4.19 - Neal Henderson

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The city waits with bated breath as Neal Henderson, the Sharp Chuter, descends to the Putrescible Waste Fields to provide the power necessary to jump start the Doctors’ Fusion Reactor. Can the actions of one man, no matter how mighty, make a difference in the monolithic tower of the HartLife corporation? === Loyal Policies: we strongly recommend listening to this piece of the Historical Record with headphones. 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! Neal Henderson— Sebastian H Orr Andrew Snidge— Frank Sjodin Doctor Herbert West— Ryan Schile Doctor Emily Caligari— Marsha Harman Vice President Davenport— Ben Aldred The Switcher— Jared Latore Alison Dalton— Nina O’Keefe Written by Jim McDoniel. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Episode art by Cyrus Crashtest. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Production Management by Betsey Palmer. Created by Clayton Faits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fly Emirates to your sunny getaway.
0:04.0	Unwind on a beach retreat in Mauritius.
0:07.0	Find Serenity in Indonesia.
0:10.0	Immers in Thailand's vibrant culture.
0:13.0	Start your holiday on board with regionally inspired cuisine,
0:17.0	complimentary drinks, up to 6,500 channels of movies, TV shows, music and games,
0:24.3	and world-class service. Fly Emirates, Fly Better.
0:33.2	Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life.
0:40.6	These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history.
0:46.0	So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need.
1:19.2	Morning, you transform always. you'll ever need. One of you trustful ways to action for the world. Policies, we are all of us, only human.
1:25.9	However, there are members of our community who are somehow more human than human.
1:31.3	It seems almost as though there is more matter, more weight to the form and actions of these supermen. One such hero is Neil Henderson. Now the sharpshooter, a man who
1:41.8	shoveled the waist of five men, holds the entire city on his
1:46.5	muscled shoulders. All of our hope depends on this single life, being carefully strapped into
1:54.5	a giant mechanical digging suit. And the blue safety line goes into the red receiver here.
2:03.1	And the Indigo Power Valve goes into this Chartreuse Junction here.
2:08.5	And this yellow thing, uh...
2:11.1	He's leftover, I guess.
2:12.9	All right, Mr. Henderson, you're all strapped in.
2:15.5	All it's left is to turn you on.
2:22.0	Are we sure that this metal get-up is going to work?
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