September 2024 saw the launch of our brand new podcast – Anderson Audio Adventures. This ongoing audio drama podcast gives Gerry Anderson fans a chance to discover our vast catalogue of action-packed audio dramas and audiobooks based on the classic worlds of Gerry Anderson – and they’re available entirely for free!
Anderson Audio Adventures kicked off in aquatic style with a six-part release of Stingray: Monster from the Deep. With that first series now wrapping up, here’s a selection of further audio adventures that will be released on the podcast over the coming months for you to get excited by. Stand by for audio action!
5. Thunderbirds: Brains is Dead
The Hood succeeds in murdering International Rescue’s engineering genius! Or has he? Emotions and deception run high in this thrilling full-cast audio drama, first released as part of our Thunderbirds Versus the Hood. Adapted from the classic TV Century 21 comic strip story, Brains is Dead sees the Hood hatch one of his most elaborate and surreal plans ever to destroy International Rescue once and for all. Brains is Dead stars Jon Culshaw, Genevieve Gaunt, Justin T. Lee, Wayne Forester and Joe Jameson.
4. Fireball XL5: Cloud of a Billion Lights
Cloud of a Billion Lights sees the crew of Fireball XL5 encounter a strange cosmic cloud who’s inhabitants threatens to take over the World Space Patrol vessel in a desperate plot to overthrow the Earth. This audio drama stars Marc Silk as Steve Zodiac and Genevieve Gaunt as Venus and was originally produced as part of Fireball XL5‘s 60th anniversary Bu-ray set and tells a brand new and authentically produced story for the heroes of the World Space Patrol.
3. Stingray: Operation Icecap
The first of John Theydon’s two original Stingray novels was our first release in bringing Stingray to life in audio form. Operation Icecap is adapted by Ben Page from Theydon’s 1965 Stingray novel and stars Marc Silk, Nicholas Briggs, Wayne Forester and Jules de Jongh in an audio adventure that sees the Stingray crew and Titan race against each other to intercept a strange alien intelligence from the dangerous Antarctica wastelands. What terranean and subterranean forces eventually find is beyond their wildest imaginations!
2. Space Precinct: Demeter City
Discover the definitive origin story of Space Precinct! Demeter City was originally conceived and written by Paul Mayhew-Archer as the opening episode of the cult 1990s TV series. The finished series would come to abandon this establishing story, but it was turned into a novel and accompanying audiobook in 2020 by Richard James. Demeter City charts Lieutenant Patrick Brogan’s debut investigation on the streets of Demeter City, uncovering the sinister secrets behind an arms smuggling operation gone wrong.
1. Thunderbirds: Operation Asteroids
Thunderbirds: Operation Asteroids was released as the third of our adaptations of John Theydon’s classic Thunderbirds novels. Adapted by Ross Arrowsmith, Operation Asteroids takes the members and International Rescue into the depths of space for a deadly full-cast audio adventure that sees the Hood unleash a diabolical plan to target major cities around the Earth.
All of these releases and plenty more will be appearing over the coming months on Anderson Audio Adventures! New episodes are released every Friday, so be sure to subscribe to wherever you get your podcasts from!
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