Great Bird of Africa | Decade of Dread #7

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Enjoy 31 episodes in 31 days as Wrong Station celebrates a “Decade of Dread”. // YELLOW EYES WATCH A FRIENDSHIP DIE // A GREAT CLACKING RINGS OUT // TO SIGNAL THE START OF A DEADLY GAME "Great Bird of Africa," a tale of the ancient world. 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	Hello, dear listener, and welcome to our month of madness. This year, the wrong station turns 10 years old.
0:09.6	To celebrate, we're releasing one episode for every day in October. That's 31 brand new episodes and 31 days.
0:16.6	You can celebrate with us by joining the wrong station Patreon, where we have special decade of dread benefits, including exclusive art prints by Sirenhead creator Trevor Henderson and the opportunity to have your name featured in a wrong station episode.
0:30.0	The wrong station is only possible thanks to the support of our listeners.
0:33.3	Donate today to make sure we're on the air for another 10th seasons.
0:37.2	Go to patreon.com slash the wrong station to find out more.
0:40.2	Or click the link in the show notes.
0:42.4	Thank you.
0:43.3	And enjoy this episode.
0:50.5	This October, the wrong station celebrates a decade of dread.
0:57.2	You can read the show notes to discover terrible new ways to celebrate with us.
1:03.9	Today's episode, Great Bird of Africa, is written by Alexander Saxton and performed by Anthony Betelow. 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 I'm I'm and I'm I In the humid night of the grand menagerie at Susa Palace, yellow eyes gleamed from blue shadows
2:05.5	in the sawtoothed leaves.
2:08.3	Three soldiers had built a fire and were slowly roasting peacocks on a spit.
2:14.5	They were dressed in clean new tunics, for their armor had rotted to rags in the Indian jungle.
2:21.4	They were used to the heat, though, where their skins had burnt a brick in the Grodrosian sun.
2:27.7	What do you think they're up to back home? It had been 11 years since they'd crossed into Asia.
2:34.2	Clitus laughed.
2:36.2	Firelight didn't quite fill the pit of his missing eye.
2:40.4	Well, we've got an expert on civilian life right here, don't we?
2:44.4	He clapped Zimmius on the shoulder.
2:46.9	Why don't we ask him?
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