The Wireless Podcast

Ragged red-blooded gladiator Maximus gets embroiled in a bullish scheme to spread blood sports across the globe. Will he wave the red handkerchief and seal the fate of the world's bulls, or will he get his glad rags on and win back his love?

Featuring special guest foley artist Clara Cupcakes.

Title: Red Handkerchief Blues

Main Character: Maximus Ludicorus

Strange Secret: The sight of a ferret made him do The Macarena

Featured Location: In A Kitchen in Mooney Ponds (probably Australia)

Sponsored by: Ladies Shoe Emporium

Novice climber Ken is on a dangerous route to the icy tip-top of the world's third-highest peak, whilst many-vice climate-keen monks put the whole world in danger with an iceberg-tipping plot. Is the fate of the earth sealed?

Featuring special guest foley artist Josh Earl.

Title: The Tip of the Iceberg

Character: Ken

Strange Secret: He finds snails erotic

Featured Location: A Cave in a Buddhist Monastery

Sponsor: The World of Cogs

Epithetic deity The Messiah is a prolific French artist. Can perfumed paintings help him to live up to his billing before Rupert Murdoch's devious plot to monopolise all forms of information plunges the world into darkness? Find out before the lawsuits ensue!

Featuring special guest foley artist Clara Cupcakes.

Title: Stop IT!

Character: The Messiah

Strange Secret: He’s an avid cuckold

Featured Location: Perfumery in Paris

Sponsor: Brown’s Beers

Retired detective Uriah investigates a string of increasingly 'orrible crimes that lead him right to the heart of London's underworld (and a saucy French dame) in this soot-smothered slice of devious Victoriana.

Featuring special guest foley artist Brianna Williams.

Title: The Shimmyshank of the Chimney Sweep

Character: Uriah Creep

Strange Secret: A Phobia of Stickers

Featured Location: in Afghanistan, on Top of a Camel

Sponsor: Milquetoast Crunch

Captain Albatross takes to the ocean with a threadbare crew, whilst God himself can’t bear losing the thread of his omniscience. It’s sort of Pirates of the Caribbean meets The Bible (and Matt Groeing is probably instigating legal proceedings) in this timber-shivering adventure!

Featuring special guest foley artist Alexis Dubus.

Title: God Only Knows What to Expect

Main character: Captain Albatross

Strange secret: Afraid of skunks

Featured Location: The couch at home

Sponsor: Blackbeard’s eyepatches

Unadorned grouch Sans moves to a mouthful of a sleepy village (and make sure you are asleep), where he's the only one who can stop inter-dimensional (and general) confusion as fiery fantasy becomes terrifying reality.

Featuring special guest foley artist Ruby Slippers.

Title: Judy’s Left Sock

Main Character: Sans Serif

Strange Secret: Couldn’t Tell The Tim

Featured Location: The Tower of Mordor

Sponsor: That Company That Isn’t Facebook But Wants To Be

Dogged Negus is on a romantic weekend for one, but his temporary Bavarian hotel bliss is interrupted by a police investigation and temporal tinkerings ignited by an ignored poet. Switzerland will never be the same again.

Featuring special guest foley artist Strangely - www.strangelyandfriends.com

Title: I Hope This Isn’t A Waste of Time

Main Character: Negus

Strange Secret: Crippling Self Esteem Issues

Featured Location: Schoenbach Falls

Sponsored by: Blumenthal’s Medical Grommets

Episode photograph by Kim Anderson.

In this whiskey-soaked Southern parable, hapless Englebert is mistaken for his famous namesake, but life as a big-shot recording artist isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – particularly when a knuckle-cracking blues veteran might well be a rheum with a view to stealing his soul (to swap for soul on the steel-string). Also, a father is the devil’s son, and the band seriously need to see a doctor in this (Bohemian) Rhapsody in blues!

Featuring special guest foley artist Famous Sharron – www.famoussharron.com/

Title: Rheumy Blues

Main Character: Englebert Humperdinck

Strange Secret: The Queen’s lovechild

Featured Location: The Jungle Gym

Sponsored by: Crunchy Hairspray

Episode photograph by Kim Anderson.

Lady Bottomley's morning mourning is interrupted as she finds herself knee-deep in gold-digging birthday-suited suitors. To make matters worse the butler hasn't spotted the squatters, and there's something very valuable hidden in the manor - if only anyone could find it. Plus society might just be falling apart.

Featuring special guest foley artist Will Pickvance - http://www.willpickvance.com

Title: Champagne In A Trashcan

Main Character: Lady Bottomley

Strange Secret: She is terrified of curtains

Featured Location: A nudist beach in Bournemouth

Sponsored by: Yorkshire puddings

Episode photograph by Kim Anderson.

Iberian hack Juan is the only man standing in the way of an (eventually) evil misogynist plot cooked up by those cads the Swiss. Full-on pan-European disaster beckons, and on top of it all it's a really bad time to be called Cole.

Title: Turning The Knife

Main Character: Juan

Strange Secret: He's allergic to dust

Featured Location: The rooftops of Paris

Sponsored by: Trampolines