Between releasing the Home Front Home Workouts, and our tenth Virtual Race, it’s hard to believe that our first round of New Adventures submissions only took place a year ago and we’re in the process of recording the last of them! We’ve come a long way since then and are currently working our way through our second round of submissions to find our next set of exciting stories.
With that underway, we are taking a look at the New Adventures that we’ve released over the last year!
Between the Lines
A man with mysterious motives, a long abandoned house and a secret that bled into the ground itself. Put your headphones in and enjoy this thrilling audiobook ‘Never Alone’! But there may be more than meets the ear in this deadly tale, by Tom Crowley (Wooden Overcoats podcast).
Genre: Mystery, horror
Length: 1 Episode
A Study in Ichor
A stolen watch, a fleet-footed thief, and the project to build London’s underground railway lead to the discovery of a darker secret lurking in the city’s underbelly. You’d better keep your wits about you in this New Adventure from the Zombies, Run! team.
Genre: Horror, adventure
Length: 5 Episodes
Nellie Bly
Join crusading journalist Nellie Bly as she races to travel around the world in under 80 days. This five-part series by Jessica Wright Buha (Unwell podcast) will take you on a whistle stop tour of the globe in the late 1800s, as Nellie sets off from New York in an attempt to beat the time of Jules Verne’s famous novel.
Genre: Historical adventure
Length: 5 Episodes
Wreck Runner
Welcome to SolFleet! As a member of a salvage crew, you explore the remains of spaceships, recover abandoned supplies, information, and sometimes people. But when a ship missing for a decade emerges from hiding, you might have bigger problems than meeting your salvage quota in this New Adventure from Mur Lafferty (EscapePod, Ditch Diggers, Six Wakes), and Alasdair Stuart (Escape Artists podcast).
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure
Length: 3 Episodes
Volcano Race
As a technical intern working to gather data on Mt. Archie, you expected the work to be hard – you didn’t expect it to be life threatening. When you pick up abnormal readings from the mountain, it’s clear that an eruption is imminent, and you’re in the blast radius, in this two-part New Adventure by Alex Acks (Superhero Workout, Hunger Makes the Wolf).
Genre: Action, science
Length: 2 Episodes (1 training mission + 10K race)
Dinosaur Dash
A top secret research outpost beneath the ice has made an amazing discovery – living dinosaurs! But some of the research team have gone missing, and there’s evidence of sabotage. You’ll need to move quickly to save your people before the dinos get them, in this thrilling race from Andrea Phillips (The Walk, America Inc.)
Genre: Action, adventure
Length: 3 episodes (2 training missions +5K/10K race)
Little Red
Dare you go into the woods at night? You’re a mercenary hired to protect one small girl visiting a relative, but there’s a monster on the loose, and grandmother’s house is so very far away. You’d better move quickly, because there are worse things than wolves waiting in the dark, in this creepy tale by Corvyn Appleby.
Genre: Horror, dark fantasy
Length: 1 Episode
Venus Rising
Pandora Haze’s Venus colony is a marvel of engineering. But something has gone very wrong. With the colony out of contact for weeks, you are sent in as the rescue squad. Will you find the survivors there? Or is there something much worse waiting for you?
Genre: Sci-fi Horror
Length: 5 Episodes
Run Olympus Mons
Put on your space suit and travel across the surface as Mars as you climb the tallest mountain in the solar system – Olympus Mons. With your guide, scale cliffs and cross craters as you learn about the history and science of the red planet.
Genre: Non-fiction
Length: 1 Episode
Rule Britannia
A letter from the Roman Emperor could lead to peace between your camp, and the Pictish forces you’re at war with. But there’s a dark plan afoot, and worse things than enemy warriors in the world. Travel back to Roman Britain and encounter some familiar faces in this New Adventure from the Zombies, Run! team.
Genre: Action-adventure
Length: 5 Episodes
Grand Canyon
Created over the course of millions of years, the Grand Canyon is one of the wonders of the natural world. In this 5k or 10k mission by Alex Acks (Superhero Workout, Hunger Makes the Wolf), journey along the full 446km length of the Grand Canyon to explore its fascinating cultural and geological history.
Genre: Non-fiction
Length: 2 Episodes (1 Training mission + 5K/10K race)
Matchmaker
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Can a matchmaking service using all the latest tech really find a perfect match? Antonia and Laura definitely think so, and have agreed to record a ringing endorsement for the company. But is wedded bliss truly on the horizon for the couple? Mistakes, missed connections, and meddling relatives, stand in the way of happiness in this romantic comedy by Emily Short (BBC Game Over, Sunless Sea).
Genre: Romantic comedy
Length: 1 Episode
Home Run
In conjunction with Internet League Blaseball, we present to you this special broadcast! Become Blaseball star Pendleton Hampers as you take on the pitcher’s mound and the horrors that lie beyond. Run the bases as if your life depended on it!
Genre: Blaseball, weird
Length: 1 Episode
Lewis and Clark
Join your ChronoRun time travel companion as you embark on a journey across North America and learn about the trials and tribulation of Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the Pacific in this 2-part New Adventure by Alex Acks (Superhero Workout, Hunger Makes the Wolf).
Genre: Historical non-fiction
Length: 2 Episodes (1 Training Mission + 10K race)
Track the Ripper
Team up with Detective Marsh and Sergeant Swift to catch Jack the Ripper before the next attack!
Genre: Historical drama
Length: 1 Episode
Journey to the Centre of the Eye
Shrink down to the size of a photon, and explore the inner workings of your eye and how every part works together to allow you to see!
Genre: Non-fiction
Length: 1 Episode (10K race)
Run the Solar System
From the heat of the sun, to the outermost icy planets, explore the breadth of our solar system. The race chronicles a journey from the Sun to Neptune, with a bonus astronaut training mission to prepare you for space!
Genre: Non-fiction
Length: 2 Episodes (1 Training Mission + 10K race)
Run with the Ancestors
Travel back in time one million years to explore the earliest days of humans in Britain. Explore a landscape dominated by mammoths and sabre-toothed cats, and learn about the changing fortunes of the people who first set foot on this land.
Genre: Non-fiction
Length: 1 Episode (5K or 10K race)
Run to the Deep
Explore the ocean, from the surface to depths of the abyss! Accompanied by explorer Pierre-Yves Cousteau, discover amazing seascapes and alien environments, and the creatures that live beneath the waves.
Genre: Non-fiction
Length: 1 Epsiode
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