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- Today29 min
The Polished Letter · Moscow Rules
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. A Moscow translator stands on the doormat of the detective Maksim Volkov and will not sit down. This week the American papers printed a bank warning, and she knew it by her own commas: she had polished it. Someone will be blamed, she says. Who hired a Moscow translator to polish the letter that robbed Washington? 🎧 Full episode of Moscow Rules: a modern spy and detective audio drama set in Moscow, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Moscow, summer 2014. The translator Vera climbs four flights to the cluttered flat near Chistye Prudy that the detective Maksim Volkov shares with his chronicler, Doctor Grigori Melnik. Clamping a folder to her chest, she will not sit: whatever she has to say, she will say standing. This week the American papers printed a bank warning that she polished; someone in Washington believed it. The police at Petrovka took her complaint, stamped it and were bored by it. She will not read a word of the stolen mail: stolen letters, she says, cannot be unread. Volkov asks to see her people. In the lodge of her block on Frunzenskaya Embankment the concierge Pantelei guards his book of every name, flat and hour, and shares the room with an old dog with a ruined hip; on the landing a pensions clerk named Zimin calls on the block's pensioners; and at Savyolovsky market a boy named Stas mends her machine. At Petrovka Thirty-Eight, Inspector Kravchenko sits behind a full ashtray with the complaint under her elbow. A voice on the telephone hired her, Vera says. Whose letter did Vera polish? From the series Moscow Rules: a real post-Soviet event reimagined as a modern detective radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Russian case of the 2010s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including translators and their clients, the residents, pensioners and veterans of an apartment block and its concierge, officials of a pensions fund, market traders and computer repairmen, the staff and officials of a national council, police officers and investigators, prosecutors, officials and officers of the state, and anyone suspected or accused of the robbery — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, street, market, police headquarters, newspaper or public body is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the council and the offices named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Moscow — summer 2014. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 The Woman on the Doormat2:09 Boiled Tea and Old Dog at the Lodge3:39 Two Flights Up, a Door That Would Not Answer5:09 A Market Stall No Wider Than a Coffin6:55 Dusk at Vera's Table over the River9:14 A Full Ashtray at Petrovka10:46 The Row Falls Silent at the Market Gate12:32 Vera Sits at Last, Coat Still Buttoned14:16 The Supper Hour with the Concierge Out15:39 A Dog Who Watches Like a Magistrate17:11 Bleach and Cabbage Beneath Petrovka18:38 Back Under Vera's Lamp, the River Gone Dark20:42 Back Down at First Light22:17 Volkov Silent All the Way from the Metro23:25 Back at the Lodge for the Dog25:01 The Inspector Climbs Coughing to the Landing26:35 The Hour of Lit Kitchens #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
- Today28 min
A Borrowed Voice · Holmes LA
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. A Burbank studio chief calls in Sherlock Holmes: a photographer half a world away has phoned her about expenses she was kindly promised on the telephone and never repaid, yet the chief swears she has never spoken to the woman in her life. Who has been telephoning a stranded photographer in a studio chief's voice? 🎧 Full episode of Holmes LA: a modern Sherlock Holmes audio drama, a radio mystery set in Los Angeles and performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Los Angeles, April 2022. On a Tuesday evening Dr. Watson is at war with a sprinkler timer that fires at dusk, not dawn, while Sherlock Holmes, plaster to the wrist, casts a coyote's paw print on the drive of their converted craftsman above Echo Park. His phone starts walking off the porch rail: Vivian Stroud, who runs a film studio in Burbank, says a photographer she has never met, Nora Lindgren, has just phoned her, stranded half a world away, and wants Holmes at her studio tonight. Holmes would sooner not cross the hills for someone else's bad evening (his last three weeks paid nothing and the rent on Watson's clinic falls due on Friday), but Watson points out that, of everyone a stranded photographer could have called, she chose a studio chief she has never met, and Holmes asks for the car keys. First they stop at a stucco walk-up four streets below their own house, where they are let into Nora's rooms: a cold darkroom with the fixer dried in its tray and a calendar that stops in September. She only packed for two weeks. On the dubbing stage Stroud insists she never spoke to the young woman in her life, and Holmes rings Nora and hears about a picture job offered in September, expenses promised and fifty-two thousand dollars of savings gone. Nobody at the studio has heard of any such picture. Stroud wants no police before her investors sign, and the person she sends Holmes to is Bridie Boyle, the dialect coach who has taught actors their accents for thirty-one pictures and never once seen her name in the credits. Next morning Lieutenant Quintero of homicide, who knows of nobody dead, comes to the dubbing stage as a favor to Holmes. Who is out there being Vivian Stroud, and kinder at it? From the series Holmes LA: a real Los Angeles crime reimagined as a modern Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Los Angeles case of recent years. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including a film-studio chief and her staff and investors, a freelance photographer and other film workers, a dialect coach, the police and the investigators, and anyone suspected or accused of the telephone calls — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, street or public body is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the studio, the lot and the places named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Los Angeles — April 2022. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 A Coyote's Paw Print and a Sprinkler Timer2:41 A Stucco Walk-Up at the Foot of the Hill4:16 An Actress Frozen Mid-Sob on the Dubbing Stage5:43 Grey Felt and a Call Into Tomorrow Morning7:43 A Corridor of Framed Posters8:58 Blinds Drawn and No Chairs Offered10:04 Mirrors and a Wall of Labelled Tape11:47 A Lieutenant on the Dubbing Stage13:36 A Plaster Paw on the Kitchen Table14:33 Stopped Dead in Dusk Traffic15:59 A Victory Cigarette in the Front Office17:12 A Guard Walks Bridie Boyle Back Through the Gate18:59 Down the Hill on Foot, Next Morning20:10 Cardboard Takes Over the Coaching Room22:06 An Ashtray Smoked Full by Afternoon23:44 Shut in the Felt Once More24:37 Evening in Nora's Rooms Down the Hill26:35 The Last of It, from the Case Log #MonoNoirRadioDrama #SherlockHolmes #AudioDrama
- Yesterday28 min
Last Day of October · Velvet Shadows
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. On the last day of October the President's son walks down to the gate of a Prague villa: a shout, the railings ringing, a van door. By morning he is found on the steps of an Austrian police station, and the President's wife has come down the Castle steps alone to ask the detective Antonín Zima to bring him home. Who seized him? 🎧 Full episode of Velvet Shadows: a modern noir detective audio drama set in Prague, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Prague, November 1996. The bookshop in Malá Strana has shut for the evening when the President's wife walks through it to the back office, where the detective Antonín Zima is correcting the accounts of the bookseller Pavel Hruška, who tells this story. She has come down the Castle steps alone and will not even sit. A police report of two lines and a rubber stamp says her stepson, Daniel Bartoš, was found on the steps of the police station at Stollenau, in Austria; she trusts no Prague policeman and wants Zima to bring him home. At the villa in Bubeneč a young police captain, Kapitán Jelínek, has no orders to show them anything, but the railings at the gate are bent inward at shoulder height, and the housekeeper's statement has Daniel walking down to the gate at supper time; the supper is still laid. In her private rooms at the Castle, with the tea going cold, paní Bartošová admits that she wants her husband out of the Castle. Then come the Interior Minister, Šebesta, on Letná, and a long drive south to meet Sergeant Pichler, who keeps the front desk at Stollenau. Who took the President's son from his own gate? From the series Velvet Shadows: a real event of the 1990s reimagined as a post-communist Prague noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the President, his wife and his family, the ministers, officials and officers of an interior ministry, the police and their captains, the staff of a border post, of a police station and of a prosecutor's office, the investigators, and anyone suspected or accused of seizing the President's son — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, street, public body, business or border crossing is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the villa, the ministry offices, the police stations and the border post named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Prague — November 1996. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 The President's Wife Will Not Sit1:34 At the Villa Gate in Bubeneč3:21 Tea Going Cold in Her Rooms at the Castle4:55 The Interior Minister's Office on Letná6:38 Floor Polish at the Police Station in Stollenau9:07 Road Dust at the Criminal Police10:15 Summoned Back Within the Hour11:41 The Express to Vienna12:43 After Dark Among the Unsold Books13:34 All of Them in One Room by Eleven15:44 The Evening Paper Beat Us Up the Hill17:34 Near Midnight, One Lamp Still Burning19:20 Before Light, in the Fog Below Letná20:19 A Stranger on the Minister's Carpet22:42 Down the Stairs Two at a Time24:25 A Yard from a Thin Door25:47 Fog Over Prague, Back Through the Shop #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
- Yesterday27 min
Gone Away · Holmes NYC
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. An eighty-two-year-old woman has vanished from her Manhattan townhouse in the summer heat, leaving her handbag, spectacles and heart pills behind. The precinct has closed its book, but her housekeeper brings Holmes and Watson an answering-machine tape: a message that says she has gone away. Where did Mrs. Thorne go? 🎧 Full episode of Holmes NYC: a modern Sherlock Holmes audio drama, a radio mystery set in New York and performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Brooklyn, July 1992. A week past the fireworks, with the heat unbroken, Dr. Watson is quarrelling with a baseball call-in show on his radio and Holmes is sorting spent firecracker paper by maker when the doorbell rings. It is Marta, who has kept house for Mrs. Thorne for twenty-six years, with a tape knotted in a handkerchief. Holmes calls a grown woman's absence in summer no crime, and a housekeeper cannot pay their rent, until Watson mentions the knot. In Mrs. Thorne's bedroom the bed is made, her handbag on the chair still holds her keys, her wallet and her spectacles, and a bottle of her heart medicine is nearly full. Nobody of eighty-two, Holmes observes, goes away without her spectacles. Marta last saw her at noon, cursing the firecrackers, and came back from her sister's to an empty house and a message; the precinct sergeant closed his book. At noon Captain Arroyo, folder in hand, thinks Mrs. Thorne has simply gone off. That night, in Marta's kitchen in Astoria under the elevated line, Holmes hears the message: Mrs. Thorne has gone up to an old friend on Riverside Drive for a rest. Marta has played it forty times. The next day, five flights up, the friend says Mrs. Thorne never came. Did she ever reach that door? From the series Holmes NYC: a real New York crime reimagined as a modern Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real New York case of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including an elderly homeowner, her housekeeper and household, her lodgers, her friends and neighbours, anyone suspected or accused of her disappearance, the prosecutors, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the townhouse, the apartment building and the precinct named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, New York — July 1992. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 Firecracker Paper and a Radio Call-In2:42 Mrs. Thorne's Bedroom by Full Dark4:14 The Next Morning's Stairs5:31 Noon in a Crowded Front Hall7:02 An Answering Machine on a Lace Doily8:35 Five Flights Up on Riverside Drive9:53 Cedar and Old Programs in the Study11:18 A Furniture Van at the Curb12:18 A Path Worn in the Study Rug13:48 One Card to a Fact14:38 Candlesticks Nobody Would Light15:47 A Last Loose End Before Uptown17:16 Back Up the Five Flights Toward Evening19:02 Mid-Morning in the Study20:37 The Evidence Cage in the Basement22:17 Back to the Front Hall23:59 The Captain Leads the Way at Dusk25:31 Brooklyn Again, the Fan Still Going #MonoNoirRadioDrama #SherlockHolmes #AudioDrama
- 2 days ago29 min
The Friday Flight · Moscow Rules
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. Three weeks ago, on a Friday, the metals dealer Arkady Zimin went to a Moscow airport for his flight to New York and never boarded. A girl at the check-in desk saw two men in long coats show Federal Security Service passes and walk him out. His secretary has come to the detective Maksim Volkov: who walked Arkady Zimin out? 🎧 Full episode of Moscow Rules: a modern spy and detective audio drama set in Moscow, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Moscow, autumn 1997. The secretary Nina will not sit down in the Chistye Prudy flat of the detective Maksim Volkov, where his papers have long since beaten the furniture and his coat lies across the piano. Three weeks ago, she says, her employer of eleven years, the metals dealer Arkady Zimin, set out on a Friday to catch a flight to New York and never got on the plane: at the check-in desk a girl saw two men in long coats flash Federal Security Service passes and walk him out. That afternoon a man who said he was an officer telephoned the office to say that Zimin was only detained, and he gave a reason that Nina, with the receiver in her hand, cannot now recall. The militia shrugged, but Nina still answers his telephone, and at eleven she still sets a fresh glass of tea on his desk. Volkov and Doctor Grigori Melnik follow her to the two rooms above a shuttered bakery where Zimin worked, then climb to the boardroom of the rival metals house, run by a director named Kask, and sit down at Petrovka with a major named Tarasenko, who gives them rather less than they came for. Three weeks of silence, a telephone still answered and two long coats at a check-in desk: where is Arkady Zimin? From the series Moscow Rules: a real post-Soviet event reimagined as a modern detective radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Russian case of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the missing businessman, his secretary, employees and family, rival businessmen and company directors, their staff and advisers, airport staff, officers of the security services, police officers and investigators, government officials, and anyone suspected or accused of his disappearance — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, street, airport or public body is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the companies and offices named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Moscow — autumn 1997. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 A Visitor Who Would Rather Stand2:00 Two Rooms Above a Shuttered Bakery3:43 A Boardroom Nine Floors Above the River5:06 Dusk and the Absent Man's Chair6:46 Nina Shuts the Door on an Empty Room8:22 Two Hard Chairs in a Room Blue with Smoke9:57 Cabs Nose to Tail Beyond Departures11:44 Four of Us Sinking in a Panelled Lift12:58 A Cardboard Box on the Empty Desk15:20 Up Again to the Long Table16:56 A Night Visit Across the City18:31 Nina in Her Good Coat, Next Morning19:55 Back Again That Afternoon22:12 An Evening in the Outer Room23:41 Departures Loud by Ten Next Morning25:53 Out Through the Doors, a Step Behind27:25 The Flat Again, Newspapers Where We Left Them #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
- 2 days ago28 min
The Sick Uncle · Istanbul Confidential
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. General Dorn, the German commander on Chios, vanished from the island four nights ago. The German consulate swears he was carried into Turkey, Ankara fears a pretext for war in Thrace, and the police director, writing in his own hand with no letterhead, asks the Istanbul detective Kemal Arslan to look into it quietly. Whatever became of the general, whom does his vanishing serve? 🎧 Full episode of Istanbul Confidential: a wartime espionage radio drama set in neutral Istanbul, an audio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Istanbul, autumn 1942. The police director's note has come up the stairs in a constable's pocket to the rooms above a glass-roofed arcade, and Captain Demir, who tells this story, reads it aloud to the detective Kemal Arslan at the window. By noon the two stand in the lobby of the Lalezar Hotel, at the desk where the trunk lines come in. Galina, who works the switchboard, lays both hands flat on her trunk ledger and will show it only to the management; Ashby, a hotel regular, says he has begged her for two years for one free call to Izmir; and Ingeborg, the German consulate's secretary, arrives to sign for General Dorn's trunk and his hatbox. At police headquarters in Sirkeci, Inspector Tunç keeps the pair forty minutes on a bench, then tells them the director wants them shown things, quietly. At the consulate in Gümüşsuyu the general's Istanbul diary lists his days and not one evening. A note with no letterhead, a ledger kept shut, a trunk signed for by a secretary and a diary with no evenings: where is General Dorn? From the series Istanbul Confidential: a real event of the 1940s reimagined as a classic noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1940s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including a German general and the officers and soldiers of his command, the staff of a consulate and of a hotel, the police and their inspectors, government officials, the people of an occupied island, the investigators, and anyone suspected or accused of any part in the general's disappearance — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, island, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the hotel, the police offices and the consulate named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Istanbul — autumn 1942. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 The Police Director's Note at the Window1:27 Potted Palms and German Voices at the Lalezar3:37 Forty Minutes on a Bench at Sirkeci5:03 Through the Consulate Gate at Gümüşsuyu6:31 Lamps Out Behind Galina's Switchboard7:57 The Case Laid Out Among the Tea Glasses9:25 Two Flights Up a Beyoğlu Passage12:01 Gloves Pulled Off in the Lobby14:03 Back Across the Emptied Lobby15:33 The Bosphorus Black Beneath the Terrace Rail17:17 A Typed Report and a Space Under a Name18:50 Two Strapped Trunks Beside a Typewriter20:49 Grey Light Over the Arcade Roof22:38 Tunç Waiting on the Pier24:22 Water Dripping Below Tunç's Office26:12 A Yellow Morning in the Hotel Lobby #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
- 3 days ago28 min
Paper by Noon · Velvet Shadows
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. At noon the Ministry froze Prague's Lion Fund, and by then its best shares had already left, on transfers that carry the chairman's signature. Professor Malina, the chairman whose face is on the fund's posters, writes to the detective Antonín Zima that he is accused of a theft he did not commit and has no one else to ask. Who got those shares out before the freeze? 🎧 Full episode of Velvet Shadows: a modern noir detective audio drama set in Prague, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Prague, June 1997. The bookseller Pavel Hruška, who tells this story, has shut his shop early and is reading the evening paper to his friend, the detective Antonín Zima, among the unsold poets in the back office. Hruška's own coupon book is in the Lion Fund. Then Zima reads out the letter he received that afternoon, pencilled on the back of a ruled answer sheet. At the university in Žižkov the word Thief is chalked across Professor Malina's door, and the suspended professor, with letters from the families who trusted his name spilled across his desk, insists that he signed nothing. At the fund's offices on Na Příkopě, where seals are going across the doors, Kapitán Rys of the Criminal Police explains that nine transfer orders were dropped in the securities registry's night box at dawn, delivered by nobody anyone saw. Linhart, who started the fund and says he knows its six hundred thousand shareholders by their account numbers, lets the detective in, and Ostrá, the fund's secretary, one of three people with a key to the office, is asked where she was the night before the freeze. At the registry the clerk Doubravová will swear in any court that the signature matched the professor's specimen card; the orders themselves are sealed in cabinet number three, and the ledger shows shares worth one billion two hundred million crowns transferred out. A professor who says he signed nothing, a clerk who swears to the signature, nine orders locked in a cabinet: who moved the Lion Fund's shares? From the series Velvet Shadows: a real 1990s Czech crime reimagined as a post-communist Prague noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Czech case of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the fund's chairman, founder and staff, a university lecturer, the officials of a securities registry and of a ministry, the police and criminal investigators, the shareholders, and anyone suspected or accused of the theft — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, street, university or public body is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the Lion Fund, its offices and its people are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Prague — June 1997. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 The Evening Paper Among the Unsold Poets1:39 Up the Stairs to the Professor's Door3:25 Seals Across the Fund's Doors5:34 Behind Frosted Glass in the Registry7:10 Near Midnight in the Kapitán's Office9:05 Back Through the Seals at Eight10:36 Rys Knocks on the Chalked Door12:35 Back Up to the Fund's Offices14:34 A Coupon Book and a Bottle of Becherovka16:10 Ostrá Fetched Back for Questioning18:13 Back Down to the Registry with the Professor19:53 Mist on Charles Bridge After Midnight21:17 Rys Waiting, Notebook Open, Short of Breath23:09 A Quarter of an Hour in a Bare Room25:33 Wrapped in Mist Behind the Bookshop #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
- 3 days ago27 min
A Call From Strahov · Velvet Shadows
This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. While the alarm rang in a Prague gallery, the only police car on duty was sent to an empty street at Strahov. By morning four paintings worth one point four billion crowns are gone, the night dispatcher is waiting to be blamed, and his captain has locked the caller's words in a drawer. Who was the voice on the radio? 🎧 Full episode of Velvet Shadows: a modern noir detective audio drama set in Prague, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Prague, late autumn 1993. Kos, the night dispatcher at the local police station, comes in dripping wet to the back of a Malá Strana bookshop, where the detective Antonín Zima and the bookseller who tells this story, Pavel Hruška, are over their coffee. The robbery was last night. Kos is the man who sent the only car away on a radio call about a patrol in trouble at Strahov. The voice was shouting, he says, and out of breath. He fears the station will write him down as careless. His captain, Kapitán Novotný, took his log and told him to keep quiet. At noon Zima and Hruška climb to the gallery. Four empty hooks are all that is left of the Dorvanes, and Ester, the curator, who has stood in front of them every morning for twenty years, puts down a telephone as they come in. Later, at four, they sit down in Libuše's pub on the square, with Vávra at the taps. Libuše, who sleeps over the bar, heard the alarm ring out that night, and no car came. Novotný gives Zima three days before his report on the dispatcher goes up as it stands, and the Ministry wants a name by the end of the week. Three days, one police car on duty and a voice nobody can place: who was on the radio that night? From the series Velvet Shadows: a real 1990s Czech crime reimagined as a post-communist Prague noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Czech case of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the night dispatcher, the police captain and the officers of his station, the gallery's curator, director and staff, ministry officials, the landlady and staff of a pub, the investigators, and anyone suspected or accused of the theft — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, police station or other public place, or a real public body, is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the gallery, the pub and the paintings named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Prague — late autumn 1993. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 A Wet Morning Behind the Bookshop1:48 Floor Wax and Police Tobacco at Noon3:34 Wet Gravel Behind the Gallery4:51 The Corner Table at Libuše's6:29 A Slot Under the Roof, Filled with Smoke7:47 A Counter, a Telephone and a Hissing Radio9:13 A Strip Light Buzzing in the Duty Corridor10:34 Patience Cards by a Dying Stove11:51 The Radio Room Behind the Night Desk13:40 Sweeping the Step at Dusk15:07 Chairs Going Up as the Fog Pressed In16:25 Five in a Little Office Under the Eaves17:55 Under the Four Empty Hooks19:50 Circling the Plague Column in Fog20:55 Police Before Ten in the Morning22:49 Hops and Cellar Damp in the Back Room24:58 One Bare Bulb and a Knocking Radiator #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
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