I Hear Voices Theatre Company presents...: Recent Episodes
Damien Bell, Richard Potter, Dave Hughes, Darren Gooding
A new-writing, comedy-theatre podcast featuring a variety of serials and one-off shows created by the cast, many recorded live before an audience.
In Part Two the plot thickens with a portmanteau which may or may not be missing, a woman who may or may not have disappeared and a room which may or may not be there!
What has happened to Miss Kitty Schrödinger; will Miss Bunt admit her scandalous secret to the Professor and who exactly is the Mysterious Man with the wild hair and dark glasses, and will he ever be successful in his eternal quest for a cup of sugar…
Do all the answers lie in Number 3.141592653589 - that’s if it’s even there at all – or would that be entirely irrational?
Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 16th December 2025.
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In Part One, Randomson and Bunt encounter the garrulous Danish Proprietor of the Inn of the Golden Ratio and his pet moose Erik Forkbeard, and incur the wrath of a furious Archivist guarding the scandalous tale of heretical 16th century Magistrate Nicholas Spanking as they begin their cataloguing of the Rigsarkiv of Biborg Cathedral. Meanwhile Milly has an unexpected liaison with the impossible Kitty Schrödinger.
What precisely is the Number of the room to the right of Professor Randomson’s, will the Monks ever get to the top of their staircase and can Sir Arthur Ranblish succeed in breeding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Vole...
Based on the classic Christmas ghost story, Number 13, by M.R. James.
Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 16th December, 2025.
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You know the artist, Reginald Ivanhoe Pickman? Of course you don’t, he’s entirely fictitious. But imagine if he wasn’t! What if he were the 'enfant terrible' of the 1920s New England arts scene, responsible for shocking and scandalous creations the likes of which few could conceive? And what if the origins of that art held a terrible, dark secret? What then? Two inebriate dilettantes might drink themselves under the table recounting his story…
Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 18th December 2022.
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Donny accidentally wins a 100 year old American cornflake packet competition - the prize; office of President of the United States, but Donny’s sudden elevation doesn’t please the incumbent… The White House is only big enough for one “Donald” and Mister Fletcher-Park is going to make sure it’s him… Meanwhile newly appointed Chief of Staff, Mervin Mule, is experiencing an existential crisis; could this fresh madness actually be a good thing for Western Civilization...?
Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 16th September 2025.
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Come one, come all to the May Fair, a veritable "Who's that?" of local bands and spoken word artistes. Mervin is bravely running the show and envisages a wonderful, welcoming, weekend Wivenhoe Woodstock, with Donny lending an unwilling hand. But with the sun already well over the yard arm, a field full of drunken city teenagers, students, hippies, bikers, outraged local poets, a lot of very dodgy music, and with the gods yet to be appeased, can calamity be far away?
Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 16th September 2025.
Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
Sound Effect by u_tococonino969 from Pixabay
Sound Effect by dffdv from Pixabay
Sound Effect by Otto from Pixabay
Sound Effect by Jurij from Pixabay
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Act Two
In the concluding episode, the foolish Wrexall is persuaded to visit the mausoleum of Count Magnus Magnus Magnusson, with predictable, terrifying results... but no passes.
Written by Darren Gooding, based on 'Count Magnus' by M R James.
Recorded before a live audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 19th December 2024.
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Act One:
Holidaying in Sweden and on a mission to catalogue the ancient jokes of a noble family, the foolish Mr Wrexall is lured in by the tale of the mysterious Count Magnus Magnus Magnusson de la Gaudy.
Written by Darren Gooding, based on 'Count Magnus' by M R James.
Recorded before a live audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 19th December 2024.
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Doctor Whom? by Damien Bell
Poet Mervin Mule is offered an honorary doctorate, but his colleague and housemate, Dr Don Fletcher Park, is determined to throw a spanner in the works...
Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 10th September 2024.
With sound effects from Pixabay Samuel F. Johanns floraphonic EMİRCAN ALP
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Passport to Wivenhoe by Darren Gooding.
Frustrated by a lack of post-Brexit European arts funding, our heroes think all their problems are solved when Mervin accidentally discovers an ancient document proving that Wivenhoe is technically a province of France. Will he and Donny survive their coastal idyll suddenly going continental? Do there know their “aller” from their “avoir”? What is the sinister Dr Boatman up to? Find out in this comedy of Gallic errors.
Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 10th September 2024.
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Poets Mervin and Donny are caught up in a global pandemic and struggling to get to grips with the rules of lockdown. A hefty fine for Mervin leads to further complications and desperate measures; and what's Donny been up to in his room...?
Written by Damien Bell
Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 24th September 2023.
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Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 24th September 2023.
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Part 2 of 2.
Based on M.R. James' story, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.
Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 20th December 2023.
Written by Darren Gooding, featuring performances by Damien Bell, Darren Gooding, Dave Hughes and Sarah Ellen Young. Sound recording and engineering by Stuart Armitage. Music by Darren Tansley and Tina Gooding. Edited and Produced by Darren Gooding.
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Part 1 of 2.
Based on M.R. James' story, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.
Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 20th December 2023.
Written by Darren Gooding, featuring performances by Damien Bell, Darren Gooding, Dave Hughes and Sarah Ellen Young. Sound recording and engineering by Stuart Armitage. Music by Darren Tansley and Tina Gooding. Edited and Produced by Darren Gooding.
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Recorded live before an audience at The Headgate Theatre, Colchester on 22nd July 2023.
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Recorded live before an audience at The Headgate Theatre, Colchester on 22nd July 2023.
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Recorded 25 September 2022. Originally performed at The Headgate Theatre, Colchester, 22 June 2022.
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Recorded 25 September 2022. Originally performed at The Headgate Theatre, Colchester, 22 June 2022.
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Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 17 December 2021.
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Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 17 December 2021
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Recorded live at Colchester Arts Centre, 11 December 2022
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Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 16th October 2022.
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Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre on 16th October 2022.
Martin Newell, the inspiration for the character Mervin Mule, was in the audience and gave us a jolly nice write up afterwards, to boot.
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Written by Damien Bell.
Recorded 2020.
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The Call of the Unpronounceable 2: The Misspelled Horror
The second in our series of nightmarish nonsense is another HP Lovecraft inspired tale of terror in which the untimely death of a bachelor academic unexpectedly draws his nephew into a mystery involving weird cults, strange visions and peculiar idols.
Recorded live before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 31 October 2021.
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The Call of the Unpronounceable 1: The Sound Effects of Erich Zann by 'Chocolate' Dave Hughes
A student in 1950s Paris recalls the disturbing tale of the noises he heard within his apartment, and the curious man who made them. A comedy adaptation of The Music of Erich Zann, by HP Lovecraft.
Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 31 October 2021
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Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 16th December 2015.
Adapted from the stage production written by Damien Bell and Darren Gooding, originally performed in 2004 by The Predictable Pig Theatre Company.
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Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 16th December 2015.
Adapted from the stage production written by Damien Bell and Darren Gooding, originally performed in 2004 by The Predictable Pig Theatre Company.
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Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 16th December 2015.
Adapted from the stage production written by Damien Bell and Darren Gooding, originally performed in 2004 by The Predictable Pig Theatre Company.
Recorded before an audience at Colchester Arts Centre, 16th December 2015.
Adapted from the stage production written by Damien Bell and Darren Gooding, originally performed in 2004 by The Predictable Pig Theatre Company.
Recorded live at Colchester Arts Centre, 17th December 2019.
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Recorded live at Colchester Arts Centre, 31st July 2013.
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Recorded live at Colchester Arts Centre, 31st July 2013.
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Recorded live at Colchester Arts Centre, 24th July 2013.
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Recorded live at Colchester Arts Centre, 24th July 2013.
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The Yellow Peril
Bentley's journey leads him to the mysterious village of Tropping Sholley, where things are not as they don't appear not to be, and meets the sinister Lord Redherring...
The Heart of Darkness
Continuing on his mission to uncover the source of the threat to Great Britain, top Secret Special Security Squad Service agent Bentley Strangetrousers must journey far from the urbane civilisation of London and into the wild, untamed rural regions of East Anglia.
Originally recorded in 2012, this is the version recorded live at Colchester Arts Centre in 2016.