Serial Tales - Joan Juliet Buck's Littleburg Tales

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Serial Tales - Joan Juliet Buck's Littleburg Tales episodes

December 16, 2025 Flesh and Metal
The devil’s ex wife thinks Beyoncé was right about Harry and Meghan, Vince ponders points of doctrine— was that Jesus being reborn right here a year ago, or was it as abstract as Schrödinger’s cat? Nonsense tales of fear and faith grow towards a showdown between Vince and the Tesla people who are entitled and very, very hurt.
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
23 min
December 15, 2025 The Prisoner
Cobbler Martin is in London, confined under surveillance for her role in setting off the storm that killed many, including her host the oligarch. She is interrogated by an official whom doesn’t believe her, she befriends her guards, she falls into despair, and then she finds a reason to hope.
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
26 min
November 17, 2023 Angel to the Rescue
The angel who brought Mary and Joseph to Littleburg two years ago --for what might have been the second coming-- returns for another world-shaking bit of business. It turns out that when the devil's ex-wife fired the demons from the Counting House of Souls in the basement of the Hotel Liminal , they scattered out into the world and caused global havoc. How do you put the demons back in the box?
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
15 min
April 08, 2023 They Will Replace Us
Luella Diamond thinks $130,000 is chicken feed hush money, and because there are no ghosts left to soften the air in the Hotel, everyone in the bar has to get drunk. Minnie Gonzales the realtor shows the house that never sells to the brand conceptualizer who's now in big trouble.
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
24 min
March 11, 2023 The Cold Light Of Reality
The Littleburg witch Celeste Granting has to give up her practice and go back to her prosaic old name-- Laura Appleby-- because the invisible world has gone silent since the ghosts were fired from the hotel.
Laura no longer believes in the woo-woo stuff: She will devote herself to the dreary mantra IT IS WHAT IT IS.
But then she realizes that Pluto is about to go into Aquarius , for the very first time since the tumultuous years between 1777and 1797. Our war of independence and the French Revolution. What heads are going to roll this time? Buckle your seatbelt and get out the popcorn. This announces a wild ride through living history. Come back for the next episode.
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
24 min
January 28, 2023 Into a world without ghosts
After Luella Diamond has fired the soul counters and spirits from the hotel Liminal, they aggregate into a snowball that pulls all the other spirits out of Littleburg. The sudden clarity leaves the inhabitants with only reality , and that is going to be hard. Celeste loses her powers during a seance , and realizes she may have chosen the wrong life path.
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
26 min
December 28, 2022 Everlasting Light
While half of Littleburg is re-enacting what might have been the Second Coming right there, Vince decides he may sell the hotel Liminal to the devil's ex wife, and invites her to try it for a month. She bullies the whisperers out of the counting house of souls in the hotel basement. They may take the other spirits with them-- stand by for season 3, Littleburg without ghosts.
Vince flies with Harriet to London to join Cobbler who's been working with the King on the secret mission she and Vince were given by the angel last year , and King Charles's (real ) Christmas speech proves how hard he's been working to fight darkness with light.
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
27 min
December 03, 2022 The Rules of Ethiquette
Celeste Granting, on her bi- yearly check-in with the Board of spirit guides, draws up the sketch of a new set of ethics, which the voice of the board calls"ETHIQUETTE". Going beyond the rules of the Old Testament, she channels a wide harvest of new commandments. She will also discover just how repellent social life has become.
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
25 min
November 27, 2022 The Nature of The Universe
Vince is tempted to join the young star Cobbler in London without his wife Harriet, so he seeks advice from his friend the seer Celeste. Who’s desperately trying to find ways to save her clients from new waves of despair. She tries to list reasons for gratitude , and they both end up practicing stichomancy with a text from before the birth of Christ .
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
25 min
November 19, 2022 What Is Home?
After months under surveillance, Cobbler is deemed clean and able to work with King Charles, who explains to Cobbler over tea at home how they will fight darkness.
The singer is intimidated ; the King is worried about the coming winter. And he's having problems with his birds. How do you plot a mission when your mode is set to small talk? And how is the man with yellow hair like permafrost?
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org
25 min