Untrue Stories

29/10/2022

This is the kind of audience feedback I live for.

[Image description: screenshot of a tweet from Wireland Ranch with a link to the Untrue Stories Halloween special, reading: "Robin nailed HP Lovecraft's bitch ass."]

29/10/2022

NEW EPISODE! It's our Halloween special—a crossover with bitter karella's Hugo-nominated twitter microfiction The Midnight Pals. George Orwell and H. G. Wells, on a quest to resurrect a Morlock for reasons that are unlikely to become clear at the moment, visit 1920s Rhode Island where they trespass in the house of a certain squid-obsessed horror writer, narrowly escape being axe-murdered, and then stumble into a weird metaphysical forest inhabited by dead horror writers. Will their campfire stories be enough to impress HP "whiny wimp with terrible opinions" Lovecraft, Mary "sweary goth chick" Shelley and Edgar Allan "adult in the room (relatively speaking)" Poe.

Listen at https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/midnight-pals-halloween-crossover, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Goodpods, or your podcatcher of choice. Share and Enjoy!

Untrue Stories is a comedy science fiction serial about the time travel adventures of H. G. Wells, George Orwell, and other classic science-fiction writers. We recently finished our first season of six episodes, which is also available as a single omnibus episode for easy bingeing. The Midnight Pals is a twitter account which reimagines living and dead horror writers as members of a campfire storytelling club in the style of cult teen anthology "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" They can be found on twitter at , and have just started crowdfunding for their third book.

Halloween special featuring bitter karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals

28/10/2022

Our Halloween crossover special with Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals drops TOMORROW, Saturday 29 October! Here's a teaser, in which George Orwell and H. G. Wells' campfire stories fail to impress H. P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley. Find all our episodes at https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Goodpods, or your favourite podcast site or app. (Contains swearing, because Mary Shelley.) Share and Enjoy!

18/10/2022

Announce! UNTRUE STORIES HALLOWEEN CROSSOVER WITH MIDNIGHT PALS! Trailer below!

Untrue Stories' first Halloween special, releasing Saturday 29 October, will be a crossover with bitter karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals.

H. G. Wells and George Orwell will sit around the campfire with Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and H. P. Lovecraft in a new, seasonally spooky, and entirely fabricated time travel escapade.

The Midnight Pals (twitter.com/midnight_pals) is a twitter microfiction account that posts dialogues between horror writers living and dead, imagined as members of a storytelling group that meets around a campfire in the style of teen horror anthology Are You Afraid of the Dark. It's made by the awesome and funny bitter karella, and part of me still can't believe she let me do this. This has been one of the most fun episodes to make so far, and I can't wait for you to hear it.

Listen to the trailer here: https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/midnight-pals-halloween-crossover-trailer

Preview of our Halloween crossover special with Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals

12/09/2022

Thanks to R**t Arora for a kind and thoughtful review. "If you’ve ever wanted to be in a room full of your favorite dead writers, then this podcast is for you."

https://rireviews.wordpress.com/2022/09/12/untrue-stories-podcast-review/

Summary: Authors try using time travel to fix the world’s problems, and accidentally make them worse.

07/09/2022

SEASON 1 OMNIBUS!
You can now download the entirety of Untrue Stories' first season as a single 102-minute "movie", with short music cues between episodes and a single set of credits at the end, for easy bingeing. Say goodbye to fumbling-about-skipping-theme-music misery! This includes all six main season 1 episodes, plus the three bonus mini-episodes, two of which have been edited into the continuity and the third is included as a post-credits scene. It also makes many improvements to audio that I haven't dared update the main episodes with (but will try at some point.)

George Orwell has rented a getaway cottage on a remote Scottish island to finish work on his groundbreaking novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unfortunately, he finds he's been double-booked with the last person he'd choose to take a holiday with—his annoying literary nemesis, H. G. Wells! An argument about the destiny of humanity and the right way to make a cup of tea escalates into an aeon-spanning adventure of time travel and political machination, as Orwell conspires with other classic dystopian science fiction authors to shape the world into the dark futures of their own books using Wells' time-travel technology.

Listen at the link below or on
- Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/complete-season-1-omnibus-the-adventures-of/id1631739039?i=1000578588487
- Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MdyASg9FzN2xEI5RZttlZ?si=ysRZb5GXSMu2Eu8Tt0Av7w
- Goodpods https://goodpods.com/episodes/23441524
- or all the usual podcast sites/apps
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https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/season-1-omnibus

A supercut of all season 1 episodes, for convenient bingeing.

03/09/2022

NEW EPISODE! THE SEASON FINALE!
In "The Wonderful Visit", Orwell, Wells and pals arrive back on Jura in 1948, and the mayhem comes to a crescendo as some unexpected guests arrive.

Listen at the link below or at
Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/6-the-wonderful-visit/id1631739039?i=1000578260372
Google https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9OT1drTWFIXw/episode/ODI2MWM1MTYtMTMxNi00ZjQxLTg4N2EtMmZiMTljMWZjNmQw
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Gqm3Gz97865lxFtoKYUm7
Podchaser https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/untrue-stories-4785579/episodes/6-the-wonderful-visit-148992957
Goodpods https://goodpods.com/episodes/23417005
or your usual podcast getting service. If you're not caught up, you can stream the whole season from all the same places.

https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/the-wonderful-visit

Orwell, Wells and their pals gather in 1948 for the astonishing season finale. Wells arrives back on the Isle of Jura with an uninvited guest, where things come to a head as even more time travelling science fiction writers arrive to interfere. CAST Robin Johnson as George Orwell Patrick Spragg as H...

29/08/2022

George Orwell explains to H. G. Wells why his cup of tea sucks, from episode 1 of Untrue Stories

25/08/2022

Hey hey, we're featured on Goodpods!

22/08/2022

NEW MINI-EPISODE!
As a pre-season-finale bonus episode, we bring you THE TELESCREEN PROGRAMME: NEWSPEAK PHRASEBOOK, an exclusive cross-reality broadcast from Orwell's world of 1984! Brush up on Newspeak, the official constructed language of Oceania, maked hardworkwise by top headsciencers to plusficient your speakfulness while decriming your think! LISTENING IS MANDATORY!

Listen at the web link below, or on
🍎 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-telescreen-programme-newspeak-phrasebook/id1631739039?i=1000576764298
🎚 Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9OT1drTWFIXw/episode/MGFmNzNkNjYtZDBhMi00YzcxLTgwMmYtOWYxMWQxN2U3OTE
🟢 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/5oNgzodIEtgGG5ObG5bWIO?si=a742c7a5475c4bbb&nd=1
🎙 Goodpods https://goodpods.app.link/PuqWJ3zrHsb
🟣Podchaser https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/untrue-stories-4785579/episodes/the-telescreen-programme-newsp-147816295
or your favourite podcast site/app

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/untrue-stories-4785579/episodes/the-telescreen-programme-newsp-147816295

The Telescreen Programme: Newspeak Phrasebook from Untrue Stories on Podchaser, aired Sunday, 21st August 2022. Brush up your Newspeak with a selection of typical scenes from Oceanian everyday life, with Oldspeak translation.As a bonus mini-episode, we bring you a telescreen programme from the worl....

07/08/2022

Aaay, we got a review from Sole Twin Talk! It's at 23:20 (after inclusion of our one-minute trailer).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wavtu5_tMAw or the usual podcast platforms.

"Very well written and so funny... I suspect this is the kind of show that you need to listen to at least three episodes to get the full effect." You heard the lady!

(She also accidentally says Orson Welles instead of HG Wells, so I might have to write a mini-episode with Orson now...)

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of Sole Twin Audios! I discuss what STA is up to now, pay tribute to Pat Carroll, interview James C. Taylor (Creator of "M...

06/08/2022

NEW EPISODE!
In season 1 episode 5, "Man Becomes a Different Animal", H. G. Wells has narrowly escaped Orwell's dystopian world of "1984"—only for his malfunctioning time-bicycle to crash in the distant and even more bizarre future that he will eventually chronicle in "The Time Machine". Civilisation has fallen and humanity as we know it is extinct, replaced by pale blue super-evolved subterranean cannibals. How can he hope to find a bike repair shop around here?

https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/man-becomes-a-different-animal

or all good podcast sites/apps, including but not limited to
🍎Apple/iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-man-becomes-a-different-animal/id1631739039?i=1000575221030
🟢Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/7wWAm691kkKXua90exkFxa?si=5b80caad368c4a6e
🟡 Goodpods https://goodpods.app.link/Nxjtp9p7gsb
⚪️ Podchaser https://podchaser.com/podcasts/untrue-stories-4785579/episodes/5-man-becomes-a-different-anim-146593073

There's a new one-minute trailer (as well as an old two-minute one) that you can find from any of those links, if you want a quick taster.

UNTRUE STORIES is a surreal metafictional science fiction serial following classic SF authors on astonishing, thrilling and entirely untrue adventures through time and worlds. It began when George Orwell accidentally booked a getaway cottage with his literary nemesis H. G. Wells, where they had an argument about tea and things sort of escalated from there. It was originally going to be an anthology series, but the characters decided it isn't.

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31/07/2022

NEW MINI-EPISODE!

"Exile to Hell" is a 7-minute mini-episode, in which Big Brother makes a visit to the Inner Hebrides Joycamp to pay his personal respects to a special prisoner.

The mini-episode takes place somewhere between the events of episode 4, "How a Nation is Exploited". If you're new to Untrue Stories, you could probably enjoy it on its own as a taster, although it does contain spoilers for the foregoing episodes.

https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/mini-episode-exile-to-hell
or find it on your favourite podcast site/app.

If you like it, we're new and could really do with recommendations and ratings on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Goodpods, or your favourite site/app. Share and Enjoy!

Big Brother makes an unofficial visit to Inner Hebrides joycamp to talk with a special prisoner.

21/07/2022

George Orwell is sick to heck of internet weirdos confusing him with evil alternate-universe George Orwell

20/07/2022

H. G. Wells shows George Orwell his invention, from episode 1. Orwell has rented a Scottish island getaway cottage to complete work on his novel. Unfortunately, he's been double-booked with the very last speculative fiction author he'd choose to go on holiday with. That mayhem isn't gonna know what ensued it!

Find "Untrue Stories" from our pinned post, or on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you find podcasts. If you enjoy it, please leave us a rating — we're new and need 'em. Share and Enjoy!