4.13 - Green Tidings

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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We return to the newly discovered verdant “Eden,” outside the walls of the company, where Neal Henderson, Alison, and the rest of the crew of the downed rig Stormhawk work to survive without HartLife under the tutelage of Dora, amateur naturalist and window-washer. === 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! Dora— Lise “Kat” Evans Neal Henderson— Sebastian H. Orr Alison — Nina O’Keefe Greyson— David Rheinstrom Clear Skies Tim— Tyler Samples Jack— Mark Soloff Various Riggers— Tara Schile and Ryan Schile Written by Stephanie Spence. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by David Rheinstrom and Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Dann Tincher. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Created by Clayton Faits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	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.
0:54.6	Paradise, dear listeners, is a difficult thing to define.
0:59.9	Is your Shangri-La a place where the air is always warm and blueberry algae bars grow from
1:05.6	the trees?
1:06.6	Could your Arcadia be a place where mole people periodically emerge from beneath your furniture to give you cold drinks and then scuttle away?
1:17.3	No.
1:18.6	For corporate policy tells us that an ideal happiness level is achieved by forever meeting one's quota.
1:26.0	But outside of the city's walls, with no quota to meet and no
1:30.5	manual to light the path to happiness and productivity, who knows what false idols may lead
1:36.8	a once loyal policy to a mirage of satisfaction. This is why, dear listeners, when our survivors out on the tundra stumble upon a place of moderate
1:48.8	warmth with lichens and the occasional leafy plant, they falsely believed that this small
1:55.7	patch of nature matched the criteria for... Paradise.
2:01.6	Hmm-hmm.
2:02.6	A shrubby sedge you cannot eat, but willow shoots a tasty treat.
2:08.6	Oh, wow.
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