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Armchair Apocrypha

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A bi-weekly podcast hosted by Andrew Massie and Rachael Clark, Armchair Apocrypha features armchair experts telling stories from the subjects they’re passionate about. Featuring a social servant with theories about mixed martial arts, a barista with opinions about first ladies, and a news content specialist with feelings about ghosts.
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Apocryphal Australia Podcast

Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins

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Apocryphal Australia brings you eye-opening stories from Australia’s past, tales that have been overlooked, forgotten and neglected. We feature fiascos and deal with debacles as well as extol triumphs and acclaim achievements. No deed is too small, no ignominy is too embarrassing. Your hosts are Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins.
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The year is 2187, thirty-one years since the emergence of the Fungal Intelligence, or The FI. Since first discovery, the archivist, Phe and the bio-engineer, Lar have worked with The FI to help advance the medicines, agriculture, and environment in their home-sphere, x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓. Now Phe dreams of expanding the benefits of the FI beyond their home sphere - to achieve revolutionary advancements for all life across Cascadia. The Apocrypha Chronicles is a groundbreaking sci-fi / documentary po ...
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In the hushed circles of the heretical and the hopeful, there are whispered myths of a dark place. A place overgrown, forgotten, lost to the moss and the mists. A coppery putrid decay clings and coils like malodourous vines to the ancient stones and rotted wood of these ruins. Ruins long since abandoned save for those few barbaric enough to survive. Yet, in the oppressive baited silence of this nameless damnation, something stirs. Something hungry. Something that needs to feed. Welcome to Ap ...
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The last episode of Season 2 features: The Master Criminal – a shadowy figure. Barry McKeon – the antipodean Shakesperean. Kenneth Miller – so be it. Manfred Chilbaster – the mysterious calligraphist. Harriet Golongly – speed queen, daredevil, stuntwoman. The Tiny Desert – so sandy, so small.De către Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins
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You simply won't believe it when you hear about: Bob Chapman – good intentions gone astray. George's Variety Extravaganza – that’s showbiz! The Napalm Tests – disaster averted. Inner Empowerment Training – mime your way to success? The Great Apple Nomenclature Scandal – core values. Cicely Marzipan – the profit prophet.…
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For your enjoyment, we bring to you: The Warragul – ahead of its time? Peter Spanaker – eyes right. The Hanging Gardens of Dandenong – extravagant and romantic. Ambrose Quamby – The Man With One Face That No One Could Remember. Rick Heezel – hipster, shyster, fraudster. The Whirly – dance ‘til you drop.…
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What a treasure trove of tales! Charles O’Rourke and Finbar Agarn – wayward explorers. Robert Less – inimitable neologist. Edward Gilby – sidelined aviator. The Tantgallanka Drive-In – in car New Wave. Stan Wollack – artificial additives to the rescue. Zoltan Feshfeshfesh – marsupial cheese, anyone?De către Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins
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In this episode, we proudly bring to light: Gavin Prentice – a reign of terror. Wayne Snow – the Clown Prince of Australian Accountants. The Fast Glacier – icy but speedy. Colin Sangford – The Singing Surgeon. Tansy Strigil – arty, much? The Wreck of the Archibald – airship ahoy.De către Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins
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Look at what we've uncovered! The Malmarsh Rock Festival – the beat goes on. Edward ‘Crispy’ McPherson – amazing. The Kelp Kings of King Island – sea weed and harvest it. Moonlight Beach – haunted but picturesque. North Hummerford – a twitcher’s paradise. The Roscoe-Hannover Affair – I spy spies.De către Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins
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More strange tales and outlandish biographies! Dendy Jumpup – a song, a dance, an inability to complete a motto. Samuel J Krantzberg – the walking legend. The Trans-Australian Railway – all aboard! Hiskins Street – so groovy. The Handelburg Invasion of Australia – unbelievable. The Menington Private Library – an eccentric collection.…
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This episode is proud to bring you: The Great Wall of Jindaberri – they built it. Katherine Hockaday – the Singing Nurse. Pamela Juice – the Voice of Voices. Hadrumetum – the lost Roman town. Hendersons Track – in the wild wilderness. Panombi Rocks – an outstanding outcrop.De către Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins
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This episode features The Election Debate of 1928 – talkfest to end all talkfests. Harley (Slasher) Fontaign– butcher to the stars. Julia Frabu – always first past the post. Trixie Wuff – corporate artist supreme. The ‘Act of God’ Match – the apocalypse stops play? Greytown – the ghost suburb.De către Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins
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Marvel at the Slalom Witch Trials – very athletic persecutions, Misty Dreams – peacekeeper extraordinaire and Lasetter’s Reef – gold fever? Then thrill to accounts of Cruel Nancy – mysterious but ridiculous, the Collapse of the Universal Lattice – antisocial media and Philo Pargetter – hair today, gone tomorrow.…
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Finale Part 2: Equinox After seven suns in quarantine, the travelers receive an urgent message that will drastically change the course of their lives. With the Equinox fast approaching, each of these travelers must confront their beliefs about each other and themselves, and make tough decisions for the sake of the future. ********** Creative Team: …
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Finale Part 1: Quarantine The year is 2187. A group of strangers gather outside of x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ in time for the Equinox. They must first quarantine themselves before entering the sphere. The travelers are met by the famous Archivist Phe, who ushers them in with news of a mysterious and impending message from the Fungal Intelligence. ********** Crea…
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The year is 2217. Coyote is an Outposter who lives in a cabin in the Similkameen Valley. After receiving a surprise visit from his granddaughter Eden, he reminisces about the journey he made 30 years earlier, to the x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ Sphere. It was on this trip that his world view was completely transformed by the chance encounters with a group of stran…
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Hearken back to the walk that the Archivist Phe took to discover the FI— 31 years ago in 2156— in this musical intermission by composers Jessica McMann and Benton Roark. ********** "Footsteps" by Jessica McMann and Benton Roark. From the album The Apocrypha Chronicles: Mycologue Imprints, composed by Jessica McMann and Benton Roark & released March…
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The year is 2187. Uqhuuyaq and Pijujuq are a well known sister duo from the Igluvut Sphere in the far North who have journeyed to x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ to perform in The Show. But they carry with them a great secret, and a quest to help save their homelands. They encounter a strange acolyte outside the x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ Quarantine zone who might risk both their …
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Dr. Eli Wong is an anthropologist, ethnobotanist and documentarian from Tkaron:to. Through her audio documentary “The Messengers”, she recounts her trek across Turtle Island searching for solutions to the consumption and expansion issues that are impacting the East. She connects with Cascasdian communities of Nomads, Outposters, and Spherefolk, wit…
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The year is 2187. In the Quw'utsun Valley, a religious order called The Connection worships the Fungal Intelligence. The young acolyte Huilo must prove his faith through a period of Cloistering, but there is something calling to Huilo from beyond the sea, and he must make a difficult decision between faith and purpose… ********** Creative Team:Dere…
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The year is 2187. In the 31 years since the emergence of the Fungal Intelligence, Phe has travelled across Turtle Island to spread the FI’s message. The FI has helped advance x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓’s medicines, agriculture, and environment, and Phe is working to expand the benefits of the FI to the larger Cascadian region. But this Great Expansion carries a …
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Welcome back to x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ and The Apocrypha Chronicles. The present year is 2187 but this tale begins 31 years in the past when Phe, an archivist and Lar, a bio-engineer, discover a Fungal Intelligence who desperately needs their help. ********** Creative Team: Rae Takei as Phe Mela Pietropaolo as the Fungal Intelligence Stephanie Wong as the My…
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We unearth more stories that need the light of day: The Acquisto–Miller Feud. Unbelievable. Astonishing. Petty. , Milo Hammond, architect, cardsharp, visionary. What a guy. John Hobbs, a convict with convictions. Lonnie Gerk, ‘the mouth from the South-east’. Johnny 'Guitar' Drabbs, whose patisserie influenced songs were both soft-centred and sweet.…
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More extraordinary tales from Australia's past to delight, daunt and dazzle. The Snainton Kidnapping of 1956. Bunglers or criminal geniuses? Archibald Cistoon, one of Australia’s greatest all round athletes, all but unknown today. Penny Mallison, conservationist of the unattractive. Tim Bleary, counter culture guru, with two sugars. The Hard Flood …
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Prepare to be illuminated with these stories! Klemp, a town unlike any other. Adeline Strife, femme fatale or just misunderstood? Annabelle Ritter, the infamous cross country walker. The Hallumbie Caves. So deep, so dark, so puzzling. Canterbury Jones, Australia's finest sculptor. Maybe. The Great Hanslope Vinegar Flood. A disaster and a lesson all…
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A struggling family finds some Midwinter cheer… Episode 4 part 3 "Midwinter Feast" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. ww…
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A man becomes a knight... Episode 4 part 2 "The Enokiknights (pt II)" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromap…
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A boy becomes a man... Episode 4 part 1 "The Enokiknights (pt I)" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromapocry…
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Hold onto your hats for stories about the sadly forgotten Audrey Hinph, perhaps Australia’s greatest ever self-taught mathematician, the rambunctious and long gone town of Judge's Rest and the McLintock Brothers, Austalia's most misguided vignerons. Plus the extraordinary spectacle that is the Running of the Bullants, the ground and ear breaking ef…
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In this episode we bring you the hidden side of the Sunbury music festivals of the 1970s, the unearthly structures that were Shangri Galah, and the epicurean maestro that was Reginald Pilk. And if that's not all, strap yourself in for the stories of Cedric Playford, better known as Mesmo the Great, Felicity Paraparap (Australia’s only international…
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A knight is promoted... Episode 3 part 2 "The Archon" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromapocrypha.com “Tal…
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An acolyte delivers a book... Episode 3 part 1 "The Crimson Chapel" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromapoc…
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Learn all about Warren Maccles, the self-appointed monarch, the highly unusual Lake Treearge and Andrew Cloons - Man or Myth? Plus you might learn more than you really care to know about Gabriel St John Eversley, perhaps the most mysterious member of the First Fleet, the mobile geographical feature that is Mount Hopeless, and the First Church of th…
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Episode 2 features a deep dive into the forgotten Avant Garde art movement known as 'The Alarmists', the life of Sarah McTeeley, Austalia's only known female pirate and the Tate–Sleemington scandal of 1897 that both shocked and amused a nation. Plus we explore the word beating efforts of Ron Lardner, the life of George O'Lean, Australia's real life…
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A leper ascends... Episode 2 part 3 "The Lazarus" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromapocrypha.com “Tales F…
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An immortal dinner party... Episode 2 part 2 "As good as Ted" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromapocrypha.…
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A sailor is shipwrecked... Episode 2 part 1 "The Dance of the Drowned" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfroma…
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The Ossien Temple serves dinner.... Episode 1 part 3 "The Ossien" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromapocry…
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One man indulges in a bath... Episode 1 part 2 "Blood Bath" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.talesfromapocrypha.co…
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Pilgrims brave the desolate wilderness... Episode 1 part 1 "The Baron's Tale" “Tales From Apocrypha” is a fantasy horror anthology podcast. The world of Apocrypha is full of all the creative themes I love: barbarity, tribalism, cannibalism, false prophets, daemons, monsters, dark powers calling out to be heard, and those who heed the calls. www.tal…
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In Episode 1 we investigate the forgotten Synthetic Broadcasts of the 1930s, the innovative impresario Enzo Marelli and perhaps the tallest tree ever to be found in this continent. Plus we highlight the philosophical exploits of Tippi Presbyter, the extraordinary horticultural achievements of Wally Grogan and the life of Alonzo Mirabilis ‘Australia…
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Season Finale: As Equinox festivities approach, Phe shocks Lar with a daring plan to help the mysterious entity from the Myconet. www.apocryphachronicles.ca Creative Team: Rae Takei as Phe Renae Morriseau as Lar Mela Pietropaolo as The FI Directed by and other voices by Stephanie Wong Original music by Benton Roark & Jessica McMann. Written by Jess…
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In the penultimate episode of Season One, Phe has an encounter that strengthens their resolve to take action. www.apocryphachronicles.ca ****************************** Creative Team: Rae Takei as Phe Renae Morriseau as Lar Mela Pietropaolo as The FI Directed by and other voices by Stephanie Wong Original music by Benton Roark & Jessica McMann. Writ…
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Hoping to solve the mystery of the transmission of the voices from the year 2020, Elder Lar performs the ritual of Interweaving with the Myconet, allowing her thoughts to meld with the fungal networks that knit society together. www.apocryphachronicles.ca ****************************** Creative Team: Rae Takei as Phe Renae Morriseau as Lar Mela Pie…
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The mysterious voice accesses the myconet, infusing more messages from the 2020 time capsule. www.apocryphachronicles.caCreative Team:Rae Takei as PheRenae Morriseau as LarMela Pietropaolo as The FIDirected by and other voices by Stephanie WongOriginal music by Benton Roark & Jessica McMann.Written by Jessica Schacht & Paolo Pietropaolo.Audio produ…
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Phe has a startling theory about the origins of the transmission containing the mysterious voices from the past. Lar worries how their community will react. www.apocryphachronicles.ca ****************************** Creative Team: Rae Takei as Phe Renae Morriseau as Lar Mela Pietropaolo as The FI Directed by and other voices by Stephanie Wong Origin…
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Phe shares their discovery with their mentor, Lar, an Elder and bio-engineer. As they debate the meaning of the transmission, the mysterious voices from the past return. www.apocryphachronicles.ca ****************************** Creative Team: Rae Takei as Phe Renae Morriseau as Lar Mela Pietropaolo as The FI Directed by and other voices by Stephani…
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The year is 2156. Phe, a young archivist, is on a mushroom walk in the woods, experimenting with a piece of ancient digital tech. Suddenly, it starts to transmit sound - voices from the past. www.apocryphachronicles.ca *. *. *. *. * Creative Team: Rae Takei as Phe | Renae Morriseau as Lar | Mela Pietropaolo as The FI Directed by and other voices by…
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