Podcastle, Episode 889 for Tuesday the 29th of April 2025.

The O'Brien and Palmer Show by L.S. Johnson, part one of two, read by Nicola Chapman, Peter Seaton-Clark and Matt Dovey, and produced by Eric Valdez.

Rated PG-13, with a content note for era-specific homophobia.

Good. you. Good morning, good day, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Podcastle,

the flying castle of fantasy fiction. I'm your host, Madovi, and it is good to be back. I'm afraid real life and in particular capitalist exploitation of the proletariat worker have kept me away.

But I am delighted to be back and have the privilege of presenting, for your enjoyment, the O'Brien and Palmer Show by Ellis Johnson, read by Nicola Chapman, Peter Seaton-Clark and yours truly.

This story was previously published in G is for Ghosts

from Poison Pen Publishing, and this episode is part one of two for the story, which will conclude

next week. Before we get into it, I ought to take the opportunity to formally and properly

introduce someone important to you all. If you listen to episode 886

earlier this month, Hui the Archer fights the Sun, you'll have heard Shingai announcing that

they're moving on from our castle ramparts after four years to lead the charge on the relaunched,

again, fantasy magazine. And that's in their place, Rhinni Kamamia would be joining Eleanor as

co-editor to Flyers Forward

to Horizon's New.

You ought to make proper instructions though, right?

So please allow me to tell you that Winnie Kamamia is a writer, a visual artist and

archive maker born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya.

Their artistic practice is a research and process-based exploration of the idea of the

Sensorium. Using a variety of media as sensorial tools that range from writing, painting,

collage, lens-based media, textile-based media and alternative processes in cyanotypes,

they cultivate an ecology of existence that pulls back human attention from the distractions and disconnects of anthropocentrism to the instinctive interconnectedness of the worlds which we belong to.

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