Uneasy Listening - a brand new weird horror comedy audio drama with a distinctly Northern accent
Uneasy Listening is a brand new weird horror comedy audio drama with a distinctly Northern accent. Here, SJ Bradley, the award-winning writer from Leeds, tells us more about her latest venture.
The first episode, I See Something, is out now all podcast platforms. This bold new supernatural comedy follows bride-to-be Donna as she seeks advice from seafront psychic Madame Jet on the eve of her fourth wedding. But Donna gets more than she bargained for, when parts of her past that she’d rather keep hidden are revealed through the reading…
Uneasy Listening has been supported by local funders Leeds City Council's Leeds Cultural Investment Programme, Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, and Slung Low theatre company.
If you’re a fan of shows like Uncanny, Inside No. 9, or Tales of the Unexpected, you’ll enjoy Uneasy Listening. The first episode I See Something is available to download from all podcast platforms now, and will be followed by the next episode, Waymakers, and after that, the third episode, Pipistrelle, Pipistrelle will follow. Pipistrelle, Pipistrelle, follows two strangers as they descend into a disused railway arch to count bats, and fear there might be an unexpected guest waiting to greet them.
Each episode is about something different, but all are linked by a sense of the unexpected and strange.
Before being recorded, each is shown before a live audience at a rehearsed reading. Being able to show the episodes in front of an audience has been so valuable. If the audience aren’t laughing at the jokes, or if there’s something they don’t understand, I can make little adjustments to the script to improve the show. That way, by the time we come to record it, it’s a lot funnier and makes more sense.
SJ Bradley is the winner of a K Blundell Trust Award and a Saboteur Award for her work as editor on Remembering Oluwale (Valley Press, 2017) She was the director of the Northern Short Story Festival from 2015-2020 and is a recent graduate of PGCert in Teaching Creative Writing from Cambridge University. Her most recent book, Maps of Imaginary Towns, published by Fly on the Wall Press, is available now in all good bookshops.
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