethame (AKA Karl the Melk Overlord), Kelsticks, Talfryn SmallerCrytid (AKA SBR George), MapleElliot, resident embroider extraordinaire Kal, Shelagh Hodgson, cast darlings Ripley and Billy, and all of the other slothlings too!
And of course, thanks to you, faithful listeners, for tuning in and getting spooky with us this season. Spirit Box Radio will return. Until then, stay spooky.
Directed, edited and produced byPippin Eira Major, the voice of Sam Enfield. This episode also features Alex Peilober-Richardson as Anastasia Morgana 'Just Anna' Enfield and Will J Cummings as the Florist, Oliver Boleyn.
Find the full cast here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/sbr-cast/
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