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Our Fair City

4.10 - Encounter

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In which the survivors of the lightning rig crash scrounge as if their lives depend on it, run like there’s no tomorrow, and encounter that most rare and mysterious of denizens of that Outside: Vegetation.  === Our Fair City was originally released between 2011 and 2018. If you're interested in listening to the complete 8 seasons of Our Fair City ad free right now, you can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Alison—Nina O’Keefe Neal Henderson—Sebastian H. Orr Jack— Mark Soloff Greyson— David Rheinstrom Clear Skies Tim—Tyler Samples Dora— Lise “Kat” Evans Emerson— Dean Yeager Schile Written by Stephanie Spence. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Courtney Billadeau. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Created by Clayton Faits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.

0:02.0

I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.

0:05.0

I've ruled out uni because of my grades.

0:10.0

Study with the Open University and there's no need to rule out anything.

0:13.0

With our respected degrees, you can learn from home and work alongside study.

0:17.0

We're open to all. Plus, you'll have the support of expert tutors. So rethink your

0:23.6

future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. The future is open.

0:32.9

Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, heart life.

0:40.2

These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history.

0:45.6

So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need.

0:55.3

Take heart, dear listener, in the policies and procedures our benevolent directors laid down,

1:01.6

which govern our every moment.

1:04.0

From the day we emerge in the automated birthing rooms to the end of our days in the

1:08.9

clean and efficient dead disposal shoots, our lives

1:12.5

are kept and governed by the efficient workings of the Heartlife Corporation.

1:18.2

For our survivors on the frozen waste, there is no procedure for taking their minds

1:23.1

from the howling wind and the ravenous wolves outside their tenuous shelter in the newfound

1:29.4

ruins of old Hartford. Left to their own devices, the survivors sit, counting and sorting

1:36.8

food.

1:38.0

We've been sorting all this weird stuff in the frozen city

1:45.0

We've been sorting animals this stuff

1:50.0

Kinda smells bad

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