6 Best Prison Audio Drama Podcasts

1. We're Alive

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We're Alive is an award-winning audio drama that follows a group of Survivors in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles now ruled by the 'Infected.'It begins with 'A Story of Survival' which spans from Chapters 1-48. Our survivors band together, fortify a safe haven known as the Tower, and discover that the Infected are far from the biggest threat they will have to face.The adventure continues with:'Lockdown' - A small group of inmates and prison guards are trapped in the T-block at Twin Towers Jail...more Host Kc Wayland
Producer/Network Wayland Productions Inc
Email ****@waylandproductions.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 250k-1M
Recent Guests Jataun Gilbert, Hajin Cho +23 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 13.1KFacebook 40.7KTwitter 11.3KInstagram 6.5K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. The Ballad Of Anne & Mary

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It's 1721, and London is abuzz with news of notorious pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, currently languishing in Newgate Prison. It's the perfect time for debt-ridden journalist Nathaniel Mist to exploit the public appetite and ghost-write a sensational (and hopefully best-selling) history of pirates. But as the balladeers and gossips on the streets of London build myths around the blood-thirsty, perverse lady pirates, Mist is forced to reckon with the real Bonny & Read.....more Producer/Network Long Cat Media
Email ****@longcatmedia.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Beth Eyre, Lucy Roslyn +9 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 160 Avg Length 20 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

3. This Thing of Darkness

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Award-winning drama exploring the psychological impact of murder. Inspired by a real forensic psychologist and her work in secure prisons.
Host Lolita Chakrabarti
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Maureen Beattie, Helen Mackay +6 more
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 134 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. Forbidden Diary: True WWII Prison Survival Story

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[NEW: To see the faces behind the characters' voices, go to www.storiestovoice.com/fd-cast]       Audio-drama based on a WWII diary written by Natalie Crouter during her internment in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. Three weeks after the first bombings of the Philippines on December 8, 1941, Natalie, her family, and 500 civilians were marched at gunpoint to a deserted U.S. military post (Season One: 1941). Thus began their survival story of body and mind from 1942 to 1945...more Producer/Network Sai Mun Gani Productions
Email ****@att.net
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Jim Zobel, Curt Brooks
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 24 Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. 13 Days of Halloween

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Season Four: PenanceWithout warning, Sayuri has been locked up in the Pendleton Rehabilitation Center, and no one is willing or able to tell her why. Actually, getting any information from her fellow inmates or the labyrinthine bureaucracy that runs the facility seems impossible. But is the Pendleton really a prison, or something else? Starring Natalie Morales. New episodes air daily from October 19th through Halloween.more Host Keegan-Michael Key
Producer/Network iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
Email ****@grimandmild.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 2.9KFacebook 2.9KInstagram 8K Avg Length 21 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. Better Men Elsewhere

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A convict is sentenced to the strange town of Coventry, where mysterious occurrences and political strife make his sentence more dangerous than he ever could have imagined.Better Men Elsewhere is an American thriller with elements of the supernatural, magical realism, and gothic fiction. Follow Jason Miranda, a prisoner sentenced to the mysterious mountain town of Coventry for 10 years for his crimes. Coventry is not your usual town and it is not your usual prison...more Producer/Network Chiral Studios
Email ****@chiralstudios.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Garrett McKenna, Mitchell Lee +9 more
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 14Facebook 210Instagram 328 Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact