The New Drama Hour series is currently in production on it’s 4th series with a 5th series in pre-production.
You can listen to series 3 in it’s entirety below.
Breathing Space,
A comedy drama about an accidental astronaut being ghosted by a space agency, a comedy drama about an accidental astronaut being ghosted by a space agencyon her journey to Mars. Bridget Jones meets Gravity while Waiting For Godot.
Jammie Dodgers
By Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early twenties when, despite your best efforts, you start becoming an adult and making the choices that will determine your future. We’re currently in post production of episodes 2 and 3 of Jammie Dodgers.
Blind Date
Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends. What have they to lose? A compelling and intense audio drama about looking for love.
Content Warning: Sexually explicit material and references to sexual voilence.
Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends and long-term couple Helen and Dave. Sophie, a pretty, sexually confident thirty-year-old, is looking for something more permanent than her usual transient relationships. Karl, a good-looking thirtysomething, agrees because he thinks Helen secretly fancies him and this is her way of checking him out. The minute they clap eyes on each other they like what they see. The date goes really well with Sophie agreeing to go back to Karl’s for a coffee and chat. Each recount a radically different version of what happens next.
Jumping for Joy
A young woman decides to end her life on high point by jumping off a building before her happiness can turn sour. However just as she is about to jump, she is stopped by a man calling himself the Angel of Death, and it seems he rather she stay alive.
The Whale and the Swan
By Fiona Browne. Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and brutal. In order to survive she creates her own world among the hanging sheets of the laundry, and regularly escapes into ‘Suchatime’
High Spirits
By Méabh de Brún. Three siblings and one in-law gather after a patriarch’s burial to honour a very unusual letter of wishes. Their late father wants to be contacted in the afterlife, and so begins a dark comedy full of suspect séances, family secrets and the undeniable bond of siblinghood.