In the last 10 years, the licence fee has only gone up by £34.50/year. In the same time, for the same deal (HD, no ads), Netflix has gone up by almost double that, £67.08/year. And that’s just for Netflix, not the ENTIRE BBC.

Have you got ten favourite fiction podcasts? Come tell us what they are! www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama...

Don't know which one to start with? Here are my top 161. That still too much choice? Start with the very top of the list, 36 Questions. Unless you're my wife, who it made cry, you'll probably enjoy it. audiofiction.co.uk/collections/...

Getting unreasonably annoyed at someone who has decided to create their own fiction podcast database by just scraping the existing ones. We've spent years doing this tagging - very irritating to find someone trying to profit off it.

"Help, I don't have legs!"

Can recommend Project Hail Mary.

Stop giving your elevenlabs ai voice "cast" names in a cast list. They don't exist!

I think my back might appreciate a go on this.

Do the thing.

I run a feed that's just first episodes, to help people find new fiction podcasts. If there's an ungodly number of adverts on your short episode, I sometimes just skip you.

I have come to appreciate line flubs left in recordings of single narrator audiobooks. Rather more convincing that they're not AI.

picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account

Here's my #SpotifyUnwrapped for 2025. I promise to start saying nice things about Spotify as soon as they start doing nice things instead of horrible things.

The cancelled TV shows you'll never stop thinking about.

New Fiction Podcasts - 30 November 2025 www.patreon.com/posts/15-fic...

Netflix is the netflix of podcasts. And is definitely the best place to listen to them.

I was curious how someone got incorrect information about my name, so I tried AI-ing me to see what came up. Hilariously wrong.

New Fiction Podcasts 23 November 2025 www.patreon.com/posts/11-fic...

This week's new fiction podcasts: www.patreon.com/posts/23-fic...

Slight improvement! I have tweaked the "search by tags" page of my audio fiction database to allow better searching by multiple options (I've gone from dropdowns to checkboxes), and also stuck in an explicit "exclude AI" option as people wanted that. audiofiction.co.uk/filter.php

A rare and beautiful thing. New ep from "Scottish Podcast" team. We're biased as some of us are in it. Hadrian's Ward. www.scottishpodcast.com/52-hadrianx2... Lewis Davies, Owen Staton, Michael Hudson, Fiona Thraille, David Ault, Robert Cudmore, Sarah Golding, Tanja Milojevic, Karim Kronfli

Here's some podcasts. You might like them: www.patreon.com/posts/15-fic... (Afraid no forum option, AI scraper bots were making it untenable.)

It is October. Many new fiction podcasts start. Here are some of them: www.patreon.com/posts/48-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

God I wish I had more time for podcasts. Listening to the first episode of *all* of them leaves me little time to listen to full series. But it does sometimes mean I find cool stuff: audiofiction.co.uk/rss.php?rss=...

This week's new fiction podcasts: www.patreon.com/posts/140495... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

Looking for scary stories this Halloween season? The Audio Drama Directory presents 31 Days of Horror 2025! A full month of horror audio drama links added daily throughout October! Find horror stories at The Audio Drama Directory: audiodrama.directory?s=&post_tag=... #audiodrama #horror #halloween

You want the podcasts? You can't handle the podcasts! www.patreon.com/posts/39-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

Only five? Impossible.

I'm kinda curious whether the cafe is aware of their nature as a podcast nerd haven yet.

Podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/27-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

I have started so many podcasts, only to be greeted by the teeth-grinding "welcome to the deep dive" from NotebookLM. Want to see how bad it gets? Go search: Raghvendra Singh Or Quiet.Please On a podcast search. One uses ads, one uses "value 4 value" (bitcoin). On thousands of podcasts each.

When I was a young boy... There weren't any podcasts. But now, there are! www.patreon.com/posts/25-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

Did you want an RSS feed that's just the first episode of new fiction podcasts? But you didn't want to listen unless it already has one thousand episodes in the feed? Good news! Now it does. audiofiction.co.uk/releases.php

Also, if you don't credit your people, it is way easier to suspect AI nowadays. Perhaps not the best motivation, but I want to know you have actual actors.

Highly recommend listening to this: escapepod.org/2012/11/01/e...

Mein gott! Podcasts! www.patreon.com/posts/22-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

Oh ye, oh ye! 11 of the bells and all's podcasts: www.patreon.com/posts/27-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto... And someone's helping me compile them:

Enjoy some podcasts: www.patreon.com/posts/136167... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto... And a majestic queen:

What do fiction podcast creators (who have updated their info in my database) recommend you listen to? Find out! audiofiction.co.uk/collections/...

BRB adding another filter.

Who let the pods out? Please don't, it takes ages to collect them: www.patreon.com/posts/20-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

Also put your email address in your RSS feed.

Once again: It is too hot! Also here's some podcasts. www.patreon.com/posts/22-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto... And a cat.

After a lovely weekend off (visit Dubrovnik, it's hot!) I return with podcasts: www.patreon.com/posts/40-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto... And a cat that definitely didn't miss me, oh no...

Quick, get the podcasts before they melt! www.patreon.com/posts/17-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

Look out, podcasts! www.patreon.com/posts/27-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto...

This week's new fiction podcasts: www.patreon.com/posts/25-fic... audiofiction.co.uk/forum/viewto... Plus literal rubbish:

Slight improvement! You can now search my database by creators, who have their own pages. Now just need to figure out what can go on there. audiofiction.co.uk/creatorsearc...

Would be a bit rude to not acquire the soundtrack given all the Middle:Below pins I've still got...

It's pride month, so here's 309 podcasts that've tagged themselves as having LGBTQ+ creators: audiofiction.co.uk/filter.php?d... Also a rainbow cat: