Podcasts | These Fantastic Worlds

The fateful, dystopian tale of a painter and the power of art … Surreal Revolution. “The artist Abigor shuffled in a long queue for bread. The tall towers that surrounded her in the Central City Dist…

A detective is called to a series of strange deaths at the furthest City in the Universe. But all is not what it seems… Feathers. “They’ve found another one boss!” The detective recently assigned to …

Can Aadya, mother of the long-abandoned Cyrus outwit the Quantum Police and find her son? Only time will tell… Quantum Police. Aadya had lost count of the number of time jumps, she’d taken to be here…

There’s a fine line between prophecy and manipulation in the creation of Empire in the star system of Alpha Centauri… Prophecy. In the far future, on a distant planet in the twin star system of Alpha…

What are the boundaries between being human and a robot? A new tale of time and space… Reclassify. It is 2282 of the Common Era, on the planet Earth. Visitors from other star systems measure time usi…

The old folk tale of a young man and a beautiful woman in need of rescue… The Rescue Always, I think back, and wonder how I ended up here, at the lake in the valley. I was named Hillar by my proud pa…

The view at the front of the train from Mombasa to Kimbusa offers the twin tracks of life and death… Twin Tracks It is often said that the good and the bad within us fight for supremacy, but over the…

The strong, the weak and the robots, who shall inherit the earth? A new tale from the not-so-far future… The Strong “Once upon a time there was a great land divided between the strong and the weak. T…

A session between a psychotherapist and her patient takes a strange turn, as she digs deep into the unconscious mind of humankind… Genetic Memory In a loft apartment in Cadiz, its tall, majestic wind…

A tale about identity and consciousness from a near future when robots and travel are commonplace. I Am What I Am The train rattles above the tracks, hovering aloft ancient steels no longer used exce…

An exploration of religion, mysticism, injustice and sanctuary, on a distant planet in a distant future. Sacred Words On a world in the far future a woman, Jaha, flees into the temple. The commotion …

I look up into the stars with the gentle sounds of breathing next to me, so why does it make me feel so sad? Guardian Angel I It is dark in this pre-Dawn, with distant light filtering through, mingli…

From ancient Sumeria, a tale about the eternal Lapis Lazuli, a tomb and a thief, an unbeliever whose only god is greed… Lapis Lazuli It is the dead of night, some hundred years after the great floods…

A tale of identity, entanglement, time and a voice that’s not quite what it seems to be Different I have always felt different. Disorientation the doctor had called it, although he was clearly puzzle…

A new plane of existence looms over planet Earth forcing humankind to struggle with identity, purpose and its own place in the universe… New Dimensions Since it arrived, hovering across the entire pl…

There’s only one way to stop the robots in their tracks… Infinity Trap In the distant future, on a planet once called Kepler 62e long-colonised as part of by Earth’s original evacuation, and renamed …

In the far future on Titan, Saturn’s resource-rich moon, comes a tale of a family feud, a cherry orchard, and the death of a father… Cherry Blossom The breeze flutters at the petals on the cherry blo…

A tear in the wallpaper brings the past and the present together as a man lies struggling with his last breath… The Tear A rip in the bright, floral wallpaper, a fold that once fell listlessly, is no…

In the far future, the robot shepherd of the last server farm on Planet Earth begins to question his existence… Shepherd It is 3880 of the Common Era and I am the last Robot Shepherd on Earth. There …

In the far future the trade in body parts, multiple body parts, is a way of life for those who live by The Code. The Code New Year’s Day, 3050 of the Common Era. Everyone’s having a party, but the wo…