THE TOYMAKER - A chilling christmas horror - 16+

Hello AUDIO DRAMA LOVERS

Here is the second ASTOUNDINGLY BRILLIANT panel from last year’s super inspiring AUDIO DRAMA HUB PODFEST!

With a short pitchathon session to start we then join THE EFFERVESENT Naomi Clarke in the chair with panel guests Alasdair Stuart, Marguerite Kenner, Chloe Hendry and Pip Thorne with a silent Michael Ireland on the  powerpoint slides….

ENJOY

A reminder to have a look on audiodramahub.com for all competition entries info (deadlines are coming up!)  and chances to sponsor this event with YOUR LOGO FRONT AND CENTRE ON OUR BANNERS (or slightly to the left and right tbh), and also where to pitch your live show advert and send us your trailer which we will play during the day…

AUDIO DRAMA HUB PITCHATHON PITCHERS:

*NEIGHBOURLY 

   Kit Robson

*ROGUEMAKER

   Bonnie Calderwood-Aspinwall

* ANKORR 643 

   Perry 

Then a panel chaired by the exuberantly effervescent Naomi Clarke, writer of The Secret of St Kilda…..

With Pip Thorne (LEGEND) of Amelia Project with amazing tips on running PATREON and more! (Spoilers - at beginning do high effort - later minisodes you can fund once established)

LISTEN PEOPLE - THERE’S AWESOME TIPS IN HERE

Chloe Hendry (PUBLICITY LEGEND FOR SECRET ST KILDA….Fundraiser and creative on ETHICS TOWN) talks top tips TUMBLR AND SOCIALS AND MORE

ALASDAIR STUART (ESCAPE ARTISTS & ACTOR WRITER OF AWESOME THINGS) Talks self care and creative freedoms

MARGUERITE KENNER - (ESCAPE ARTISTS & LEGAL ADVISER AND MORE) talks collaborating effectively and more!

In this panel, the team explore patreon top tips, why TUMBLR is the place to be, and why you need a team (possibly of 22 year olds!), and they delve into the crowdfunded potentials and limitations, and marketing marketing marketing.

Seriously
STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING / MAKING/ EDITING and listen - unmissable brilliant tips learnt by experience in here...


THANK YOU

The AUDIO DRAMA HUB PODFEST TEAM
ADH PODFEST WEBSITE

SPONSOR US DO WITH HEARTY THANKS
SPONSOR US - GET YOUR LOGO ON OUR BANNER FOR £15 SPONSOR OUR LIVE STREAM
SPONSOR OUR PANELS AND WORKSHOPS!

PITCH US!
We want your live show AND new show pitches - deadline 10 oct
We want your live advert pitches
We want your trailers
Please?!

See you there on 4 th November, Oak Room, Wycombe Swan theatre, uk. 11am - 915 pm

Keynote speaker the amazing MARIELE-RUNACRE-TEMPLE

Huzzhas!
Tickets avaiable on the Wycombe Swan website this week

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Hello!
Welcome to the first release of the 
AUDIO DRAMA HUB PODFEST LIVE EVENTS PODEPS

Here we have Fiona Thraille beautifully chairing our WRITER’S PANEL with the super amazing 

Maxamillian John, 
Karin Heimdahl, 
Chris Gregory 
and Emily C A Snyder 

with UNISSABLE tips on improving your writing, developing your style,  we also fathom what Juvenalia is and how our panellists tackle it, and so much more!

Fiona mentions 11th hour audio which has kicked off now - the 1st OCT so hunt down their website by clicking on the name above,  and join them in creating some horror fun!  24 HOUR HUBRIS is also mentioned and worth looking at for future audio making funtimes and collaboration. 

Please be aware there are mentions of suicide and strong scene drama.  

THANK YOU HEARTILY TO ...

THE PODCAST HOST 

...FOR SPONSORING US FOR THIS PANEL EVENT LAST YEAR, ANDDDD THEY ARE SO AMAZING AND SO LOVED LAST YEAR THAT THEY ARE SPONSORING US FOR THIS YEAR TOO! 

We could not do this without support like this - THANK YOU THE PODCAST HOST!

Want to help make this happen?

Fill in this sponsorship form

Sponsor us doooo!

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AND

Don’t forget to pitch us your live shows and live adverts, send us your trailers and enter our fabulous competitions!

Live show pitch form

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New show showcase pitch form

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Send us your trailer

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Live advert pitch form 

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Thank you!

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Hello!

Woah there hasn't been anything on the Quirky feed for a while - been so busy but oh my, here starteth a gentle deluge of things for hyping up THE PODFEST to go to this year - THE AUDIO DRAMA HUB PODFEST 2023!

Yes, along with Fiona Thraille, Karim Kronfli, and Michael Hudson, we are excited AF to bring you this year's amazing programme choc full of panels and workshops, competitions, a true chance to network,  and one of the best KEYNOTE SPEAKERS EVERrrr!

The full programme will be released very soon on our new website AUDIODRAMAHUB.COM made by our very own Karim THA LEDGE

Herein find details of comps you can enter - SFX/BREATH ONLY/ORIGINAL MUSIC and DASHINGLY QUIRKY LIVE!

Here are the links you need discussed in the show:

Live show pitch form

New show showcase pitch form

Send us your trailer

Live advert pitch form 

We also would love to have your show front and centre at the event - help us pay our panellists and workshop folks by sponsoring a banner - £25 to get your logo on those - deadline Oct 13th - and there's also a chance to get your logo on our LIVESTREAM too - yes we will be live streaming this year you lucky folks of afar!

Sponsor us!

Thanks so much and please do share this ep so other folks can join us!

HAPPY CREATING AND... come along to this year's ADHPODFEST to...

GET INSPIRED!


Sarah, Fiona, Karim and Michael
🌞

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Welcome
to
THE TOYMAKER
A chilling Christmas horror

By Stewart J Clark

A church.

Present day.

A confident young man - Michael -  takes to the confession box to tell all to THE PRIEST, but what secrets lie in the hearing and telling of such an...exhibitionist, spectacular  confession?

With the fantastic Fiona Thraille as THE PRIEST and Quirky's own Sarah Golding as MICHAEL, this promises to be a chilling, unnerving ride.

Listen

IF
YOU

DARE

Ages 16 and up
#ItsScary

TRIGGER WARNINGS:
PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS REFERENCE TO BODY HORROR MURDERS, PERIL AND SEWING OF BODY PARTS IS ALLUDED TO IN SOUND EFFECTS. SOMEONE IS IN PERIL IN A CONFINED SPACE AND UPSET WITH RISING ANXIETY BECAUSE OF BEING TRAPPED.

*****

'The acting is amazing. Totally amazing!'
Shannon K Perry of Oz9

*****

'Actually gave me chills'
Graz Richards of Audible Visions

*****

Stewart is a writer based near Scarborough and produces original works for stage and other media, and here are some links to his works - go give him some 5 star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads why dontcha! Hearty thanks to Stewart for giving us permission to make this fantastic horror script into chilling audio fiction.

Facebook: Stewart J. Clark: Writer  

Goodreads profile 

Amazon UK author page

Fiona Thraille can be found producing for DASHING ONIONS, WIRELESS THEATRE and DASHINGLY QUIRKY LIVE, and writes, edits, produces and wears al of the hats! She can be heard being astoundingly good in many many audio fiction shows including Perfect Retreat, Edict Zero, Pixie,  Anyone F'Coffee, Cyclone, Amelia Project, Phantomwise and oh so much more - find links to her works here!

Sarah loves to play with some experimental sound here and there  and would love any new scripts to play with - whether it be a two-hander for her and Fiona to play on or a whole group piece or monologue, feel free to send her your scripts with your production rates for the rights to make, produce and publish it with Quirky Voices. Please contact her on quirkyvoices@gmail.com 

AND OH, IF YOU DO REVIEWS...WE'D LOVE ONE! 

Thank you. 

Thank you to Quirky Voices Patreons who are consistently amazing in their support of quirky works. Join them to get eps earlier than others and new scripts and voice acting course discounts and updates from Sarah In a...Sarah-like way!

Sarah Golding Linktree

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING

Go binge more Quirky works like

ROSA KRANZ AND GILDA STERN AREN'T DEAD
By Emily CA Snyder

and

BOGEYS AND GHOULIES

AND
Learn

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Ghost in space is a part Sci Fi part comedy part horror where in GHOST INNN SPAAAACE (Sarah Golding) encounters the hapless Astronaut Dave (Robert Cudmore) and the power hungry errant Cyber-human-hybrid Doreen Devillo (Fiona Thraille)  in a rocket ship carrying out her evil plans to take over the mooooonnn....

This is the 2nd offering for this year's BOGEYS AND GHOULIES shows - make sure you enjoy them all!

Thank you to JOHN BARTMANN for his fantastic music - find more here....

And to my amazing cast - had mucho fun making this one!

Please do send us ay pictures of moments you have loved or...what happened next or before or a gazillion years in the future.... I would LOVE to hear from you - or...ping us a review!

Thank you for listening = pass it on!

Trigger Warnings include
Ghost innn spaaace, peril, crashing rockets, THE VASTNESS OF SPACE, People in peril, crashing ships and cars and hybrid-human cyborgs banging into things, being in accidents, inner head holograms, maniacal behaviours, gaffer tape, lack of mixing prowess😬😎😂🎉..

HAPPY HALLOWEEENNNN

Sarah🎉
QuirkyVoices@gmail.com

Fionas Twitter
Roberts Twitter
Quirky Voices Twitter

Sound effects were either made by me or are from FREESOUND.ORG on a creative commons license. 

WOOHOOO

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Hello #KidsHorror Lovers👻☠️🧟🧛🏼‍♂️🧙🎃

HAPPYYY HALLOWEEN!

Here's a (quite scary) horror story for those 10+ (or parents, guardians ...listen first!) all about

                 THE HAT MAN.

It is Inspired by a nightmare my daughter had when she was 2 ..ish ...and all she could say was....'Man....Man...Hat man....Black Hat' - it terrified me that she thought a man in a black hat had been staring at her for half the night as she was paralysed in her cot. And so. This story...brewed.

Trigger warnings include...
Peril, Danger of soul being taken, Children being naughty. Child in peril, Paralysis, Whimpering child, Stair Stomping, Gurgling Tummy, Threat from an entity, scary deep voices (manipulated pitch).

The narrator is speaking as if in the house in which this story takes place. Shut your eyes...be brave, and see....the story...

The message to be kind is universal. Maybe do something kind every day to keep the HAT MAN away....

And it goes without saying that

I hope none of you get a visit from

THE HAT MAN

Feel free to review these BOGEYS AND GHOULIES STORIES or ping any artwork or your own stories inspired by this one to

QUIRKYVOICES@GMAIL.COM

All Sound effects were made by me or are Creative Commons 0 from free sound.org.

Thank you for listening

MAKE SURE YOU ALSO ENJOY SEASON 4 SHOWS
Ghost innn spppaaaace with Fiona Thraille and Robert Cudmore
and
PART 2 - A YEAR IN THE MAKING😬 OFFF
The Ghost who lost their scare.🌏🌍🌎💙👻👻👻👻

STAY SAFE
BE KIND
MAKE STUFF

Sarah☠️👻💙

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DARE YOU GET PAST THE INTRO

To enjoy

This kids gentle comedy horror story - THE GHOST WHO LOST THER SCARE???

Join the Screamdents at the Great British Scare Sghoul on an original adventure by Sarah Golding (28% scary) AND NARRATED BY Fiona Thraille (30% scary😎)  with BOO! The scariest ghost in the sghoul(98% scary)  - summoned to the Giant Head Teacher's (Karim Kronfli )(48% scary)  office (in total darkness, no...candles...allowed) After being talked to by the coolest meanest Head Ghoul (Meabh De Brun) (33% scary) and her demons, Red, and Blue, Boo whizzes on their way to ....possibly try to scare the Head Teacher. On the way, Boo's darker, naughtier conscience - Blue Boo - speaks, and....they fall out, and the Blue Boo  leaves...to cause chaos in another part of the sghoul.

There's a dark dark blue bluer than blue itself (SCREAM) vortex that has started to swallow up the school - and all of year 5, the prefects and...everyone - and Boo knows who exactly is to blame.

Can Boo work with all their other inner thoughts  - Happy, Energetic, Tired, Silly and Loving to save the school, and ..themselves? Listen and...FIND OUT!

Thanks to Fiona, Karim and Meabh for jumping on to play such wonderful fun characters, and to the students - screamdents? of St Clement Danes School for doing some of the walla and crowd scenes. Such fffunnnnn!

Find links to all the folks below and feel free to help me make more of this kind of fun by contributing to the Quirky Voices ko-fi here or....feel free to become a valued Patreon, They get shows first and new scripts and sometimes even a song and....mmmmore!

Thanks to THE FABULOUS John Bartmann for sharing one of his glorious musical creations - check out his wares and utlislise his music for your audio drama by visiting his website here. Listen to his HOW I MAKE MUSIC podcast, or become a Patreon to support his awesome do!

WE WOULD LOVE to have your artwork inspired by any of the characters - the giant and their office, the head ghoul and her demons, the narrator  - all of the Boo's!! The first years fainting, Blue Boo in the - you know what its called -  (scream) vortex attaching folks to the far away growing glowing blue walls of doom, the school custard evaporating, the suitcase opening - oh wait - thats in part two!!

Feel free to send us any - or even your own thoughts or scripts  on what happened next or before or inbetween (What DID the head teacher chat to the Head Ghoul about in the corridor existing outside of time and space that was a plot hole that was never explained?) Anything you send may well be displayed on the Quirky Voices Website.

HUZZAHS

Happy listening!
Please share, rate and review

Sarahx


M
VOICE ACTOR LINKS
Fiona Thraille WEBSITE
Meabh De Brun WEBSITE
Karim Kronfli WEBSITE AND MOOORE



PART TWO OUT...SOOOONNNNNN

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A short horror story full of tension and ....horror for the BOGIES AND GHOULIES short season - Season three......by Sarah Golding

• Tom, a young boy cannot get to sleep - he hears something...someone breathing in his bedroom late at night. His mum, trying to get her work done tries to comfort him. 

• Tom convinces her to look for the 'monster'. 

• What she finds will shock her to her very core.
  
  Inspired by the two sentence horror story - Daddy, theres a boy under my bed,

 I wrote this to scare the most....hardy and brave of horror loving souls to listen to. For the over tens - and parents/guardians/carers...do listen first - it might be...too...scary MWAHAHAHAHAAA

LISTEN
   IF
     YOU

       DAAAAARRRRRE!

All voices, music, editing and script by Sarah Golding - some sound effects from Freesound.org on Creative Commons licenses or made by Sarah!

Hope you enjoy this first...offering - more to come from Quirky Voices - keep an eye on the feed!

Please do share, rate and review - we'd love more ears on our works, and hope other folks enjoy our love of storytelling too! If you would like to help Sarah make more groovy audio fun, please feel free to become a Patreon of audio loving joy - there's so much great stuff coming from Quirky voices as Patreon exclusives....early listens, and new....crazy...scripts! Join us ...and HUZZAHS FOR ALLL CURRENT AMAZING PATREONS OF AUDIO LOVING JOY, without whom, this pod would not have released! 

HAPPY LISTENING
and

HAPPYYY HALLOWEEENNNN


Sarahx👻☠️🎃🎉

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Hello!

I have some exciting new content to share with you! Yes! Today we introduce you to ANOTHER GROOVY AF...

QUIRKY VOICES SHOWCASE - NEW VOICE ACTING STUDENTS OF AUDIO JOY

INTRODUCING JOEY HERNANDEZ
in
- EXISTENTIAL DREAD - GORY MONSTER HORROR -

Here launcheth the first of 8 groovy pieces as a showcase vehicle for some of my brilliant last cohort of voice actors from the latest Quirky Voices Voice Acting Course of Audio Joy!

Today I release 6 of these wonderous students out into the world to be cast in allll of the things! Every one of them has been a pleasure to work with, and would be very much at home in any genre of audio drama!

This piece features the fantastic talents of Joey Hernandez  - enjoy the warm, happy, boy-next door vibes he creates in Dane, a fiancee about to find out more than he bargained for from his intended bride....

CAST
DANE - Joey Hernandez
JAMIE - Taylor Garcia Van-Biljon
POLICE OFFICER - Justin Price

Please be warned this does contain a monster attacking and eating someone lovely, and someone witnessing their own demise. No melons were harmed during the making of this, but some were eaten afterwards.

Please find links to finding and contacting Joey below, and....employ him doo!

Massive thanks also to John Bartmann for his wonderful music for all of these pieces - you can find his works here, and also become a Patreon for his works here, And here is a link to his fabulous podcast with interviews with other amazing musicians working in audio drama - How I Make Music!

All sounds were either made by Sarah, from her growing libraries or found from freesound.org on Creative Commons 0 licenses.

Enjoy!

I wrote these pieces bespoke for the students to showcase their wares. I truly hope you enjoy dipping in, and, feel free to tweet out your fave performances or let me know on @quirkyvoices or email me on quirkyvoices@gmail.com. I would LOVE to hear from you - and if you feel so inclined - leave a review for these Groovy AF students!

I would love your support to help make more of these groovy workshops - and Quirky Voices VA courses. If you are an audio creative and would like to sponsor a space on a future course for a budding VA of colour, or from a marginalised community, please email and let me know - and thank you! I also try to help by varying the price structure for certain students depending on circumstance, and also offer a sponsored Quirky place FOR FREEEE!

New courses start in NOVEMBER! Keep an eye on QUIRKYVOICES@WEEBLY.COM for more information, or click here to find details on the NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 course.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

Casting directors, take note of the talent coming out of these shows doooo!
EMPLOY THEM ALL.....!


Sarahxx

LINKS TO JOEY'S SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: @IJUSTCRITFAILED

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/QuirkyVoices)

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Feel free to review and of the shows herein, and if you want to support Quirky Voices works, become a Patreon! You get early works and earlybird eps and discounts for any courses.....

HAPPY CREATING!

Hello!

I have some exciting new content to share with you! Yes! Today we introduce you to...

QUIRKY VOICES SHOWCASE - VOICE ACTING STUDENTS OF AUDIO JOY

INTRODUCING ASHLEY BAKER !
in
- DETECTIVE DUCK - A WHODUNNIT SOLVED -

Here launcheth the first of 8 groovy pieces as a showcase vehicle for some of my brilliant last cohort of voice actors from the latest Quirky Voices Voice Acting Course of Audio Joy!

Today I release 6 of these wonderous students out into the world to be cast in allll of the things! Every one of them has been a pleasure to work with, and would be very much at home in any genre of audio drama!

This piece features the fantastic talents of Ash Baker  - enjoy the masterful, melodramatic play-on-words panache of Ash's revealing detective, in this gently comic whodunnit reveal.

CAST
DETECTIVE DUCK - Ashley Baker
THOSE PRESENT  - Kayla Rivera, Taylor Garcia Van Biljon, Justin Price, Jeff Taylor

Please be warned this solved whodunnit contains melodrama and maniacal laughter, and revealed revenge - death by poisoning.


Please find links to finding and contacting Ashley below, and....employ him doo!

Massive thanks also to John Bartmann for his wonderful music for all of these pieces - you can find his works here, and also become a Patreon for his works here, And here is a link to his fabulous podcast with interviews with other amazing musicians working in audio drama - How I Make Music!

All sounds were either made by Sarah, from her growing libraries or found from freesound.org on Creative Commons 0 licenses.

Enjoy!

I wrote these pieces bespoke for the students to showcase their wares. I truly hope you enjoy dipping in, and, feel free to tweet out your fave performances or let me know on @quirkyvoices or email me on quirkyvoices@gmail.com. I would LOVE to hear from you - and if you feel so inclined - leave a review for these Groovy AF students!

I would love your support to help make more of these groovy workshops - and Quirky Voices VA courses. If you are an audio creative and would like to sponsor a space on a future course for a budding VA of colour, or from a marginalised community, please email and let me know - and thank you! I also try to help by varying the price structure for certain students depending on circumstance, and also offer a sponsored Quirky place FOR FREEEE!

New courses start in NOVEMBER! Keep an eye on QUIRKYVOICES@WEEBLY.COM for more information, or click here to find details on the NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 course.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

Casting directors, take note of the talent coming out of these shows doooo!
EMPLOY THEM ALL.....!


Sarahxx

LINKS TO ASHLEY'S SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: @MrAshBaker

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/QuirkyVoices)

Ping Sarah on @QUIRKYVOICES or send a message to quirkyvoices@gmail.com

Feel free to review and of the shows herein, and if you want to support Quirky Voices works, become a Patreon! You get early works and earlybird eps and discounts for any courses.....

HAPPY CREATING!