160 - Thesmophoria

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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// A SACRED, SECRET RITE // A HUSBAND'S SUSPICION // AN OFFERING TO THE GODDESS The Wrong Station journeys into the hills and deep into the earth in... "Thesmophoria." Written by Alexander Saxton, and performed by Anthony Botelho. Celebrate 10 seasons of Wrong Station by subscribing to our Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/thewrongstation⁠. Explore brand new benefits, hundreds of hours of bonus content, and help ensure Wrong Station stays on the air for another 10 years. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at ⁠www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The wonder working cars in the precious...
0:07.0	...competible as they seem are not the results of mass of terrorism.
0:16.0	You may wish to adjust the dial you were currently tuned into.
0:23.5	The wrong station.
0:25.4	The wrong station. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm 3. Callaghaniah, the ritual obscenity.
1:16.5	Fire flickered against the painted walls of the men's quarters, the low chatter of conversation,
1:22.7	the pluck of the lyre and soft piping of the owless flute, the murmur of a small drum. Over by the open window,
1:30.9	a cortisone laughed and shivered for a moment in the autumn wind. Somewhere, a kylix broke.
1:37.2	Men made lewd comments as a woman bent over to tidy up the shards. Bautus flicked the dregs of his drinking cup at a target on the wall.
1:46.9	It was a mural there, a portrait of the nine lyric poets, and Sappho had been chosen as the
1:52.4	bull's eye.
1:53.6	Dark dregs ran down her face.
1:56.4	But Bates' fling went wide and hit the poets to sychorus in the eye.
2:00.9	A heavy gold ring on his middle finger had fouled the throw.
2:04.7	Agathon laughed, and Bottas twisted up his mouth, blaming the painted poetess.
2:10.7	He held out the empty cup.
2:12.8	A woman refilled it.
2:15.3	So, Agathon leaned forward on the couch.
2:19.9	So what?
2:21.1	Said Bates.
2:22.7	The thesmaphoria, your young wife, off to join the wild women.
2:28.3	Bottis drank.
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