Alternative Stories and Fake Realities
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities is the anthology podcast of the spoken-word audio production company Alternative Stories.
Working with poets, novelists and dramatists we tell stories and share the work of writers including radio plays, short fiction, book excerpts and writer interviews. We also explore the things that inspire writers including folklore and mythology as well as sharing content from other podcasts produced by Alternative Stories.
With almost 150 podcasts to choose from we hope there'll be something here to enjoy if you're into literature, books and the spoken arts.
Please check out our website https://alternativestories.com/
Alternative Stories and Fake Realities
Raven
This edition is called Raven. It features the short story "The Raven's Call" by Charis McRoberts and a preview of The Seeing Trees, our forthcoming audio drama which features a raven. This podcast also includes interviews with Charis McRoberts, Kaitlin Felix author of "The Seeing Trees" and Amy Forrest.
The Raven's Call is written and performed by Charis McRoberts with music by Chris Gregory. It is reproduced with Charis' permission.
The Seeing Trees trailer features the voices of Lewie Watson, Tiffany Clare, Charlie Richards and Amy Forrest. The Seeing Trees is written by Kaitlin Felix and will be published on the podcast on Friday 4th June. You can also hear a short interview with Kaitlin
We also reproduce an interview from the BBC's Podcast Radio Hour in which Amy Forrest talks about the ways in which Alternative Stories has adapted to the Covid 19 pandemic. This is the full version of a piece which was truncated for the BBC broadcast.
Sound design, music and mixing are by Chris Gregory. Music is published by Scared Crow Music.
The presenter in this edition of the podcast is Kelli Winkler
Find out more about Charis McRoberts by following her on social media where she posts as https://twitter.com/CharisMcRoberts
Find out more about Kaitlin Felix by following her on twitter https://twitter.com/KatiGirl90 and at her website https://katifelix.com/
You can follow Amy Forrest on Twitter https://twitter.com/amyforrest26
Join us for The Seeing Trees, the full audio drama in our next podcast.