Top Fiction Podcasts

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Tales of Adventure is an NPR style podcast following Isra as she travels the land interviewing various adventurers, townspeople, and villains. This podcast pays homage to all of the great characters that come out of roleplaying games like D&D and Pathfinder.

MonkeyTales – a hopepunk audio fiction anthology series

James Hawkins helps his mom run a motel in modern day Montauk, Long Island. But when a mysterious man washes up on the beach with a treasure map tattooed on his chest, James discovers that Billy Bones is, in fact, a time traveling pirate from the 18th century. James and his new friends, Morgan and Max, follow the map right into a magical portal that leads them back nearly three hundred years and back into a swashbuckling adventure.

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• Starring: Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower.
• Production: Produced by Harry Towers through his Towers of London syndicate in England.
• Broadcast: This 30-minute historical action and adventure series first aired in 1952 on Radio Luxembourg. Despite being produced in England, the BBC wasn't interested, so it was sent to the United States.
• US Broadcasts: CBS originally broadcast 52 episodes until July 17, 1953. It was later rebroadcast by ABC in 1954 and the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1957.
• Content: The series followed Hornblower's career from a young, seasick midshipman to an Admiral of the Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. The plots were carefully crafted by Forester to avoid direct interference with actual historical battles, allowing Hornblower to be on his own significant missions.