Wireless Theatre Horror and Thrillers

The Bloody Life of R.M.Renfield

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:28:03 +0000

If there's one character in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula as fascinating as the arch vampire himself, it's R.M. Renfield the zoophagous patient in Dr. Seward's mental hospital, who has fallen under the vampire's spell. But Stoker provides no explanation of how Renfield came to be imprisoned, nor of the origins of his strange relationship with his Master. Marty Ross's audio drama imagines a whole back story for the character - the story of a tragically ordinary Victorian shopkeeper, stuck looking after ageing parents and prone to a furtive fascination with blood.

Feedswap - Ghosted Episode One

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 10:07:15 +0000

For our first ever feedswap, we are delighted to bring you the first episode of Ghosted from the amazing Longcat Media. Perched on a rain-battered cliff edge is a former lighthouse; now a charming, boutique hotel. Owner and sole occupant Beth has spent months renovating, absorbing its essence into her bones, preparing for her first guest to arrive. But when they do, to Beth's horror, it is a figure from a past she has tried to forget. Keira. Face-to-face for the first time in years, the pair must reckon with old mistakes, old grievances. And something else. Because the lighthouse has a past too.

Skin II The Session

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:51:17 +0000

Skin II The Session; audio thriller starring Samantha Boffin, nominated for best actress in a Radio Drama at the 2020 One Voice Conference. It’s been four years since vegan serial killer Vivian Shorewood skinned the first of her sixteen victims in what she deemed a ‘boutique-culling’ of London’s more undesirable inhabitants. Frustrated that her five previous psychiatrists haven’t truly been able to embrace or understand, and in some cases even believe her actions, she decided to make an appointment to see Dr. Martin Boyden (Mich Howell), a respected expert in his field. ‘Skin II The Session’ is their first meeting, which happened last Thursday at 11.45 am.

Samantha Boffin (Vivian) was nominated for a 2020 One Voice Award for ‘Best Actress in a Radio Drama’ for SKIN.

“Samantha Boffin as Vivian Shorewood is stupendous. In non stop dialogue she offers up just the right balance of maniacal with sensible intellect. A well researched and written gory tale which holds your attention.”
BroadwaytoVegas review of SKIN

Skin II The Session Audio Thriller

Written, Directed & Produced by Simon James Collier

Music & Soundscape Design: Zachary Elliott-Hatton

Co Producer: Adam Dechanel

Recorded at The Umbrella Rooms Studio, London – January 2019

Engineer: Ben Robbins

Samantha Boffin as Vivian Shorewood
Mich Howell as Dr Martin Boyden
Georgie Montgomery as Rebecca

Graphic Design: Clockwork Digital Studios

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Joe Walsh and the Weight of Despair

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:54:04 +0000

A radio drama in which a man is being investigated in relation to the death of a woman. Using 3D Binaural audio, the listener is placed inside the mans mind, hearing what he hears and feeling what he feels as he drifts from reality, delusion, truth and lies. This drama contains disturbing themes and sound effects. Not suitable for young listeners.

Skin III The Final Incision

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:37:22 +0000

Skin III The Final Incision; audio thriller starring Samantha Boffin, nominated for best actress in a Radio Drama at the 2020 One Voice Conference. It’s been nine years since vegan serial killer Vivian Shorewood skinned the first of her twenty-eight victims. She receives a call from Oakleaf Nursing Home, in Wollaton, Nottingham, where her mother, 84-year-old Hilary, has taken a turn for the worse. Hilary’s Care Worker intimates to Vivian that maybe she should pay her mother a visit, sooner rather than later. What Vivian doesn’t know is that Hilary has both something to tell her daughter, something she has kept a secret her entire life, and to ask of her one last request.

Samantha Boffin (Vivian) was nominated for a 2020 One Voice Award for ‘Best Actress in a Radio Drama’ for SKIN.

“Samantha Boffin as Vivian Shorewood is stupendous. In non stop dialogue she offers up just the right balance of maniacal with sensible intellect. A well researched and written gory tale which holds your attention.”
BroadwaytoVegas review of SKIN

Skin III The Final Incision Audio Thriller

Written, Directed & Produced by Simon James Collier

Music & Soundscape Design: Zachary Elliott-Hatton

Co Producer: Adam Dechanel

Recorded at The Umbrella Rooms Studio, London – January 2019

Engineer: Ben Robbins

Samantha Boffin as Vivian Shorewood
Maggie Turner as Hilary Shorewood
Kimberley Ensor as Doreen

Graphic Design: Clockwork Digital Studios

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Skin

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Wed, 19 May 2021 16:32:00 +0000

Skin audio thriller starring Samantha Boffin, nominated for best actress in a Radio Drama at the 2020 One Voice Conference. A few months ago, London-based Vivian Shorewood decided to take a stand, albeit a small one, against world injustice, and began her attempt to redress the balance. She selected one particularly offensive and repugnant individual, and after following a carefully executed plan she lured him into her trap, immobilised him, and brought him back to her cellar where she proceeded to… skin him.
‘Skin’ follows the first night of her fight.

Samantha Boffin (Vivian) was nominated for a 2020 One Voice Award for ‘Best Actress in a Radio Drama’ for this production

“Samantha Boffin as Vivian Shorewood is stupendous. In non stop dialogue she offers up just the right balance of maniacal with sensible intellect. A well researched and written gory tale which holds your attention.”
BroadwaytoVegas

Skin Audio Thriller

Written, Directed & Produced by Simon James Collier

Music & Soundscape Design: Zachary Elliott-Hatton

Co Producer: Adam Dechanel

Recorded at The Umbrella Rooms Studio, London – January 2019

Engineer: Ben Robbins

Graphic Design: Clockwork Digital Studios

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Windover

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 02 May 2020 16:42:34 +0000

A haunting and memorable tale set on the wild Atlantic coast of North Devon. 19 year old Jenny is pleased to inherit her grandmother's cottage, until visions of her family's past threaten her future.

Valentine's Day

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 02 May 2020 16:18:09 +0000

Valentine's day. Creepy audio thriller. Married Nicola receives a mystery Valentine from a stranger with a dark obsession. 'Stuart' seem to know her well, and shows no signs of backing off.

The Woman on the Bridge

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 02 May 2020 14:03:19 +0000

Chatsworth House during the Second World War. The Devonshire family make way for an evacuated girls’ school, whose pupils discover ghost stories and a secret love affair... The Woman On The Bridge is an audio drama ghost story recorded in front of a live audience of over 150 people at The Palace Hotel as part of The Buxton Festival and was nominated for a Buxton Fringe Theatre Award.

The Autopsy

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:47:58 +0000

A man under pressure. A heated argument. A fatal heart attack. But Jeff's death was only the beginning. A binaural audio thriller best enjoyed through headphones for full 3d effect. "Absolutely terrifying" - John Rippon

Stage Fright 2014

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:08:37 +0000

. For the third year running, we hosted STAGE FRIGHT to launch the fabulous London Horror Festival. Three plays short listed and performed live to special guest judge Seth Patrick. First up we had Special Delivery by Elizabeth Adlington, which focused on a couple following the delivery of a rather unusual teddy bear. Next came Tears from the Pillow by Gabrielle Wright, a touching yet spine-chilling tale about a man in a coma (we daren’t reveal any more). Finally, Pete Barrett’s Forever Amber told the story of a cantankerous lord with a passion for taxidermy. The award went to Pete Barrett’s FOREVER AMBER, but you can listen to all three productions here.

Stage Fright 2013

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:07:39 +0000

Stage Fright 2013. Once again Wireless Theatre were thrilled to open the London Horror Festival by recording, live at the Etcetera Theatre, three short-listed horror plays; Valley House, The Skulk and Cool Head. The plays were then judged by horror royalty Kim Newman.

Stage Fright 2012

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:02:00 +0000

3 short horror plays submitted as part of londonhorrorfestival.com‘s first ever STAGE FRIGHT competition, followed by a live performance from Richard O'Brien (Rocky Horror Show) including the Time Warp.

Sweatbox

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:13:48 +0000

This original drama centres on main protagonist Zoe (Fay Downie) and the disturbing Kerry (Lexy Howe). Each week Zoe treats herself to a relaxing sauna, until one fateful evening she meets Kerry, a woman more obsessed with celebrity life than her own, and that relaxation is thrown into turmoil. Kerry is harbouring a dark secret but will it force Zoe to face truths of her own? Recorded by an all female cast in honour of International Women’s Day, Sweatbox is a darkly comic look at society’s fascination with celebrity.

Phonophobia

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:14:09 +0000

A phonophobic history student makes a dangerous discovery in a dusty old book. Will he unleash terrible supernatural powers? How does his discovery relate to the history of the West End of London?

Medusa on the Beach

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:45:15 +0000

A perfectly ordinary, past-its-best English seaside town. Except why has everyone there been turned to stone? Two seriously out-of-their-depth police officers uncover the strange tale of what happened when middle-aged and romantically disappointed hairdresser Marjorie Briggs found something in a polythene bag on the beach that didn’t belong there, something ancient and terrible – something with the power to seriously muck up the lives of Marjorie and all those she loves and hates, as surreal comedy shifts towards a very strange sort of Greek tragedy…. Written by Marty Ross

Lohengrin Retold

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:30:51 +0000

What is Brabant’s dark secret? A man arrives in the city of Cardiff, haunted by his past – he tells the chilling story of the deeds of Count Telramund and his sorceress wife, Ortrud. Few have survived the events that have befallen the people. But has the story ended, or has it followed him here? Welsh National Opera and DJ Switch, DJ Rakabeat provide the music.

The Grimm of Stottesden Hall

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:34:15 +0000

Based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe and recorded in front of a terrified live audience. An original gothic horror radio play of madness, terror and gruesome murder!

Dream On

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 19:47:05 +0000

Robert is having a dream. Breakfast with his wife. His ex-wife. His dead ex-wife. The next night, there she is again, hauntingly familiar in the full personification of her monstrous personality. His current wife is unamused at his nocturnal flirtation with the dead past and as dreams and reality began to overlap, Robert begins a desperate hunt to find out why this is happening and if he is really losing his mind.

The Cask of Amontillado

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 15:09:27 +0000

3D Audio Horror. Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece, recorded on location in ancient vaults as a binaural audio drama. Montresor lures Fortunato into the family vault...

Blood and Stone

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:22:17 +0000

Blood and Stone is a 3D binaural audio horror play, so listen using headphones for the full terrifying effect. Based on the true story of prolific mass murderer Countess Elizabeth Bathory, bricked up in her own Slovakian castle for over 600 murders. 3D binaural audio horror written by Marty Ross.

Crooker's Kingdom, Part Two

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:55:36 +0000

Recorded on Halloween night, 2015, on location at Cromford Mills

Crooker's Kingdom, Part One

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 08:50:44 +0000

Recorded on Halloween night, 2015, on location at Cromford Mills. Locals warn Sir Richard Arkwright not to anger Crooker, a dangerous nature spirit, but he insists on building his castle.

A Very Grimm Christmas - The Piper And Musicians of Bremen

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:09:51 +0000

A horror adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Part of A Very Grimm Christmas performed and recorded in front of a live audience. Not intended for children.

A Very Grimm Christmas - The Brave Little Tailor

Wireless Theatre Ltd — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:05:14 +0000

Horror. A dark adaptation of the Brother’s Grimm tale, not intended for children. part of 'A Very Grimm Christmas' recorded live at The Roundhouse Camden. Putting the grim in Brothers Grimm.