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Our Fair City

4.2 - The Long Road Home

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Life on the unforgiving tundras of New England is hard, frigid, and for Benny Lemieux, disappointingly non-conjugal. Join him, Cumulus Jane and the other survivors of the crashed Stormhawk as they fight for survival and wonder at the daring of Neal Henderson and his party as they travel back…to HartLife. === 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! Benny Lemieux—Kamron Palmer Cumulus Jane—Lise “Kat” Evans Neal Henderson—Sebastian H. Orr Alison—Nina O’Keefe Jack— Mark Soloff Greyson— David Rheinstrom Clear Skies Tim—Tyler Samples Loamy— Lise “Kat” Evans Written by Clayton Faits. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Dan Streeting. 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

0:38.0

needs, heart life.

0:40.6

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

0:45.7

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

0:53.6

Tonight we bring you far from the safe, warm walls of the monolithic tower that houses

0:59.5

the powerful heartlife corporation and venture once more out into the frozen tundra that was

1:07.5

old New England.

1:09.3

Here there is precious little sucker for the wretched wolves that eke out a lean and hungry life.

1:16.6

Oh!

1:18.6

On a bitter night such as this, the scent of unwary prey, wafting across the plain is irresistible,

1:26.6

and the thought of sinking her teeth into the warm

1:30.0

flesh lures the she-wolf closer.

1:33.5

To smell it so strongly through the sleet and the wind means it is near.

1:39.5

The ice here is scarred and shattered by charred flotsam, spreading further than the wolf can see

1:46.6

the tang of ozone and carbon mingled, the unmistakable aroma of living, breathing, edible creatures.

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