The Cleansed: A Post-Apocalyptic Saga

By Realm

What's The Cleansed: A Post-Apocalyptic Saga about?

Equal parts "Mad Max" and "The Stand," this post apocalyptic saga is set in a world 15 years after the collapse of the world as we know it. A brother and sister grow up in rural Maine and unwittingly embark on a adventure to save the City from the religious zealots and ruthless military fight for control over the fallen world. An epic serialized audio drama adventure with 30+ actors, cinematic sound design and original music. Winner of Mark Time Award for sci-fi audio and finalist in Romania's Grand Prix Nova award.
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02.27.2023 Introducing Bookburners This week, we would like to introduce you to Bookburners, a new show from Realm created by Max Gladstone. Magic is real. And it’s dangerous. It’s locked in books and relics imbued with power. But sometimes, whether by accident or ...
02.03.2023 Introducing Leaving Corvat This week, we would like to introduce you to Leaving Corvat, a new podcast distributed by Realm. They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve ...
12.16.2022 Introducing Spark Hunter This week, we would like to introduce you to Spark Hunter, a new podcast distributed by Realm. When the world’s most advanced AI evolves past the limits of human intelligence, the US government fears she has gone rogue and is ...
11.22.2022 Introducing Blood Culture This week, we would like to introduce you to Blood Culture, a new podcast distributed by Realm. Explosive techno-thriller from Resonance 104.4FM. A’isha is just about holding down her job at the tech giant Meta before her old friend bursts ...
10.21.2022 Introducing Undertow: Blood Forest, starring Jack Falahee Langeley, Maine’s newest arrival is troubled veteran Frank Perotti. Blind teenager Eva Pelletier wants to survive her bullies, graduate, and leave Langeley forever. But a sudden rash of savage animal killings threatens to upend her dreams. Learn more about your ...
09.15.2022 Introducing ElfQuest This week, we would like to introduce you to ElfQuest, an epic saga from comic book creators Wendy and Richard Pini presented by Realm. Driven from their ancestral forest home by humans wielding fire, Wolfrider chief Cutter and his elfin ...
06.30.2022 Introducing Hollow Introducing HOLLOW, a new scripted sci-fi horror podcast from Violet Hour Media, distributed by Realm. A mercenary embarks on a corporate mission to track down a rogue leader and encounters the darkness of space, the darkness of colonization, and ultimately, ...
05.19.2022 Introducing Overleaper, starring Thora Birch This week, we’re introducing you to Overleaper, a new show from Realm starring Thora Birch. Listen and subscribe to Overleaper wherever you get your podcasts, or visit Realm.fm (and sign up for our newsletter while you're at it!) On a ...
04.11.2022 Introducing Marigold Breach, starring Jameela Jamil and Manny Jacinto This week, we’re introducing you to Marigold Breach, starring Jameela Jamil and Manny Jacinto. Listen and subscribe to Marigold Breach wherever you get your podcasts, or visit Realm.fm (and sign up for our newsletter while you're at it!) After crash-landing ...
02.02.2022 Introducing Undertow: A Dark Tome Story This week, we would like to introduce you to Undertow: A Dark Tome Story, a new show presented by Realm. Listen to Undertow: A Dark Tome Story wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Realm+ on Apple Podcasts to access ...
01.21.2022 Introducing Outliers, narrated by Rory Culkin This week, we would like to introduce you to Outliers, a new show presented by Realm. Listen to Outliers wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Realm+ on Apple Podcasts to access the entire show now, ad-free. Visit Realm.fm for ...
12.27.2021 Introducing Tales Beyond Time This week, we would like to introduce you to Tales Beyond Time, a new show from Realm. Listen and subscribe to Tales Beyond Time wherever you get your podcasts, or visit Realm.fm Tales Beyond Time is a weekly show bringing ...
12.12.2021 The Collective Today we feature a new, standalone post-apocalyptic audioplay - The Collective, by Asata Radcliffe. A major Catastrophic Event, known as the C.E. has left less than 10,000 people on the planet. The actual population of the world is not known. ...
11.29.2021 Introducing Black Friday Guest episode by our friends at Realm. Black Friday is a new horror-comedy podcast starring Fred Armisen. When demons from hell and their zombie minions attack the Mart Club, hapless retail worker Bob, his manager Tanya, and their coworkers must ...
10.29.2021 Introducing Roanoke Falls Guest content from our friends at Realm. A new horror podcast Executive Produced by John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter, and sound designed by Dark Tome creator Fred Greenhalgh and long-time collaborator Rory O'Shea 1587, North Carolina: Agnes is a ...
09.24.2021 Introducing If I Go Missing The Witches Did It Guest content from our friends at Realm. When a Black writer goes missing in the Hudson Valley, a well-meaning but misguided white podcast host with a savior complex takes up the cause of finding her—and collides with a coven of ...
09.13.2021 The Agony Chamber, by Morgan Sylvia Special content from our sister podcast, The Dark Tome. A group of buddies goes hunting in the Maine woods and find an evil beyond imagination. This haunting story is penned by Morgan Sylvia -- a metalhead, an Aquarius, a beer ...
07.16.2021 Wholesale Solution A haunting original audioplay by Fred Greenhalgh and Jack Bowman. An interstellar traveler will stop at nothing to save his fiancée who is trapped on a troubled Europa Colony. But as realities start to mash into one another, the true ...
09.26.2016 S3E10: Gog and Magog The Final Act. Paul's own faith is tested. The dead walk again. Heavens, earth, and sea cast judgement. The first crocus springs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.15.2016 S3E9: Mark of the Beast All forces converge on the City of Corinth as Paul and Saul raise the stakes of their great war - from fight for control, to a challenge that risks complete annihilation. In the shadows, our heroes rush to stop cataclysm, ...
07.10.2016 S3E8: Return of the Queen Paul's Believers rise in song as they begin the opening round of the Great Cleansing. Saul, duly impressed, begins his own preparations for the great battle. With time running out, Queenie, Lucian, and Maria visit the new Sewbie Refuge and ...
06.05.2016 S3E7: Life and Death With the Depot behind them, Luke and Marc must move onward. They are traveling by a vessel that seems near magical, but haunted by the events that have set them on their current course. Their paths will soon cross with ...
04.12.2016 S3E6: Exodus Battered and weakened from the collapse of their last chapel, the faith of Paul's Believers has been tested near to breaking. But the darkest hour will soon break, as the voice of the "Father" returns to Paul, leading them to ...
03.12.2016 S3E5: The Depot In their quest to find "Sanctuary," Lucian and Queenie find a door... And behind that door, lies answers. These answers may help them understand their broken world, but will it give them any way to fight against the demagogues lose ...
02.07.2016 S3E4: Retribution All eyes are on the Refuge, as Kubrick's forces loom over the remaining fighters and Zeke swoops in behind. Blood and death are familiar enough for the survivors of The Breaking but today's carnage will change things forever. In the ...
01.10.2016 S3E3: The Sanctuary Lucian and Queenie clear the wreckage from atop their traincar deep in the Soup and set off into the tunnels, in desperate search for a place called "Sanctuary." Meanwhile, Shadow brings the party down from Valkyrie and into a place ...
12.11.2015 S3E2: The Tide Last seen at the end of Season 1, the Dwellers and the Refugers united to try and make preparations for the coming winter. But the coming of nature's icy wind is the least of the dangers these survivors will face. ...
11.07.2015 S3E1: The Calling Borderton has fallen, and in the ashes Marc, Maria, Luke, and the scientist Abraham all struggle to survive. In this waking nightmare, Luke is plagued by haunting dreams - or are they visions? - of a past where powers of ...
11.06.2015 Season 3 Series Recap (SPOILERS) Recap of The Cleansed Seasons 1 and 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.06.2015 Season 3 Trailer The world as we knew it fell apart. Now, what’s left hangs in the balance. Three teens have found themselves the last ones standing in a struggle against two madmen intent on oblivion. But they have learned the world is ...
11.15.2013 S2E8: The Revelation, Part 2 The trap has been sprung, and the party must confront forces human and demonic in the city of Borderton. Everything Maria, Marc, and Luke have learned will be tested, as will their mettle. The grand finale will leave none of ...
11.15.2013 S2E7: The Revelation, Part 1 The trap has been sprung, and the party must confront forces human and demonic in the city of Borderton. Everything Maria, Marc, and Luke have learned will be tested, as will their mettle. The grand finale will leave none of ...
11.02.2013 S2E6: Den of Thieves Maria, Marc, and Luke have traversed the Atlantic in a sailboat guided by Sam and John, and now, on the skyline, is the burnt-out husk of Boston, now called "Borderton." The party is shocked to see what a modern city ...
10.20.2013 S2E5: The Soup Saul and Zeke return to the Soup looking for a nuclear warhead, which they can disassemble and use to power the electric needs of the Citadel. But what Saul stashed away is no longer there... He goes into a mad ...
09.21.2013 S2E4: The Light Far from the streets of Corinth, the Fort Point Light stands sentinel over the relentless crash of waves on the shore and man's comings and goings on the ocean. The lighthouse keeper, Cutler, is as gray and craggy as his ...
08.31.2013 S2E3: The Dark Saul descends upon the people of Corinth like the wolf he is. Spooked by the growing audacity and strength of Paul's Believers, Saul struggles to regain control using the most powerful weapon of all: fear. Caught in the middle of ...
08.03.2013 S2E2: The River A war of words erupts between Saul and Paul - one on blaring television screens, and another through wind-up radios. As the sides clash for control over the minds of the people of Corinth, each hatches an idea to thwart ...
07.06.2013 S2E1: The Hunters The Dweller compound has survived an attack and our heroes are headed south along a treacherous river. Luke is stricken with mind-freezing nightmares and learning to hunt. John fears the challenges of the raging river and Maria tries to befriend ...
07.06.2013 Season 2 Series Recap (SPOILERS) Recap of The Cleansed: Season 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.06.2012 S1E8: The Revolt The stage has been set for an incredible battle. John Prophet is locked up, awaiting his fate at the hands of the Dwellers' justice. Their "BOL" in rural Maine seems far, far away from the troubles afflicting old New York, ...
09.08.2012 S1E7: The Dwellers With horrors behind them and uncertainty ahead of them, Luke and Maria must come to terms -- the road without each other is too frightening. Meanwhile, they have a new friend, one of the Dwellers who shows them beneath the ...
08.03.2012 S1E6: The Crossing Rage burns in David's blood, as hot and incendiary as the coals which lit the crops of The Refuge into a blaze that may leave his people hungry as the brutal winter comes on. As David and his buddy Chris ...
07.07.2012 S1E5: The Believers In the wake of the nightmare that was Tully's barn, Sam appears ready to go to battle. But there is no battle left, and no chance to help but to mop up the mess. Marc, a wounded young warrior from ...
06.02.2012 S1E4: The Hermit Having made her decision to continue on the journey, Maria follows John's direction and steers their canoe downriver. But evils lay before them in this torn land. In a bleak homely homestead in the woods, amidst stacks of rusted up ...
05.05.2012 S1E3: The Road Dawn is a dim glow on the horizon of the Refuge when savage cries echo from the horizon. Moments later, the chalky rain-starved land turns into an inferno that David and his motley survivors must stop at all costs. Further ...
04.06.2012 S1E2: The Christening Far from the safety of the Refuge lies the City of Corinth, a broken place that once called itself New York. From the ashes, John Prophet emerged, uniting disparate groups and pushing out rival gangs. The city lay in - ...
03.10.2012 S1E1: The Refuge Fifteen years have passed since the "Battle of Bangor," the brutal assault on a small Maine city that set off the shattering of Northern New England during The Breaking. Since then, David and Sam have lead a ragged group of ...
03.09.2012 Prologue - The Breaking Some time in the not so distant future, the world as we know it is starting to unravel. The United States is mired in unwinnable wars, gas is scarce and the transportation system grinds to a halt. Homegrown terrorists take ...
03.01.2012 The Cleansed Trailer The Cleansed is an epic post-apocalyptic audio drama podcast saga of our times. Dubbed "Equal parts Mad Max meets The Stand," this immersive audio experience tells the story of a group of teenagers who, against all odds, must go on ...