17 Best Village Audio Drama Podcasts

1. Welcome to Night Vale

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Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time. Or, go right to Episode 1 if you wanna binge-listen.more Host Cecil Baldwin
Producer/Network Night Vale Presents
Email ****@welcometonightvale.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1M+
Recent Guests Jasika Nicole, Meg Bashwiner
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 37.7KFacebook 345.6KTwitter 331.4KInstagram 126.2K Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Since Jun 2012 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 Archers

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Contemporary drama in a rural setting.
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Estimated Monthly Listeners 250k-1M
Recent Guests Brian Aldridge, Ben Archer +48 more
Apple Rating 3.9/5Apple Reviews 11.1KFacebook 92KTwitter 57.4K Avg Length 14 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

3. Wooden Overcoats

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Award Winning Sitcom || Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family's failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find everyone enjoying themselves at the funerals of a new competitor the impossibly perfect Eric Chapman! With their dogsbody Georgie, and a mouse called Madeleine, the Funns are taking drastic steps to stay in business…more Hosts Belinda Lang, Felix Trench, Beth Eyre, Ciara Baxendale, Tom Crowley, Andy Secombe
Producer/Network Wooden Overcoats Ltd
Email ****@woodenovercoats.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 3.3KFacebook 2.8KTwitter 6.9KInstagram 3K Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2015 Get Email Contact

4. Bloodrock Springs

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Mark R. Healy (The Strata, The Road of Shadows) returns with an exciting new audio drama. Bloodrock Springs is an engrossing thrill-ride for the listener, full of mystery, horror, suspense and a good dash of Aussie humour as well. After an ominous cloud of dust surrounds a small outback town, the group of residents who are trapped within soon realise that they are not alone. Together they must find a way to solve the mystery before they too become victims of the strange forces that surround them.more Producer/Network Mark R. Healy
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Thomas Barker, Marlon Dance-Hooi +3 more
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 40 Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. Tales from Three Corners

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The award winning short fiction podcast on village life - In no particular order.Three Corners is just your average small town. But like all small towns, scratch the surface, and you'll be surprised at what you find underneath. In that sense Three Corners is really no different to any other small town I know, except perhaps, for some of the characters you might meet.more Producer/Network Jacq
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 34Twitter 263Instagram 783 Avg Length 7 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

6. Dyme: An Original Appalachian Horror Audio Drama

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A Gothic Horror Audio Drama. In Southern Appalachia, the Hathsbury family has kept the town of Dyme safe for generations. Something big has begun to move beneath the hills, but there's only one member of the family left, and she's got no idea what she's doing. Clara Hathsbury wants nothing more than to keep Dyme safe and find her missing mother, but no one else believes in haints, boogers, and ghosts or the stories Clara tells. In fact, most of the town thinks she's insane...more Producer/Network Devin
Email ****@gmail.com
Avg Length 23 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

7. The Poo-Finder Generals

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Frustrated by a growing doo-poo plague enveloping their village, Godfrey and Mavis become dog-poo investigators- tracking down criminal dog-owners and bringing them to justice. They report their findings on their self-made community radio show: Poo Watch. A new comedy audio-drama.more Producer/Network Down the Well Productions
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

8. What the Pig Promised

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A surreal audio drama about a village caught in a loop it can't remember, a sky without stars, and the strange lives drawn into its orbit.In Gratch Hollow, a dying stranger wakes to the same violent moment again and again. A pig-man named Jon, hulking and powerful, offers comfort to those who need it. The seamstress tells stories of constellations no one has seen. And a young girl named Sara studies equations that could rewire all of time.Many of their truths never happened.Written, narrated, and produced by Shawn Fitzmaurice.Voiceover Nerd Productions, Inc. © 2025 All rights reserved.more Producer/Network Voiceover Nerd Productions - Shawn Fitzmaurice
Email ****@voiceovernerd.com
Recent Guest Shelly Fear
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

9. Speck A Folk Horror Audio Drama

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A quiet English village. A dark and paranormal history. Join host Mina Giddens, your guide to this land of endless green fields and horror that lurks behind every hedge, to meet the inhabitants of Speck. Prepare for stories of lingering ghosts, unsettling creatures, and bizarre crimes. Uncanny tales. Released weekly..To contact the show: https://www.jadejiao.com/contactTo help support the show: https://ko-fi.com/jadejiao .This podcast is a work of fiction. Some episodes may be inspired by real events; all characters and details are fictionalised.more Producer/Network Jade Jiao
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

10. Krishna- The Marvellous Mischief Maker

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Audio drama depicting the eternal, enchanting escapades from the childhood of India's Favourite Boy- Krishna. Presented as full fledged audio drama, performed by little Krishnas and Gopis. Come, listen in, join the magic. Perfect for car drives, bed time stories, listen and drift away to the magical land that was Krishna's.more Producer/Network Anuradha Venugopal
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 9 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

11. Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

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Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from Audacious Machine Creative.Unwell is complete- listen to all five seasons now!Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents.more Hosts Eleanor Hyde, Jeffrey Nils Gardner, Clarisa Cherie Rios, Marsha Harman, Michael Turrentine, Amelia Bethel, Pat King, Hilary Williams, Anuja Vaidya, Mark Soloff, Krista DAgostino
Producer/Network Audacious Machine Creative
Email ****@ourfaircity.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 2.8KFacebook 1.7KTwitter 3.1K Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2019 Get Email Contact

12. Up In Smoke

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Adam Buxton and Mei Mac star in a true crime podcast about a fictional event. In 2014 a devastating house fire shatters the quiet life of Greenloch, a rural English village. Teenager Mason Miller is presumed dead in the blaze. When investigators sift through the ashes, no trace of his body is found.The mystery of Mason's disappearance ignites a global media frenzy...more Hosts Adam Buxton, Mei Mac
Producer/Network Penny4
Email ****@guylarsen.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 213 Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

13. Pembroke Investigations

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Pembroke Investigates follows Charlie Pembroke, a former cop turned private investigator, who is drawn to the small village of Fort Augustus to help his old university friend, Anna Forrester, after an ancient amulet is stolen from the local museum. What starts as a simple theft case quickly spirals into a dark mystery involving occult rituals linked to Aleister Crowley.As Charlie digs deeper, he uncovers a web of secrets involving the museum, the locals, and the mysterious disappearance of Jamie, a museum employee...more Producer/Network InknPaws
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 25 Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

14. The Town with No Name

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Welcome to The Town with No Name! Here, you'll find a community of gunslingers and tune singers. But be wary; a dark shadow looms over this little village's inhabitants. Each of the many townfolks, from that no-good Whiskers to the big-fished starlet Joanna Porter, find themselves haunted by a dastardly figure named X. The Town with No Name is an ensemble tragicomedy about avoiding responsibility packed with catchy earworms sure to be stuck in your head stronger than a bullet in a tight-knit wound...more Producer/Network Sommer Stories
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 3.8/5Apple Reviews 8 Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. Greenvoe

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An adaptation by Alan Plater of George Mackay Brown's novel.An audio play performed by Orkney's St Magnus Players.Directed by Penny Aberdein with music by John Gray.Four episodes. Episode 1 release: 10 January 2025, then weekly.Greenvoe centres on the fate of a traditional Orkney village on the mythical island of Hellya. The natural rhythms of Orkney life are shattered when a mysterious external company, Black Star, suddenly arrives to buy out the islanders and displace them from their homes...more Producer/Network St Magnus Players
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

16. The Maiden and The Dragon

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Medieval drama series. Marian is a 13yr old girl who longs to have control over her own destiny, to be free. But she lives in a small village in Northumbria, England.And the year is... 1377. Freedom is nowhere to be seen. Until, one day she finds a strange creature down the village well, and everything changes...Real historical events and medieval village setting blend with ancient folklore.more Producer/Network Good Intent Media
Email ****@goodintentmedia.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

17. Pioneer Audio Drama

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Based off the short story by Nicholas Woods, Pioneer: Drama/ Period/ HorrorIn 1851, after experiencing a recent tragedy a family travels to live with relatives in a prospering mining village only to discover something dark is taking over the residents.Visual version on YouTube.more Producer/Network Phoenix Down Films
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 2.5/5Apple Reviews 8 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact