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The Nobodies
Tuesday 13 October
After uploading her mind to escape her failing body, a chronically ill woman must fight her way back to it before a sinister ethereal universe erases who she is.
Written by Marie Belsten
Tales From The Other Place
Human Error Productions
Each episode drops one impossible thing into an everyday life — an unexplained visitor, a technology that shouldn't exist, a door that wasn't there yesterday — and listens closely to what it exposes about the human condition.
Four standalone dramas · 30–45 minutes · From 13 October
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The Series
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Kontakt
Tuesday 20 October
Having finally secured world domination, President Vilamin Putrid is confronted by an intruder with mysterious powers who may hold Putrid’s very existence in his hands.
Written by Ned Langman
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Woken
Tuesday 27 October
In a world where sleep is optional, a struggling composer watches the woman he loves embrace a life without sleep — until unsettling changes make him question what it has cost them both.
Written by Richard Toye
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Hermann Magnusson & The Book of Death
Tuesday 3 November
When super-sleuth Hermann Magnusson predicts a murder, he crashes a 1930s high society party to uncover the killer. But someone is determined to stop him solving the case — the victim!
Written by Ned Langman
About
The strange element is never the point.
Tales From The Other Place is a speculative fiction series from three fresh British writers. Each standalone episode drops one impossible thing into an everyday life — a technology that probably shouldn't exist, a visitor who probably shouldn't be here, a door that definitely wasn't there yesterday — and listens closely to what it exposes about the human condition.
The strange element is never the point; it is the pressure that forces a choice nobody is ready to make. Blending dark humour, psychological tension and emotional vulnerability, the series uses the radical intimacy of full-cast audio to keep the focus where it belongs: on the relationship, the compromise, the thing someone can't take back.
Closer to The Twilight Zone than to Black Mirror, this is drama driven not by systems or villains but by recognisable people behaving questionably under impossible circumstances.
The Writers
Marie Belsten
The Nobodies
Marie Belsten is an award-winning writer for stage and screen, based in Devon, where she pays the bills as a copywriter. Her comedy-drama pilot Existential took four festival awards in 2023, and her play Malaise was crowned Enter Stage Write Grand Champion at the Birmingham Hippodrome. A former teacher of English Literature, Drama, and Media Studies, Marie has written mostly TV comedy-drama, sitcom and sketch, which makes The Nobodies — her first produced audio work — a foray into a new medium and a new genre.
Richard Toye
Woken
As a writer of fiction and drama, Richard is drawn to questions of identity, memory and the promises people make about the future. Richard’s play True Spirit Pathway was produced in Edinburgh and London, and he is developing Operation Ganymede, about a historian whose life has been shaped by a secret wartime experiment. Richard is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter and the author of Churchill’s Empire and The Roar of the Lion, and co-hosts the podcast Churchill: The Finest Half Hour.
Ned Langman
Kontakt · Hermann Magnusson
After 25 years in the games industry, Ned wrote and produced The Fungooms, five animated stories for children that found an audience worldwide. In 2018 he made a short film for Dartington’s Ordinary Extraordinary Festival, mentoring young adults with learning disabilities. His sitcom pilot Doppelgangers reached The Long List at Short Com in 2026, and he is now developing it alongside further sci-fi audio dramas and a dark comedy thriller feature.
The Cast
The Nobodies
Written, directed and produced by Marie Belsten
Alex Anderson CrowAlice Payne + AI Voices
David HillJosh
Katy Arkwright-GiggDr Chen
Chelsea VincentCat
Gillie StonehamMiriam + AI Orientation Bot
Midge MullinProfessor O’Malley
Ben TallamyKai
Clifford BaderAI Voice
Chorus voicesClifford Bader, Julian Wild, Lesley Wild, Philip Robinson, Chelsea Vincent, Gillie Stoneham, Ben Tallamy and Katy Arkwright-Gigg.
Kontakt
Written, directed and produced by Ned Langman
Midge MullinPutrid
David HillThe Intruder
Maja LaskowskaYelena
Ivanhoe NoronaAlexey
Katy Arkwright-Giggthe Ukrainian Woman
Kate Robinsonthe TV News Correspondent
Clifford BaderThe Guard
Woken
Written by Richard Toye
Directed by Richard Toye and Marie Belsten
Produced by Marie Belsten
Midge MullinDavid
Chelsea VincentSteph
Maja LaskowskaAmanda
Philip RobinsonJames and the Virtual Physician
David Hillthe Surgeon
Adrian JacksonThe Informant
Clifford BaderThe Podcast Host and Café Waiter
David Hill & Katy Arkwright-Giggthe WakeTech announcers
Lesley WildThe Midwife, the Woman in the Café, and the Newsreader
Julian WildCafé Man 1
Ned LangmanCafé Man 2
Hermann Magnusson & The Book of Death
Written, directed and produced by Ned Langman
Mike FelsteadHermann Magnusson
Jake WheatonFred Edwards
Joanna NearyHelen Edwards and Miss Wilson
Joanne RogersCarol Smith
Ned LangmanLeonard Parker
No synthetic voices
Every voice you hear belongs to a person who was in the room. We don't upload our cast's recordings to AI platforms, and we don't use them to train models or generate speech anyone didn't perform.
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