Introducing "The Midnight Rebellion," a new climate fiction podcast
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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The Midnight Rebellion is a pick-your-own-path podcast set 100 years in the future, where the stakes are nothing less than the planet itself. It is fiction rooted in real science, built for the kids in your life (ages 7 and up) — and the whole family.
You're listening to Chapter 1 of The Midnight Rebellion. Each chapter ends with a choice. YOU decide what’s next. Choose wisely.
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| 0:00.0 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:05.5 | Hey, it's Chris Bentley, checking in on a Saturday to tell you about a new show from our friends at WBUR Podcasts. |
| 0:13.2 | It's called The Midnight Rebellion. |
| 0:15.9 | It's a choose-your-own-adventure, Climate Fiction podcast set 100 years from now. At the end of every episode, |
| 0:23.6 | you decide what happens next. There are up to 82 possible outcomes. This is Clifai, as in |
| 0:31.5 | climate fiction, but it's rooted in real science and explores how the choices we're making today could change things |
| 0:39.3 | way into the future. |
| 0:41.5 | That's something I think about sometimes when I'm doing environmental stories for here and now's |
| 0:46.1 | series, Reverse Course, which, by the way, we've got some new reverse course stories |
| 0:51.1 | coming next week. |
| 0:53.0 | So I was interested to hear The Midnight Rebellion, |
| 0:56.5 | which is a show made for kids, aged seven and up, but give it a shot whatever your age is, |
| 1:03.2 | and see if it helps you think about the climate crisis in a new way. So here's the first chapter, |
| 1:08.4 | and if you want to keep going, all the chapters in part one and part two are already out. |
| 1:13.4 | Just search for The Midnight Rebellion, wherever you listen to here and now anytime, which will be back, as usual, on Monday. |
| 1:20.2 | Now here's chapter one of the Midnight Rebellion. |
| 1:30.8 | If you are listening to this, congratulations. |
| 1:35.7 | You have made it to the first chapter of The Midnight Rebellion. |
| 1:38.3 | This is an interactive podcast. |
| 1:41.9 | That means you will hear two choices at the end of each chapter. |
| 1:43.9 | I will say something like, |
| 1:45.7 | should our heroes play it safe, |
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