RQ Network Feed Drop – Not Quite Dead S1: I:The Girl on the Gurney

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This month we are featuring a feed drop for an incredible podcast on the RQ Network: Not Quite Dead.

Not Quite Dead is a UK-based Gory, Horror, Romance, podcast from the award-winning team behind Spirit Box Radio, Remnants and Clockwork Bird.

Follow Alfie, a nurse working overtime when a patient arrives with her throat torn out. This is just the beginning of a terrifying night as Alfie finds himself caught in a battle between the living and the undead.

Saved by a mysterious stranger named Casper, they find themselves inescapably bound together. Neither of them are happy about it, but the draw of each other’s blood is irresistible.

Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to Not Quite Dead on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. To learn more about Not Quite Dead, check out their official website.

If you want to support Not Quite Dead and it’s creators, until April 3rd, head to www.rustyquill.com/fundraiser

Credits: Written, performed and edited by Eira Major.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-1/

Content Warnings:

Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:

– mild profanity

– references to sex

– discussion of the process of dying

– medicalised descriptions of death processes and dead people

– death, including violent death

– references to medical procedures

– hospital settings

– mentions of blood

– mentions of infidelity

– descriptions of blood

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Anusha here. Today, we are sharing the first episode from an incredible podcast on
0:05.4	the Arqueen Network with you, Not Quite Dead. Not Quite Dead is a UK-based gory horror romance podcast
0:12.3	from the award-winning team behind Spiritbox Radio, remnants, and Clockwork Bird. Follow Alfie,
0:18.3	a nurse working overtime when a patient arrives with her throat torn out.
0:23.1	This is just the beginning of a terrifying night, as Alfie finds himself caught in a battle between
0:28.6	the living and the undead. Saved by a mysterious vampire named Casper, they find themselves
0:35.3	inescapably bound together.
0:42.4	Neither of them are happy about it, but the draw of each other's blood is irresistible.
0:47.6	Find other brilliant episodes in this series by searching for Not Quite Dead wherever you listen to podcasts, clicking the link in the show notes or on RustyQuil.com.
0:52.1	If you want to support Not Quite Dead and its creators, until April 3rd,
0:56.2	head to www.Rusticwill.com forward slash fundraiser. Have fun and enjoy the episode.
1:05.6	Hello, my name is Alfie and I'm not quite dead.
1:11.4	No.
1:20.6	I'm Alfie and if you're listening to this tape, I'm probably dead or not quite dead, but in a different kind of way and... Jesus, this all sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?
1:26.2	This is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be.
1:30.3	Did I think it would be easy to write my own obituary?
1:33.5	Is that what this even is?
1:35.9	Honestly, I didn't give it much thought before I sat down.
1:38.8	I just knew I had to say something.
1:40.9	Leave a little piece of me behind, you know?
1:43.6	So, the basics. I'm Alfie. I used to be in A&E nurse, but now I'm just me.
1:49.9	I haven't left my flat in days. I think I'm dying. I know I'm dying. I should be dead already,
	...

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