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Remnants : An Audio Drama
Eira Major's Hanging Sloth
60 episodes
3 weeks ago


A dark fantasy thriller audio drama.


When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place...


Remnants is a dark fantasy thriller audio drama following the Apprentice as he learns how to read remnants under the frustrating supervision of Sir. Remnants are seemingly innocuous objects – a broken pocket watch; a steel thimble; a silk scarf – but when the Apprentice looks closely, he sees how each one holds the remnants of someone’s life story.


Each week the Apprentice reads a new remnant, following that person’s journery beginning to end. When he’s done, he must make a judgement; shelve or discard. But he doesn’t know what the criteria is or what the consequences of such a judgement might be.


The more remnants the Apprentice reads, the more we begin to understand the magnitude of the task he has been set. And the more both we, and the Apprentice himself, wonder why it is him who has been chosen to do it.


With every week, a new mystery. With every new mystery, a terrible choice.


Find out more about Remnants here.


Remnants is a part of the Rusty Quill Network.


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A dark fantasy thriller audio drama.


When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place...


Remnants is a dark fantasy thriller audio drama following the Apprentice as he learns how to read remnants under the frustrating supervision of Sir. Remnants are seemingly innocuous objects – a broken pocket watch; a steel thimble; a silk scarf – but when the Apprentice looks closely, he sees how each one holds the remnants of someone’s life story.


Each week the Apprentice reads a new remnant, following that person’s journery beginning to end. When he’s done, he must make a judgement; shelve or discard. But he doesn’t know what the criteria is or what the consequences of such a judgement might be.


The more remnants the Apprentice reads, the more we begin to understand the magnitude of the task he has been set. And the more both we, and the Apprentice himself, wonder why it is him who has been chosen to do it.


With every week, a new mystery. With every new mystery, a terrible choice.


Find out more about Remnants here.


Remnants is a part of the Rusty Quill Network.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Remnants : An Audio Drama
41. 'Stars'

Sir is reaching a place of desperatioN and is desperate to find anY meaning in it.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-41/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DVEZERuJtevZbpgn1UwiqxtiAh-PrFHXxVxgtKXEbp8/edit?usp=sharing


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Depictions of emotional distress
  • Mentions of sex and references to sexual intimacy
  • Mentions of death
  • Discussions of mental illness
  • Implications of suicide
  • Depictions of extremely negative headspace
  • Hard drug use


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2 days ago
25 minutes 41 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
40. Dripping Paint

The Apprentice continues to read the empty canvas with dripping paint, and a faMiliar imAge begins to emerge.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-40/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mCkvc3C8iytpkrIf3TGK03VOfx2HkJB79ydNm7Ahcfw/edit?tab=t.0


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

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CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Scenes with nudity and references to sex
  • Descriptions of artwork depicting violent scenes, including dead animals
  • Violent death
  • Depictions of pain and panic
  • Repeated mentions of blood and bleeding
  • Scenes with heavy emotional distress
  • Depictions of extreme panic and fear


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3 weeks ago
26 minutes 6 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
39. Empty Canvas

The Apprentice and Sir find themselves in Another new place, but still find more queStions than answers.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-39/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CIkPR0cIZ3jYk1Hwhof4V_rpkbyofSRSk8FfzErnDkw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.88ooz7d9i2g8


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

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CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Depictions of emotional distress
  • Depictions of a character in psychological pain
  • Ominous sense of threat
  • Descriptions of blood and injury from glass


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1 month ago
30 minutes 33 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Intermission: Apprentice Reads 'All the World's a Stage'

Hi! I’m Eira, the voice of Sir and the Apprentice, and also the person who writes this show, sound designs it, and puts it out into the world. There’s no new episode of the show this week because I’ve been unwell and haven’t been able to finish it, so instead, you’ll be hearing this intermission, which features the Apprentice reading a Shakespeare monologue. I hope you enjoy it.


All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.


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1 month ago
2 minutes 6 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
38. Burnished Brass Key

Sir and the Apprentice find in a half-familiar plaCe, and the Apprentice triEs to bargain for something, though he’s not sure what he’s asking for.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-38/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1THkSjJ84qdV4QTO9mjcCOmfLym57jhUYyxWEb5LvyCQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.88ooz7d9i2g8


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Depictions of emotional distress
  • Depictions of a character in psychological pain
  • Ominous sense of threat
  • Descriptions of blood and injury from glass


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Thanks to my incredible supporters on Patreon. Without you, this show could not exist.


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1 month ago
24 minutes 46 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
37. Half-Full Perfume Bottle

Sir struggles when his experiences mirror those of his Apprentice, and he Wonders what it means if the power in his possessIon is so far beyond his understanding.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-37/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rfkOQVbtBYmZASGpsKQ-nigETYkpaVgPgiUCQPyAkw/edit?usp=sharing


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death, including the death of a child
  • Descriptions of life in a war zone
  • Sound effects mimicking distant gunfire (quiet)
  • Depictions of mourning
  • Depictions of lasting trauma
  • Mention of potential people-trafficking (vague, non-specific)


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1 month ago
34 minutes 4 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
36. Half-Empty Perfume Bottle

Sir takes the reins aGain, but it’s not clear whether things are back to normal, or whether they have become someThing new.

Transcript with content warnings:


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-36/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ohrTCN1d6TFV7w6pFVsx7dyYoUFMlpy-iKI4w4xanDs/edit?usp=sharing


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

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CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Amnesia
  • Mentions of severe sickness
  • Discussions of complex grieving processes
  • References to casual racism, specifically anti-black racism
  • Mentions of ableism typical of the 1930s-40s, with regard to autism
  • Discussions of war, specifically references to WW1 in both France and Uganda, and descriptions of life in occupied France during WW2
  • Descriptions of explosions, smoke and gunfire
  • Depictions of characters in pain and emotional distress
  • Deliberate psychological harm


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Thanks to my incredible supporters on Patreon. Without you, this show could not exist.


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2 months ago
28 minutes 53 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
35. Shard of Glass

The Apprentice wanders in the dust, and spots somethIng familiar in the distaNce.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-35/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/138XTk5TvnC_1LzbmOv8sAw1T_78Jy5sbyOHTVj2D8eQ/edit?tab=t.0


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

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CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Amnesia
  • Surreality
  • Manipulation


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Thanks to my incredible supporters on Patreon. Without you, this show could not exist.


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2 months ago
22 minutes 28 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
34. Wooden Horse

AnothEr remnant is found half-submergEd in sand.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-34/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/137BjXvk2hrbpIOCKaIb64Bl4KHwy0sI8C9YEUhFwuUw/edit?usp=sharing


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

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CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Description of corpses
  • Child labour
  • Gaslightlighting
  • Descriptions of sex
  • Violent death


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2 months ago
28 minutes 43 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
33. Footprints

The Apprentice Finds markS on the floor


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-33/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CYIhL3aCYD-5JQ8OUTbzC5YRkp31XrDagAbkFUoEhYo/edit?usp=sharing


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Descriptions of child abuse
  • Discussion of abortion as an option
  • Mentions of violent car crash 
  • Descriptions of injuries
  • Discussion of still birth
  • Depictions of pre-1950s care for people with disabilities (the portrayal is caring and tender, but there is reference to abusive systems others are attempting to impose)
  • Implications of sex
  • Death in childbirth
  • References to war
  • Mentions of violent death in the context of war


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2 months ago
32 minutes 24 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
32. Broken Rosary

Sir finds An old piece of jeweLlery.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-32/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ki7LfgJ0CHIQZ6jVU4N55WXtcqm_4Y0FxYQUH1drM0Y/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.88ooz7d9i2g8


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussion of death
  • Description of corpses
  • Mentions of fascism 
  • Implications of child neglect, from the POV of the neglecter
  • Discussions of seizures
  • Portrayal of memory loss


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(If you're looking for a key, it is at the end the first glimpse. Are you listening?)


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2 months ago
32 minutes 22 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
31. The Statue

Things have chAnged in the First and Last PlaCe.


Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants-transcripts/2-31/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tGydLa1ii0uvTlFcUDMPyR1vzbt84l9EiOIn22oxPms/edit?tab=t.0


Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/hangingsloths

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CONTENT WARNINGS:

  • Discussions of death and grief
  • Surreality
  • Mentions of murder
  • References to drug use/abuse


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(If you're looking for a key, it is at the end the first glimpse. Are you listening?)


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3 months ago
22 minutes 12 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Introducing my new show: The Twelvelms Conspiracy

Cyan Goodman did not belong at Twelvelms and everyone knew it. Especially him.


Find out more about the show: https://hangingslothstudios.com/twelvelms/

Explore the world: https://twelvelms.wordpress.com/world/

Listen to episodes early and ad free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/hangingslothstudios


Episode Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/ttc-1-1/


Content Warnings

  • Descriptions of self-inflicted injury, in a ritual setting
  • Implications of arson
  • Discussion of child abuse and neglect
  • Description of violent murder


The Twelvelms Conspiracy is an audio drama created, written, edited and performed by Eira Major under a Creative Commons 4.0 Noncommercial Attribution License. In network with Rusty Quill.


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3 months ago
32 minutes 31 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Season Two Trailer: Does it worry you?

[WHOOSH]

[MUSIC BOX STARTS]


SIR

Does it worry you that everything is different? 


APPRENTICE

Honestly, I think it would worry me more if it was the same. 


[WHOOSH]

[MUSIC BOX STARTS, SLOWER]


‘Who are you?’ he asks.

‘I don’t know anymore. I’m not sure I ever did.’ 


[WHOOSH]

[MUSIC BOX STARTS, EVEN SLOWER]


APPRENTICE

No it— well it is your fault, frankly, but there’s no point in getting angry with you about it. It’s not like you remember anyway. 


SIR

I remember we were here and there was nothing. I remember you spoke about the Remnants. They tell stories. You said that to me.


[WHOOSH]

[MUSIC BOX CRANKS, BUT DOESN'T START]


Remnants returns for its second season on 6th October, 2025.


- .... . / --- -. .-.. -.-- / .-- .- -.-- / --- ..- - / .. ... / - .... .-. --- ..- --. ....


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4 months ago
1 minute 9 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
S2 Announcement, and Patreon Overhaul!

Hey folks!

So remember how I said at the end of the Q&A that Remnants would be coming out 25th August unless something went wrong? I think I might have jinxed myself by saying that out loud, because something did go wrong! But that’s okay. Release is being pushed back until 6th of October which is just six weeks after the original planned release date.


The shape of this season is a liiiiiittle bit different to season one! There will be thirty episodes of the show, and they’ll be releasing in ten episode blocks, with three week gaps in between each block. Those gaps will be filled with more Real Remnants! Hopefully this will be fun.


But! In order to make Season Two of Remnants happen, I need your help! I’ve just COMPLETELY overhauled my Patreon to make it better and more sustainable. There’s a bunch of new offerings over there, and you can still access all the Creator’s Notes for Season One, PLUS ad-free access to the all thirty episodes of S1.


For Season Two, you’ll be able to get Early Access to episodes as they release, INCLUDING access to Remnants S2’s first episode a full ten days before everyone else. S2 will be getting Creator’s Notes just like S1, and there will be bonus remnants you can read which expand the world of the show.


Patreon supporters also get thanks in the credits of my Season Finales. But something cool for everyone who signs up before Remnants S2 starts airing in October at Mega Slothling Tier or higher will get their name listed on the Hanging Sloth Website forEVER. What’s more; if you sign up at Ginormous Slothling Tier and choose an annual subscription, rather than a monthly one, you’ll get your name listed as a Patreon Producer on an episode of Remnants S2!


I’ve put more information about the Patreon overhaul over on my Patreon, which I’ve linked in the description below!


In a perfect world, I’d be able to make my work without financial support, but as a working class creator who makes art as a full time job, this just isn’t possible. I’m a one man team, and I absolutely love making my work happen. But I really can’t do it without your support.


If you can’t support me on Patreon right now, don’t’ worry, there are other things you can do to help the show. You can talk about it on social media; make fan art; share it with your friends; and leave ratings and reviews wherever you’re listening right now.


I’m really looking forward to bringing season two of Remnants to you later this year, and I really hope you’ll consider supporting me on Patreon. I’ll speak to you again soon. Until then, buh bye!


Patreon overhaul post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/132291171/


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6 months ago
2 minutes

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Season One Q&A

This was very fun to put together, which I'm sure you'll be able to tell the amount of times I just start laughing in this recording. Spoilers for Remnants S1, of course, and content warnings for discussions of elements that appear in the show, including mental illness, death, grief and addiction.


Support the show on Patreon for bonus content and early access when S2 starts up: https://www.patreon.com/c/hangingslothstudios


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7 months ago
31 minutes 34 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Real Remnants 6: Mustard Gas & Chemotherapy


This time, we look at medical innovation in the context of war (and beyond!) and how observation led to the development of a treatment for cancer from a chemical weapon.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gHlENF6TdVCouRCb4ViW2eX97TZonNOfZlJzlX-Le2E/edit?usp=sharing


For Early Access to the next part of Real Remnants and Remnants' second season when it starts airing, support me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


A note: this episode mentions the development of the polio vaccine. This vaccine's development is wacky and absolutely wild in its own right, and many of the methods used, particularly early in the process, were completely bonkers and would not hold up to modern scrutiny; indeed many were criticised even at the time. The point is to highlight a case where people were not non-consensually used to innovate medically, NOT to highlight an example of a perfect developmental process. If I can find an excuse to talk about the development of the polio vaccine in more depth at some point, I absolutely will because it is completely wild.


Further reading, for those compelled to dig deeper:

  • Visual breakdown of the Haber Process: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9tvw6f/revision/1
  • Deeper overview of mustard gas’ development into chemotherapy: https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/08/27/mustard-gas-from-the-great-war-to-frontline-chemotherapy/
  • 'Medical Bondage' by Dr Deirdre Cooper Owens: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pwt69x (available in many libraries and for purchase online, too)
  • Introductory essay on ‘Medical Bondage’: https://www.thenationalbookreview.com/features/2021/2/26/qhy31dvkoyk2hdgi00iwfjarn17n8a

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7 months ago
7 minutes 59 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Real Remnants 5: Girls in Domestic Service

Hi folks! This episode explores the lives of girls in domestic service, providing what I hope is an interesting basic overview of how the profession has evolved from the Victorian period into today.


Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W22S9Tir5l0wBrmVlXY_JZkffZ6dLrmYftrEXcNVaZA/edit?usp=sharing


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Good starting points for exploring these topics more deeply:

  • Learn about Victorian housemaids: https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/women-and-domestic-service-in-victorian-society/
  • Changes in domestic service through the 30s in WW2: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/1939register/domestic-service-in-1939
  • Wages for domestic servants: https://www.chatsworth.org/news-media/news-blogs-press-releases/from-servants-to-staff-blog-series/from-servants-to-staff-how-much/
  • The state of the modern cleaning industry: https://www.policybee.co.uk/blog/uk-cleaning-industry-statistics
  • Modern domestic slavery: https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/domestic-work-and-slavery/



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8 months ago
10 minutes 34 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Real Remnants 4: Cairo in the 1970s

Hi folks! In the fourth installment of Real Remnants, we're taking a look at Cairo in the 1970s, as it undergoes a massive transformation in urban planning, culture and architecture, touching on some of the broader political contexts surrounding this period in Egypt.


Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W0Ju7CyExyJuUQ1oX8ii1oRiatSCYO5PO2_GEx2_emc/edit?tab=t.0


For Early Access to the next part of Real Remnants and Remnants' second season when it starts airing, support me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios


Good starting points for exploring these topics more deeply:

  • Overview of the definition and planning of the Greater Cairo Region: https://marsadomran.info/en/2024/04/3265/
  • Farid’s Introduction to Egyptian Cinema: https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2011/introduction-to-egyptian-cinema/
  • British Pathé footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW6zEDfN8Go
  • ThamesTV footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8JMRpLfOc



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8 months ago
7 minutes 34 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama
Real Remnants 3: Protecting Art During WW2

Hi folks! Join me for this third installment of Real Remnants, where we take a peek at some of the extraordinary efforts taken to protect and recover artwork during the Second World War, and discuss a little of how much artwork was still lost and destroyed despite these incredible efforts.


Transcript available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R40WMirR3efER8fchx3FVHG3rb-3-rNp0GcMU8W7AgI/edit?usp=sharing


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If you found this interesting and want to take a further look, here are some resources to get you started:

  • Mental Floss article about Jaujard: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84865/how-mona-lisa-escaped-destruction-during-world-war-ii
  • Monuments Men and Women Foundation website: https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/
  • The Met’s MFAA lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlovfRhcQpU

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9 months ago
9 minutes 54 seconds

Remnants : An Audio Drama


A dark fantasy thriller audio drama.


When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place...


Remnants is a dark fantasy thriller audio drama following the Apprentice as he learns how to read remnants under the frustrating supervision of Sir. Remnants are seemingly innocuous objects – a broken pocket watch; a steel thimble; a silk scarf – but when the Apprentice looks closely, he sees how each one holds the remnants of someone’s life story.


Each week the Apprentice reads a new remnant, following that person’s journery beginning to end. When he’s done, he must make a judgement; shelve or discard. But he doesn’t know what the criteria is or what the consequences of such a judgement might be.


The more remnants the Apprentice reads, the more we begin to understand the magnitude of the task he has been set. And the more both we, and the Apprentice himself, wonder why it is him who has been chosen to do it.


With every week, a new mystery. With every new mystery, a terrible choice.


Find out more about Remnants here.


Remnants is a part of the Rusty Quill Network.


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