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The Cleansed: A Post-Apocalyptic Saga

Wondery

Equal parts "Mad Max" and "The Stand," this post apocalyptic saga is set in a world 15 years after the collapse of the world as we know it. A brother and sister grow up in rural Maine and unwittingly embark on a adventure to save the City from the religious zealots and ruthless military fight for control over the fallen world. An epic serialized audio drama adventure with 30+ actors, cinematic sound design and original music. Winner of Mark Time Award for sci-fi audio and finalist in Romania's Grand Prix Nova award. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm.

Location:

United States

Networks:

Wondery

Description:

Equal parts "Mad Max" and "The Stand," this post apocalyptic saga is set in a world 15 years after the collapse of the world as we know it. A brother and sister grow up in rural Maine and unwittingly embark on a adventure to save the City from the religious zealots and ruthless military fight for control over the fallen world. An epic serialized audio drama adventure with 30+ actors, cinematic sound design and original music. Winner of Mark Time Award for sci-fi audio and finalist in Romania's Grand Prix Nova award. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm.

Twitter:

@TheCleansed

Language:

English


Episodes

Introducing Young's Infinite City

2/2/2024
This week, we would like to introduce you to Young's Infinite City, a podcast distributed by Realm In the middle of a crisis that could spark global war, Dr. Rosalind Young, the most powerful person on the planet, has gone missing. Grace Adamu, her wife and business partner, reaches out to Rosalind’s estranged son, Charles Davis, for help. Young’s Infinite City was created by Alex Dolan, produced by Alex Dolan and Audiohm Media, and co-written by Alex Dolan and Vince Dajani. Starring Gavin Bentley as Charles Davis, Maria Gbeleyi as Grace Adamu and Emma Sherr-Ziarko as Rosalind Young, and featuring performances by Bill Roberts, Winn Manning, Juliette Angeli, Zigmas Dobiliauskas, Kristen Udowitz, Andrea Richardson, Nero Scott, Jez Sands, Ray Hurd, Byron Kerr, Georgia McKenzie, Mark Alan, Chris Harris-Beechey, Akshdeep Singh, Paul Greene-Dennis, and Jason Webb. Sound design, line layout and QA by Chris Harris-Beechey. Mixing and mastering by Brad Colbrook. For more information, visit www.infinitecity.net or www.alexdolan.com. For more information on Audiohm Media, visit: http://www.audiohmmedia.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:00:44:22

Introducing DERELICT

12/4/2023
Please check out the first episode of the immersive sci-fi podcast DERELICT! DERELICT: FATHOM E1 - In the Dark We See The story begins with its prequel season, FATHOM, in which an ancient artifact that can only be described as a giant door has been found at the bottom of Earth's ocean. To study the artifact, the galaxy's most powerful corporation has built a massive secret laboratory base surrounding it. Their objective: unlock the secrets of the artifact and discover what it holds inside. But some mysteries should remain buried. And some doors should never be opened.... FATHOM is created, written and directed by J. Barton Mitchell; produced by Kirsten Rudberg, Elizabeth Laidlaw and Thomas Barker; features original music by Makeup and Vanity Set, Luke Atencio, and Ryan Taubert; sound design and editing by J. Barton Mitchell; additional sound design by Music Radio Creative. Cast: Elizabeth Laidlaw - EVA GRAFF; Michael Mau - BLAYNE; Eli Goodman - JOE FREEMAN; Dani Payne - SARAH KLAYTON. Listen to DERELICT: https://pod.link/1473460202/episode/742116ce5eb8929e4d723ee826ebea6f Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:00:52:30

Introducing Bookburners

2/27/2023
This week, we would like to introduce you to Bookburners, a new show from Realm created by Max Gladstone. Magic is real. And it’s dangerous. It’s locked in books and relics imbued with power. But sometimes, whether by accident or by design, magic escapes and wreaks havoc upon the world. That’s when Team Three is deployed—known by their enemies as: The Bookburners. Tasked with identifying and neutralizing magical threats anywhere in the world, the Bookburners are a cohort of special...

Duration:00:42:43

Introducing Leaving Corvat

2/3/2023
This week, we would like to introduce you to Leaving Corvat, a new podcast distributed by Realm. They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave. Join my on my adventure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:00:20:22

Introducing Spark Hunter

12/16/2022
This week, we would like to introduce you to Spark Hunter, a new podcast distributed by Realm. When the world’s most advanced AI evolves past the limits of human intelligence, the US government fears she has gone rogue and is determined to take her out. Now, over dinner with her Maker, a final meal will determine if she represents a new hope for the world… or its destruction. With sharpshooters in position, and the NSA listening to their every word, her Maker must determine if she is a...

Duration:00:19:33

Introducing Blood Culture

11/22/2022
This week, we would like to introduce you to Blood Culture, a new podcast distributed by Realm. Explosive techno-thriller from Resonance 104.4FM. A’isha is just about holding down her job at the tech giant Meta before her old friend bursts in and accuses her boss of murder. She has to face up to what she has become, the lies that are woven in her past and the terrifying truth of what Meta are doing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:00:58:31

Introducing Undertow: Blood Forest, starring Jack Falahee

10/21/2022
Langeley, Maine’s newest arrival is troubled veteran Frank Perotti. Blind teenager Eva Pelletier wants to survive her bullies, graduate, and leave Langeley forever. But a sudden rash of savage animal killings threatens to upend her dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:00:47:55

Introducing ElfQuest

9/15/2022
This week, we would like to introduce you to ElfQuest, an epic saga from comic book creators Wendy and Richard Pini presented by Realm. Driven from their ancestral forest home by humans wielding fire, Wolfrider chief Cutter and his elfin tribe must seek refuge from the inferno in the mysterious Caverns of the Trolls. But can the subterranean dwellers be trusted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:00:25:30

Introducing Hollow

6/30/2022
Introducing HOLLOW, a new scripted sci-fi horror podcast from Violet Hour Media, distributed by Realm. A mercenary embarks on a corporate mission to track down a rogue leader and encounters the darkness of space, the darkness of colonization, and ultimately, the darkness within herself. Episode 01 - Leave Battle hardened corporate mercenary, Amelia Wallenrod, travels to the prestigious Luna colonies and is briefed on her mission to recover an important scientist who has been taken hostage on...

Duration:00:27:51

Introducing Overleaper, starring Thora Birch

5/19/2022
This week, we’re introducing you to Overleaper, a new show from Realm starring Thora Birch. Listen and subscribe to Overleaper wherever you get your podcasts, or visit Realm.fm (and sign up for our newsletter while you're at it!) On a covert mission in Afghanistan, Staff Sergeant Audrey Beach is sent through a mysterious door where she encounters a shocking discovery—a hostile doppelganger. Overleaper is a Realm production. Listen Away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Duration:00:30:34

Introducing Marigold Breach, starring Jameela Jamil and Manny Jacinto

4/11/2022
This week, we’re introducing you to Marigold Breach, starring Jameela Jamil and Manny Jacinto. Listen and subscribe to Marigold Breach wherever you get your podcasts, or visit Realm.fm (and sign up for our newsletter while you're at it!) After crash-landing on a mysterious planet with no memory and a sentient AI implant in his brain keeping him alive, a soldier searches for answers about his past. There are only four things Lucan knows with certainty: his name, his rank, that the droll AI...

Duration:00:29:34

Introducing Undertow: A Dark Tome Story

2/2/2022
This week, we would like to introduce you to Undertow: A Dark Tome Story, a new show presented by Realm. Listen to Undertow: A Dark Tome Story wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Realm+ on Apple Podcasts to access the entire show now, ad-free. Visit Realm.fm for more information. When investigative journalist Tony Baxter returns to his hometown of Simpson Falls, Maine, a mysterious conspiracy unearths secrets from his past he can’t escape. Joined by friend and fellow lost soul Sonia...

Duration:00:39:33

Introducing Outliers, narrated by Rory Culkin

1/21/2022
This week, we would like to introduce you to Outliers, a new show presented by Realm. Listen to Outliers wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Realm+ on Apple Podcasts to access the entire show now, ad-free. Visit Realm.fm for more information. In the Before, the planet was populated with humans. Now it belongs to the Outliers. Boy has spent his entire life with only his father for company, convinced they’re the last surviving humans in a world full of monsters. But when he meets a...

Duration:00:19:39

Introducing Tales Beyond Time

12/27/2021
This week, we would like to introduce you to Tales Beyond Time, a new show from Realm. Listen and subscribe to Tales Beyond Time wherever you get your podcasts, or visit Realm.fm Tales Beyond Time is a weekly show bringing you incredible short stories. All the stories you’ll hear are sci-fi, fantasy, or horror, and many will be written (or narrated) by people you may recognize. Every story explores a different aspect of the human—or not-so-human—experience, tackling themes like war, love,...

Duration:00:58:59

The Collective

12/12/2021
Today we feature a new, standalone post-apocalyptic audioplay - The Collective, by Asata Radcliffe. A major Catastrophic Event, known as the C.E. has left less than 10,000 people on the planet. The actual population of the world is not known. A group of humans, known as The Collective, decide to not have children as a way of saving humanity from the inherent human legacy of barbarism. Nora Harlem, a 26 yr. old who survived the C.E., is carrying a secret, as she makes a harrowing trek to seek shelter in New Mexico, where she finds unlikely protectors. Produced over the pandemic with a dozen actors in three countries, The Collective is a lavish, immersive audio experience. Transcript and full cast/crew list at: https://dagazmedia.com/thecollective/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:01:03:49

Introducing Black Friday

11/29/2021
Guest episode by our friends at Realm. Black Friday is a new horror-comedy podcast starring Fred Armisen. When demons from hell and their zombie minions attack the Mart Club, hapless retail worker Bob, his manager Tanya, and their coworkers must find a way to defeat them before the holiday crowd descends. Now if only Bob would stop cracking Dad-jokes and risking their lives to complete his grocery shopping list, maybe they’d have a chance at being heroes. Learn more about your ad choices....

Duration:00:19:06

Introducing Roanoke Falls

10/29/2021
Guest content from our friends at Realm. A new horror podcast Executive Produced by John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter, and sound designed by Dark Tome creator Fred Greenhalgh and long-time collaborator Rory O'Shea 1587, North Carolina: Agnes is a reluctant settler in Roanoke, forced to leave England with her preacher husband, Thomas, in search of a better life. But the first colony failed, and Agnes fears this one will suffer the same fate: lack of resources, frigid cold, starvation....

Duration:00:25:01

Introducing If I Go Missing The Witches Did It

9/24/2021
Guest content from our friends at Realm. When a Black writer goes missing in the Hudson Valley, a well-meaning but misguided white podcast host with a savior complex takes up the cause of finding her—and collides with a coven of influencers she suspects are responsible. Written by Pia Wilson, playwright for tv, film and now podcasts, and starring Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe. Sound designed by yours truly! Fred Greenhalgh, with support from Carter Wogahn. If I Go Missing the...

Duration:00:25:18

The Agony Chamber, by Morgan Sylvia

9/13/2021
Special content from our sister podcast, The Dark Tome. A group of buddies goes hunting in the Maine woods and find an evil beyond imagination. This haunting story is penned by Morgan Sylvia -- a metalhead, an Aquarius, a beer snob, coffee addict, and a work in progress. A former obituarist, she is now a full-time freelance writer. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Pseudopod, Forgotten Realms, Wicked Witches, Wicked Haunted, Northern Frights, Haunted House Short Stories, Endless...

Duration:00:45:46

Wholesale Solution

7/16/2021
A haunting original audioplay by Fred Greenhalgh and Jack Bowman. An interstellar traveler will stop at nothing to save his fiancée who is trapped on a troubled Europa Colony. But as realities start to mash into one another, the true underlying reality is more shocking than his mind can handle. A dark treatise on space colonialism, late-stage capitalism, and the repercussions of AI, Wholesale Solution is here to bend your mind in the most twisted of directions. Produced by Dagaz Media. Dialogue edit, Jack Bowman. Sound design, Tom Alexander. Cast members: Joe Bearor: Clay Ian Carlsen: Campbell Casey Turner: Tala Myra Diehl: Doctor William Dufris: Nurse RC Bray: The AI Originally appeared on The Drabblecast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duration:00:45:12