B7 Media - Audio Drama

27/06/2024

Exclusive to Audioteria, the audiobook of Dave Gibbons “Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography” is now available and read by the man himself! Anecdotes are listed individually, so listen in order or pick and choose. Look out for bonus stories too! https://audioteria.com/product/confabulation/

14/04/2024

07/02/2024

Check out this Special Edition of New York Festivals Content POV with B7 Media producers’ Helen Quigley and Andrew Mark Sewell as they share the backstory on the launch of their drama platform Audioteria and offer a deep dive into the future of audio drama storytelling. https://radio.newyorkfestivals.com/media/Interior/99d0b9a4-95fe-4f63-8c9b-df4722a46b0c

07/02/2024

We’re proud to introduce two distinguished industry leaders who have joined our Grand Jury this year. As Gold Trophy winners, their insights and experience are invaluable to our panel:

🎧 Helen Quigley, Producer/Director at B7 Productions & Audioteria.
🔊 Benoit Bories, renowned Sound Artist with Faïdos Sonore/Créations sonores.

24/01/2024

The London Book Fair have announced their inaugural Audio Alley, a dedicated space for audio exhibitors, which will feature solution and service providers within the audio sector. A series of aligned events will take place in the Tech Theatre, with conversations around audiobooks and audio publishing.

We’re delighted to confirm that friends and colleagues of B7 Media and Audioteria will be doing a seminar on the subject of - Dramatising Books for Audio. The seminar takes place on 14 March, 14:15 - 14:45.

The panel includes multi award-winning audio, television and film writer’s Ayeesha Menon and Richard Kurti, along with audio drama producer, Helen Quigley and producer/director, Andrew Mark Sewell.

“Dramatising Books for Audio”

An expert panel of award-winning audio drama writers, producers and directors will discuss what makes a successful book dramatization. Adapting books beyond a simple narrative audiobook into a performed, sound designed and orchestrated immersive story, creates a cinematic experience in the listener’s imagination. The only thing a fully
realised audio drama doesn’t provide are the pictures!

https://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/whats-on/seminar-programme/programme/session-details.3614.214528.dramatising-books-for-audio.html

21/12/2023

"Theatre of the Damned" made its exclusive bloody debut on Audioteria but we're now spattering it across other platforms!

If Bandcamp is your thing, you can now find it here:
https://b7media.bandcamp.com/album/theatre-of-the-damned

12/12/2023

Looking for some last minute gift ideas for Xmas. If you enjoy a good story then step this way… www.B7Media.com

19/11/2023

"I always fancied myself as a radio star. However this ends, it’s one off the bucket list." We only have a few Dan Dare box sets left, so grab them whilst you can. Spaceship Away! Vol 1 > https://www.b7media.com/product/dan-dare-vol-1-b7-media/ Vol 2 > https://www.b7media.com/product/dan-dare-vol-2-box-set/

19/11/2023

Pop over to Audioteria for some fantastic Black Friday discounts. And don’t forget to enter the magic code < XVKYFGHJ > at checkout to get your 25% discount! https://audioteria.com

30/10/2023

Available to download on Audioteria this All Hallows’ Eve. Bafflegab Productions

Alison Mundy is back… in a brand-new Afterlife audiobook for Halloween!

Lesley Sharp (Scott and Bailey, The Full Monty) returns to the role she created in the acclaimed, award-winning ITV paranormal drama series Afterlife, in an all-new story written by the original creator of the series, Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch, The Awakening).

Writer Stephen Volk says: “I’ve been wondering what happened to Alison Mundy ever since Afterlife ended in 2006. Was she still operating as a spirit medium in Bristol? How was she coping after the death of Robert? Lockdown provided a space for me to explore some of the answers. Naturally I wanted Lesley Sharp’s approval as she had made the character unforgettable. Luckily, she loved it, and offered to record the story, which the brilliant Bafflegab have realised with their trademark expertise. I’m utterly thrilled to bring Afterlife back to life. I hope it has all the chills and emotion of the original.”

Pre-order it now exclusively from Bafflegab and Audioteria - links below

25/10/2023

What can you hear on Audioteria?! Here's just a taster of some of the great audio dramas from the likes of , Bafflegab Productions http://audioteria.com

23/10/2023

If you missed episode 4 of “Mahabharata Now” you can now catch the most recent episodes on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001r2py

Listen to the latest episodes of Mahabharata Now on BBC Sounds

20/10/2023

Episode 4 of our epic saga MAHABHARATA NOW airs on BBC Radio 4, Sunday (22 Oct) and catch the previous episode on https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rql8

Karthik sets a trap designed to prevent Yash and Padma fulfilling the terms of their Manchester exile, while Shaks begins to question his allegiance to Dhruv.

Cast:

Director: Writers: Original Music: Sound Design: Producers:

14/10/2023

The epic saga MAHABHARATA NOW continues on BBC Radio 4 (15 & 22 Oct). Yash and Padma arrive in Manchester to begin their four year exile. It's a profound shock. Now they are an ethnic minority in a country where race is an increasingly charged issue and, with no money, they are powerless to insulate themselves from trouble. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rgxs

Cast:

Director: Writers: Original Music: Sound Design: Producers:

09/09/2023

Gopi is at it again at 3pm … B7 Media

As family rifts pull the empire apart, the only way out is through humiliation and exile.

06/09/2023

Have you checked out audio drama 'Theatre of the Damned' on Audioteria yet? If not, here's a snippet of the action - or lack of it, as Delorde and the Grand Guignol's actors bicker their way through the first rehearsal for his grisly new play.

https://audioteria.com/product/theatre-of-the-damned/

03/09/2023

Did you miss episode 1 of Mahabharata Now? Gopi has it sorted since for the next 30-days you can catch up with the family saga on BBC Sounds >

An oligarch’s sudden death plunges his family and its vast business empire into chaos.

02/09/2023

Hey Gopi! Remind me to listen to ‘Mahabharata Now’ on today (Sat, 2 Sept) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014fxp

An oligarch’s sudden death plunges his family and its vast business empire into chaos.

02/08/2023

Brand new audio drama "Theatre of the Damned" is now available to buy and download from new platform Audioteria, which is intended to be a purchase platform primarily for independent audio drama and enhanced audiobooks.

'Theatre of the Damned' is a B7 Media co-production with indie theatre company Metal Rabbit Productions. It’s planned as a series, but we wanted to make sure it worked as a standalone story in its own right as well as serving as a proof of concept.

Set in the grim and gaudy Paris of the 1920s, "Theatre of the Damned" draws inspiration from the real-life Theatre du Grand Guignol. It explores the blood-curdling depths to which struggling immigrant theatre producer, Camille Choisy (Amir El-Masry), penniless Parisian playwright, Andre De Lorde (Sam Crane) and aspiring actress, Paula Maxa (Kelly Burke), will stoop in order to satiate their audience’s blood-thirsty appetite and gain Faustian profits.

Unusually for an audio drama, and as a result of having a theatre company as partners, we had the luxury of a rehearsal day, which was a great opportunity for the cast to meet and work with each other before heading into the studio.

Theatre of the Damned was recorded over two days with the lovely people at The Soundhouse Ltd in Acton, where we had a lot of grisly fun. The second day held a surprise: our Production Assistant casually mentioned that there was a young bird caged under the wastepaper basket in the corner of the studio. One of our actors with a gift for animal whispering had rescued it outside and decided to look after it between his scenes. Given the themes of the script, it fortunately survived till lunchtime, when it was released to loiter by the picnic tables looking for crumbs.

During our two days of recording, we staged fights, did some “bad” acting, ate fingers, attended executions, vomited and screamed. There was LOTS of screaming.

'Theatre of the Damned' is available now and contains scenes of gore, horror and strong language – not for one to listen to while eating lunch!

Head to Audioteria to buy and download. The site is paired with its own app where you can keep all your Audioteria content – or you can play on whatever device you prefer.

https://audioteria.com/product/theatre-of-the-damned/

29/05/2023

At next weekend’s Portsmouth Comic Con, B7 Media’s multi-award winning producer/director team Helen Quigley and Andrew Mark Sewell (Blake’s 7, Dan Dare, I Robot, The Effect) will be joined by New York Times bestselling comic writer Cavan Scott (‘Doctor Who’ and Star Wars’) and Alec Worley ('Warhammer' and '2000 AD') to discuss what it takes to write a successful audio drama.

27/03/2023

"It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands." Good news alert. If you pre-ordered Hancock: The Lad Himself we are beginning to despatch the books. Still not tempted? Step this way... https://www.b7media.com/product/hancock-the-lad-himself-hardback/

18/03/2023

Trailer dropping on Monday! Inspired by shocking true events, “Theatre of the Damned” tells the story of the birth of the Grand Guignol in 1920s Paris. .media

27/02/2023

Meet Madame Douska . Raised in Russian aristocracy. Cynical, charming, a survivor who’ll kiss you and stab you in the back at the same time. There is always an angle for Madame Douska. “Theatre of the Damned” tells the story of the birth of the Grand Guignol in 1920s Paris.

20/02/2023

Meet Berenice . She is the voice of privilege. An entitled and well-connected young woman who’s not afraid to express her strong opinions with articulate savagery. A powerful ally, but a fearsome and deadly enemy. “Theatre of the Damned” tells the story of the birth of the Grand Guignol in 1920s Paris.

19/02/2023

The story of the legendary comedian as a graphic novel, told not without a few interruptions from The Lad Himself!

07/12/2022

A Mekon isn’t just for Christmas! Grab these special DAN DARE full-cast audio adventures, signed by series director Andrew Mark Sewell. Vol 1 https://www.b7media.com/product/dan-dare-vol-1-b7-media/. Vol 2 https://www.b7media.com/product/dan-dare-vol-2-box-set/. Reduced from £30 to £20. Limited stock available.

28/11/2022

You can also read an interview with director Andrew Mark Sewell discussing the challenges of piloting the all-new Audio Adventures! http://downthetubes.net/?p=99616 Or listen to Richard Hollingham’s superb doc about the series “21st Century Spaceman” https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000cll3

28/11/2022

Fancy some cosmic listening? You can still catch-up with our Dan Dan audio adventures on ⁦ ⁩ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000cll5. You can also buy the complete “director’s cut” series from http://DanDareAudio.com or ⁦https://www.bigfinish.com/hubs/v/dan-dare

Over six episodes the cast includes


Voyage to Venus was written by and ; The Red Moon Mystery by ; Marooned on Mercury by ; Reign of the Robots by ; Operation Saturn by ; Prisoners of Space by ; sound designers , original music by ; series producer/director