Anoraks

By Anoraks

Hywel and Rhian are regulars on a forgotten rural train platform. They bring tea, biscuits, and an agreement never to interfere. Whatever happens, they watch.

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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.

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March 07, 2026 The Watching & The Watched
Reality begins to fracture on the familiar railway platform when Hywel finds himself seated beside three mysterious leather hatboxes while Rhian calmly observes. As the environment subtly shifts and an unseen crowd gathers, Hywel is forced into a disturbing reversal of roles — becoming the performer in a ritual he once only witnessed. With each hatbox opened and a grotesque discovery revealed, the line between observer and participant collapses, leading Hywel to confront a horrifying truth: the body he is assembling may be his own.
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March 07, 2026 The Left Behind
At an abandoned station lined with rusting lockers, Rhian and Hywel stumble into a space where reality refuses to stay fixed. When Rhian becomes trapped inside one of the lockers, she is forced through a series of unsettling resets—each one revealing a stranger version of the platform outside. With distorted voices whispering and lockers slamming shut around her, Rhian begins to realise the rules have changed and the roles are shifting once again. As the cycles escalate, a final revelation on the station timetable suggests that someone has already been “collected”… and someone else has been left behind.
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March 07, 2026 The Buffer
At the fog-drenched end of a forgotten siding, Hywel finds himself surrounded by dozens of identical versions of himself, all converging on an ancient buffer stop. As the duplicates begin turning on one another in a brutal struggle for survival, Rhian watches with calm detachment, suggesting the spectacle may be less chaos and more selection process. With the crowd thinning and the mist closing in, Hywel is forced to confront the horrifying purpose of the gathering—and the possibility that the last one standing isn’t the victim, but the next person in charge.
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March 07, 2026 The Promotion
Now wearing a conductor’s hat, Hywel patrols the eerie “Quiet Carriage” of a moving train where every passenger sits unnaturally still. Under Rhian’s watchful eye, the rules of silence are absolute—and the consequences for breaking them are brutal. As small disturbances ripple through the carriage and the passengers begin turning on one another, Hywel realises his new role carries terrifying authority. With the train hurtling toward the end of the line, he must decide whether he is enforcing the rules… or becoming the thing that created them.
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March 07, 2026 The Conductor
The familiar platform has transformed into a vast, unsettling rail yard of endless tracks and identical black trains. Beneath a towering timetable board that flickers with names, Hywel begins to realise the strange railway system surrounding him may have been preparing him for something all along. As Rhian calmly updates a conductor’s logbook with eerie precision, Hywel is forced to confront the truth behind his so-called promotion. With a train waiting silently in the darkness, the line between observer and conductor finally collapses—and Hywel must decide whether to step aboard the role that may already belong to him.
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March 07, 2026 The Last Departure
In the series finale of Anoraks, the strange railway world reaches its endgame. The once-familiar platform has become a vast, crumbling concourse where endless tracks disappear into darkness, and a flickering timetable board rapidly clears the last remaining names. With only Rhian and Hywel left on the board, the purpose of the mysterious station begins to reveal itself.
As a silent black train arrives for a final journey, Hywel is forced to confront the role he has gradually been drawn into throughout the series. Known for its abstract storytelling and unsettling atmosphere, Anoraks has often left key details open to interpretation, inviting listeners to fill in the gaps themselves. In this final episode, the story reaches its most dramatic point as the last departure approaches—and the cycle at the station may not be as finished as it seems.

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February 14, 2026 The Quiet Carriage
Hywel and Rhian step inside a long-abandoned carriage where silence is strictly enforced. Rows of motionless passengers sit in the dim light, obeying rules that no one has announced — and breaking them seems to carry consequences.
As blood begins to drip and messages appear on fogged glass, it becomes clear that this is not a place for conversation or curiosity. The passengers are listening, watching, and waiting for something to happen. When their attention finally turns towards Hywel and Rhian, the quiet becomes unbearable.

Weekly departures. Saturdays at 8pm (UK). Don’t be late.

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February 14, 2026 The End of the Line
Hywel and Rhian arrive at a vast, empty station concourse where a single platform remains active — theirs. As the departure board cycles through familiar names and sounds from past encounters echo through the hall, it becomes clear that everything they have witnessed has been leading here.
When a final tannoy announcement calls for two observers to board the Black Line, Hywel is forced to confront the truth of what they are, what they’ve been doing, and why they can never quite leave. As the train arrives to take them onward — or nowhere at all — the question is no longer what they’ve been watching, but how long they’ve been waiting.
The End of the Line brings Series Two of Anoraks to a chilling close, collapsing observation, memory, and routine into a final, irreversible departure.

The timetable is complete. All of Series 3 arrives 7/3/2026 at 8pm (UK).

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February 07, 2026 The Death on the Buffer Stop
Hywel and Rhian find themselves in a silent freight yard where the tracks end at a rusted buffer stop. When a man appears on the siding, pursued by someone identical to him, the encounter quickly turns violent — and then repeats itself.
As more identical figures emerge from the shadows, replaying the same confrontation over and over, it becomes clear that this is not a coincidence or a misunderstanding. The yard is restaging something, and Hywel and Rhian may be closer to its centre than they realise. When the figures vanish and the platform falls quiet once more, the sense remains that whatever was meant to arrive has already been and gone.

Weekly departures. Saturdays at 8pm (UK). Don’t be late.
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February 07, 2026 The Midnight Express
At a tunnel mouth long closed to regular services, Hywel and Rhian wait in unnatural silence as something impossible approaches. A train emerges from the darkness — glowing, unmanned, and filled with figures that should not be there.
As the ghostly carriages pass, Hywel recognises faces from past encounters, moments he believed were over and done with. When one of the figures looks back at him, identical in every way, the truth becomes harder to ignore: this train isn’t carrying passengers — it’s collecting echoes.
When the Midnight Express vanishes back into the fog, Hywel is left with the creeping certainty that whatever this place is, it’s no longer content with simply being watched.

Weekly departures. Saturdays at 8pm (UK). Don’t be late.

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FAQs about Anoraks:

How many episodes does Anoraks have?

The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.