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We’re travelling through the English countryside in the first Local Files Club release, Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop, a five-part audiodrama from Skadi’s Symphony and starring Greta Clarkson as the eponymous witch. Best known for their series Kane and Feels, Skadi’s Symphony brings its unique take on witchcraft, tea-brewing, and cats to Local Files Club for our inaugural release. Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop follows the adventures of a tea witch who breaks down in the small village of Talford. As she waits for her van to be repaired, Ms. Shipton sets up shop and meets the locals—a farmer, a publican, and a priest—exploring themes of loneliness, companionship, and queerness through five vignettes. This audiodrama is presented along with a bonus poem, five commentary episodes from the creators and stars, the soundtrack by Oliver Morris, and original art by Rosie Shooter and Stardust Mansion.
“There is no life in the water. There is no life inside the clouds. There is no life inside of me—and it’s a nice day to splash about in the shallows.” So begins Salt Bloom, a captain’s log in two parts. From celebrated audiodrama producer and author Justin Hellstrom, best known for his series The Great Chameleon War and co-creating The Goblet Wire, Salt Bloom imagines the surreal sounds of an alien world for the second Local Files Club release. Salt Bloom follows a Soln SARC-17 exobiology survey robot exploring the endless, globe-spanning ocean of Salsuné 11b. Day by day, this SARC-17 unit navigates the waters while seeding myths, searching for salt-ridden omens, and stealing data from its overseer in orbit. “I am in a constant state of failure,” the SARC-17 admits, but its will extends far beyond circuits and programming. It will never stop searching. Searching for life. Searching for miracles. Searching for a hand to hold in an ocean where there are none. Salt Bloom is presented in two parts and comes paired with the original soundtrack and a twelve-page, fully-illustrated guidebook to the SARC-17’s psyche.
