Podcasts | These Fantastic Worlds

The tenth of Ten Norse Myths. Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, the destruction of the worlds, the dramatic death duel of light and dark...

The end of the world had been prophesied from…

The ninth Norse Myth of ten, brings us to the death of Baldur, one of the most famous laments of Viking legend...

To Odin and Frigga were born twin sons as dissimilar in charac…

This eighth Norse Myth of ten, tells of the dynasty of the Volsungs, the heroes of the North, the family of Sigurd, Sigmund and Sigi, born of Odin...

The story of the Vo…

In this, the seventh Norse Myth of ten, the mighty sword of the Viking God Tyr grants victory and death in equal measure across great empires...

Tyr, Tiu, or…

This sixth Norse Myth is the tale of Heimdall, the Guardian of the Rainbow Bridge, his adventures with the people of Midgard, and his battle with Loki...

Heimdall was called th…

This fifth Norse Myth is the last tale of Loki, not the charming, trickster of the Marvel Universe, but the dark God of the Vikings Age...

Besides the hideous giant Utgard-Loki…

The fourth of ten Norse myths tells of the story of the Thor and how he gained his hammer through the wicked machinations of the mischievous Loki.

Thor was one of the twelve pri…

The third of ten Norse myths tells of the story of the Valkyrie, Odin's shield maidens who bring the fallen heroes of battle to the everlasting rewards of Valhalla.

Odin’s special atte…

The second of ten Norse myths tells of Odin and Frigga in Valhalla in Asgard, and their sons Thor, Balder and the first gods of the Vikings...

Odin was the son of Bor, an…

The first of ten Norse myths that cover Odin, Loki, Thor and more, we begin, fittingly, with the creation of the universe as seen through the eyes of the Vikings...

In…

Continuing from Machines Discarded Part One. Past and present churn together as the dark tale of discarded machines opens out to the future of humankind and the long shadow of primordial dread…

In a world that’s turned against itself, and destroyed all thinking machines Karima stumbles across a robot, and is followed in the dark…

Today she discovered a disc…

A lonely young man who overcomes his debilitating illness by reading, endless reading until one day his perspective is altered radically…

I first saw the words written in a book inherited …

From the far future comes a story within a story, of the dangers of believing without questioning, of lies that become truths…

Some time in the far future there is a great Bazaar t…

A tale of an ancient spirit, a ruined planet, of loss and grief, but hope renewed in the Green Man...

I remember the berry. It has a greenish, red hue. I’m not sure what it is except…

A dark tale of obsession, psychological terror, a mansion, a sculptor and a curious friend.

“But he loves me!” Josephine whispered, leaning in to her friend who had travelled up from the…

Welcome to a tale that plays with relativity, quantum probability and our experience of Time: a moment, a special event when everything changes.

The time is now. And everything is about t…

In a huge white warehouse, the robots have survived the near extinction of humankind. But who are they looking at? And why?

In the late 21st Century robots learned to think…

A tale of a post-apocalyptic flight into space as Humanity tries to forge a future, and define it’s own identity… Clone. In the far distant future, after the Last Robot War, humanity splintered acros…

Two bodies, two graves, the past and the present, the new and the ancient, a tale of ritual, renewal and uncertainty… Bodies. Every year, at this time, I return to this beautiful, painful place. The …