RQ Network Feed Drop – Cold Tapes– 001 Operation Antelope
The Magnus Archives
Rusty Quill
4.9 • 12K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Cold Tapes. Created by the talented team at Free Turn Production.
Cold Tapes is an award winning murder mystery Audio Drama inspired by true crime. ,
In this first episode called “Operation Antelope” The brutal murder of Andrew Fairfield on a remote Antarctic base thrusts DCI Tessa McCallister into the claustrophobic lives of an isolated community of international scientists and crew.
Through police interviews, covert recordings, and audio diaries, Tessa hears hidden agendas, concealed criminal histories, violent psychosis, and dangerous conspiracy theories that help her uncover the truth behind the murder.
With the murderer still on the base it’s a race against time to untangle the maze of deception, revealing chilling truths buried beneath the ice.
16 Suspects. 1 Murderer. Can you solve it?
Introduction and outro by Shahan Hamza. Listen to Cold Tapes on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Cold Tapes on its official website.
Credits:
A Free Turn production.
Written by Alexis Zegerman and Jonathan Myerson
Developed and Story Produced by Chris Croucher and Emma Lamont
Directed and Produced by Sian Williams
Associate Producer: Thisbe Barnett
Executive Producers: Jon Hamm, Gemma Batterby, Ron Downey, Emma Lamont, Chris Croucher and Robbie Ashcroft
Content warnings:
Mentions of Death, Medication, Isolation, and Mental Health.
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| 0:42.8 | Hi everyone, it's Jahan here. Today, we're sharing an episode from a podcast on the RQ network, Cold Tapes. |
| 0:48.6 | Cold Tapes is an award-winning murder mystery audio drama inspired by true crime. |
| 0:53.3 | In this first episode, called Operation Antelope, |
| 0:56.7 | the brutal murder of Andrew Fairfield on a remote Antarctic base thrusts DCI Tessa McAllister |
| 1:02.2 | into the claustrophobic lives of an isolated community of international scientists and crew. Through |
| 1:07.5 | police interviews, covert recordings, and audio diaries, Tessa hears hidden agendas, |
| 1:12.5 | concealed criminal histories, violent psychosis, and dangerous conspiracy theories that help her |
| 1:18.1 | uncover the truth behind the murder. With the murderer still on the base, it's a race against |
| 1:22.9 | time to untangle the maze of deception, revealing chilling truths buried beneath the ice. |
| 1:28.2 | 16 suspects, one murderer. |
| 1:30.4 | Can you solve it? |
| 1:31.3 | To listen to more, you can click on the link in the description or search for cold tapes wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:36.4 | You can also find more information at rusty quill.com or coldtapes.com. |
| 1:41.5 | Have fun and enjoy the episode. Tessa, John here. Oh, sir. How are things? Oh, you know, can't complain. How very noble of you. Everyone else does. All right, then. Won't complain. I mean, something's come in and it's not exactly uncomplicated. Mm-hmm. I'm all years. 33-year-old male, name of Andrew Fairfield, found dead a few days ago, 21st of June. |
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