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Crime, mystery, and noir stories told through immersive radio drama. Mono Noir combines dialogue, music, and sound effects to bring its stories to life. Writing, voices, music, sound effects, and artwork are created using AI tools, with human listening, review, and revision shaping the finished episodes. Story pages and full transcripts: https://matezz.com

3h ago

Paper by Noon · Velvet Shadows

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. At noon the Ministry froze Prague's Lion Fund, and by then its best shares had already left, on transfers that carry the chairman's signature. Professor Malina, the chairman whose face is on the fund's posters, writes to the detective Antonín Zima that he is accused of a theft he did not commit and has no one else to ask. Who got those shares out before the freeze? 🎧 Full episode of Velvet Shadows: a modern noir detective audio drama set in Prague, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Prague, June 1997. The bookseller Pavel Hruška, who tells this story, has shut his shop early and is reading the evening paper to his friend, the detective Antonín Zima, among the unsold poets in the back office. Hruška's own coupon book is in the Lion Fund. Then Zima reads out the letter he received that afternoon, pencilled on the back of a ruled answer sheet. At the university in Žižkov the word Thief is chalked across Professor Malina's door, and the suspended professor, with letters from the families who trusted his name spilled across his desk, insists that he signed nothing. At the fund's offices on Na Příkopě, where seals are going across the doors, Kapitán Rys of the Criminal Police explains that nine transfer orders were dropped in the securities registry's night box at dawn, delivered by nobody anyone saw. Linhart, who started the fund and says he knows its six hundred thousand shareholders by their account numbers, lets the detective in, and Ostrá, the fund's secretary, one of three people with a key to the office, is asked where she was the night before the freeze. At the registry the clerk Doubravová will swear in any court that the signature matched the professor's specimen card; the orders themselves are sealed in cabinet number three, and the ledger shows shares worth one billion two hundred million crowns transferred out. A professor who says he signed nothing, a clerk who swears to the signature, nine orders locked in a cabinet: who moved the Lion Fund's shares? From the series Velvet Shadows: a real 1990s Czech crime reimagined as a post-communist Prague noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Czech case of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the fund's chairman, founder and staff, a university lecturer, the officials of a securities registry and of a ministry, the police and criminal investigators, the shareholders, and anyone suspected or accused of the theft — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, street, university or public body is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the Lion Fund, its offices and its people are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Prague — June 1997. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 The Evening Paper Among the Unsold Poets1:39 Up the Stairs to the Professor's Door3:25 Seals Across the Fund's Doors5:34 Behind Frosted Glass in the Registry7:10 Near Midnight in the Kapitán's Office9:05 Back Through the Seals at Eight10:36 Rys Knocks on the Chalked Door12:35 Back Up to the Fund's Offices14:34 A Coupon Book and a Bottle of Becherovka16:10 Ostrá Fetched Back for Questioning18:13 Back Down to the Registry with the Professor19:53 Mist on Charles Bridge After Midnight21:17 Rys Waiting, Notebook Open, Short of Breath23:09 A Quarter of an Hour in a Bare Room25:33 Wrapped in Mist Behind the Bookshop #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
11h ago

A Call From Strahov · Velvet Shadows

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. While the alarm rang in a Prague gallery, the only police car on duty was sent to an empty street at Strahov. By morning four paintings worth one point four billion crowns are gone, the night dispatcher is waiting to be blamed, and his captain has locked the caller's words in a drawer. Who was the voice on the radio? 🎧 Full episode of Velvet Shadows: a modern noir detective audio drama set in Prague, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Prague, late autumn 1993. Kos, the night dispatcher at the local police station, comes in dripping wet to the back of a Malá Strana bookshop, where the detective Antonín Zima and the bookseller who tells this story, Pavel Hruška, are over their coffee. The robbery was last night. Kos is the man who sent the only car away on a radio call about a patrol in trouble at Strahov. The voice was shouting, he says, and out of breath. He fears the station will write him down as careless. His captain, Kapitán Novotný, took his log and told him to keep quiet. At noon Zima and Hruška climb to the gallery. Four empty hooks are all that is left of the Dorvanes, and Ester, the curator, who has stood in front of them every morning for twenty years, puts down a telephone as they come in. Later, at four, they sit down in Libuše's pub on the square, with Vávra at the taps. Libuše, who sleeps over the bar, heard the alarm ring out that night, and no car came. Novotný gives Zima three days before his report on the dispatcher goes up as it stands, and the Ministry wants a name by the end of the week. Three days, one police car on duty and a voice nobody can place: who was on the radio that night? From the series Velvet Shadows: a real 1990s Czech crime reimagined as a post-communist Prague noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Czech case of the 1990s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the night dispatcher, the police captain and the officers of his station, the gallery's curator, director and staff, ministry officials, the landlady and staff of a pub, the investigators, and anyone suspected or accused of the theft — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, police station or other public place, or a real public body, is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the gallery, the pub and the paintings named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Prague — late autumn 1993. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 A Wet Morning Behind the Bookshop1:48 Floor Wax and Police Tobacco at Noon3:34 Wet Gravel Behind the Gallery4:51 The Corner Table at Libuše's6:29 A Slot Under the Roof, Filled with Smoke7:47 A Counter, a Telephone and a Hissing Radio9:13 A Strip Light Buzzing in the Duty Corridor10:34 Patience Cards by a Dying Stove11:51 The Radio Room Behind the Night Desk13:40 Sweeping the Step at Dusk15:07 Chairs Going Up as the Fog Pressed In16:25 Five in a Little Office Under the Eaves17:55 Under the Four Empty Hooks19:50 Circling the Plague Column in Fog20:55 Police Before Ten in the Morning22:49 Hops and Cellar Damp in the Back Room24:58 One Bare Bulb and a Knocking Radiator #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
1d ago

Freedom in a Locker · Moscow Rules

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. A stranger on the telephone is selling a jailed oil baron's freedom for seven hundred thousand dollars, and the baron's wife, Olga, has already paid half in cash. The guards have gone, the gas is cut off, and she has kept one hand clenched shut for two days. Before she pays the rest, is the voice real? 🎧 Full episode of Moscow Rules: a modern spy and detective audio drama set in Moscow, a radio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Moscow, late autumn 2004. The gate of a big house outside the city stands wide and the guard's hut is empty when the detective Maksim Volkov and his companion Dr. Grigori Melnik, who writes things down, come up the lane from the train. Olga, the wife of the jailed oil baron Viktor Danilov, has telephoned Volkov: a stranger on the telephone, a self-styled fixer, is selling her husband's freedom, she has already paid half in cash, and she wants to know whether the voice is real before she pays the rest. Inside, the gas has been cut off and Fedya, her husband's aide of ten years, is carrying logs to the fire himself. Olga will say nothing more indoors: out on the birch path she describes a voice through a cloth that says it speaks for men in epaulettes. Back in the hall the telephone rings, and the voice wants the rest by Friday. Before it is over Volkov will also meet the baron's lawyer, Tarasenko, outside the remand prison; the baron's pilot, Zakhar, in a crew room behind the hangars; and Major Brandt of the Kazansky station transport police. Four days to Friday, a voice through a cloth and a wife who is not sure of anything any more: who is behind the voice? From the series Moscow Rules: a real post-Soviet event reimagined as a modern detective radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Russian case of the 2000s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the jailed businessman, his wife and family, his aide and household staff, his lawyer, his pilot and flight crew, prosecutors, generals, security officers and judges, government officials, company directors, transport police officers, the investigators, and anyone suspected or accused of making the telephone demands — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, station or other public place, or a real public body, is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the family house and the remand prison named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Moscow — late autumn 2004. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 An Open Gate and an Empty Guard Hut1:30 Dust Sheets and a Fire in the Drawing Room3:25 Out Between the Birches, Away from the Walls5:22 Coats On in the Hall as the Telephone Rang6:48 The Visitors' Door in the Old Prison Wall8:38 A Crew Room Behind the Hangars10:18 Wet Wool and Stewed Tea Under the Platforms12:41 One Lamp and a Sleepy Clerk Near Midnight13:56 The Last of the Birch on Olga's Fire15:36 Down a Highway of High Dark Fences17:09 Dusk and the One Lamp That Worked19:03 Back Under the Prison Wall by Eight20:36 Kerosene and Boot Polish by Daylight22:12 Down the Birch Path as the Light Failed23:33 A Dead Stove and an Empty Knife Block25:59 Sleet from the Ring Road to the River #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
1d ago

The Road to Italy · Vienna Files

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. A note under a Vienna dressmaker's door says her brother Anton, who went away three weeks ago for fear of the Russians, is safe in Italy. It has no envelope and no stamp, it is signed with his name, and its hand slopes and runs, though Anton printed every letter in square capitals. Who wrote it? 🎧 Full episode of Vienna Files: a post-war detective radio drama set in occupied Vienna, an audio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Vienna, the autumn of 1945. At lamp-lighting a dressmaker named Hedi climbs the mezzanine stair off the Herrengasse to see the detective August Brenner and the narrator, Fuchs, but will come no further than the mat. Her brother Anton, who traded in coffee, cigarettes and stockings, went away three weeks ago, afraid of what the Russians would do to a man like him. She will not go to the police, because a man who traded as he did would come home to a police file, so every night she searches the Resselpark bench by bench. Brenner has noticed that she has kept her left fist shut since she came in: there is paper in her glove. On the stair of her building in the Porzellangasse they meet Doctor Lindauer, who keeps his surgery there. In her workroom, among headless dummies and a half-finished wedding dress, she unfolds the paper. It lay under her door four days ago, with no envelope and no stamp: "I am safe in Italy. Don't worry for me, and don't go to the police." It is signed Anton. But Anton always printed, in great square capitals, because a nun once cracked his knuckles over joined writing at school, and this hand slopes and runs. Hedi leaves the note with Brenner and asks him to find who wrote it. At a bench in the Resselpark a trader called Yvette, who is not glad to see Hedi, says everybody traded with Anton. At a locked iron gate a caretaker, Frau Pospischil, says she has never laid eyes on him. Next morning Inspector Delago hears them out at his desk. Who is telling Hedi that her brother is safe? From the series Vienna Files: a real event of the 1940s reimagined as a post-war noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1940s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including a dressmaker and her family, black-market traders and their families, the neighbours, tenants and caretakers of a Vienna house, doctors and other professionals, clerks and officials, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, street, park or public body is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the houses, the gate and the offices named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Vienna — autumn 1945. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 A Caller Who Stops at the Mat1:34 Up a Stairwell That Had Lost Its Windows3:10 Headless Dummies in Pinned Muslin5:17 Anton's Room, Smelling of Coffee Beans6:30 Whispers Among the Resselpark Benches8:11 A Locked Iron Gate Beside a Lodge10:02 Cold Cigarette Ends at the Commissariat11:40 A Room No Wider Than a Tram13:14 A Pipe Gone Cold Past Midnight14:15 A Knock Upstairs, and No Answer15:50 Carbolic Down the Embankment17:48 Smoking Beneath a Sign Forbidding It19:11 A Few Sticks Burning in One Room21:11 Our Backs to the Black Water22:16 Delago Climbing the Stair24:11 One Bulb and One Table25:59 Sweeping Glass Off the Pavements #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
2d ago

No Envoy Came · Istanbul Confidential

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. Selim Hoca, a schoolteacher whose society was banned, goes to a hall in Istanbul to meet an envoy from Ankara. He is shot at the curb outside. The tea is untouched, the hall's telephone line has been cut with pliers, and the police director wants a quick verdict. Who shot him? 🎧 Full episode of Istanbul Confidential: a wartime espionage radio drama set in neutral Istanbul, an audio mystery performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Istanbul, February 1949. By dawn a constable has carried a letter from the police director, sealed twice, up to the rooms above a glass-roofed arcade in Péra where the detective Kemal Arslan lives with Captain Haluk Demir. The schoolteacher Selim Hoca, whose society was banned, has been shot at a curb in Cağaloğlu and has died, and the city, the director writes, requires a quick verdict, and a tidy one. Inspector Tahsin of the political section will assist in all things. At a columnist's desk in Cağaloğlu, Nigar, who walks with a stick, says she arranged quiet talks for Selim Hoca with an envoy from Ankara: tea in a neutral room at a hall two streets away, five o'clock, no police. She will not name the envoy in front of the inspector. At the hall its secretary, Muazzez, shows them two glasses, two saucers and the good sugar, and nobody drank a drop. The telephone is dead, its line cut with pliers in a coal cellar behind a locked kitchen, and the keys are on her ring. Before it is over Arslan will also hear from a night surgeon and from Selim's widow, Zeynep, in Fatih. He has the director's letter, a table laid for a guest who never came and a wire cut by hand. Who could have cut that wire? From the series Istanbul Confidential: a real event of the 1940s reimagined as a classic noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real event of the 1940s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the victim, a teacher who led a banned society, his widow and family, the society's members, a newspaper columnist, the staff of a hall and of a hospital, the police and the officers of a political section, government officials and ministers, the investigators, and anyone suspected or accused of the shooting — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, district, hospital, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the hall, the police offices and the directorate named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Istanbul — February 1949. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 The Director's Letter, Sealed Twice1:31 Three Steep Flights in Cağaloğlu3:12 Two Streets Down, Blinds Half Drawn4:57 Iron Balconies Above Sirkeci6:34 Back Up to Nigar Before the Lamps Were Lit8:17 Carbolic and Stewed Tea After Midnight10:32 A Lamp Held High, Coal Underfoot11:48 Covered Dishes at the Widow's Table13:13 A Samovar Hissing Back Home in Péra14:21 Among the Presses and the Cases of Type15:54 Sweeping the Hall's Front Step17:46 Late Afternoon, Three Flights Up Again19:25 Full Dark at the Curb20:28 Before Dawn Under the Surgeons' One Lamp22:17 Up Past the Switchboard at Eight24:41 Shutters Thrown Open to the Rooftops #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
2d ago

The Dead Button · Holmes NYC

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. A Manhattan jeweler says a masked gunman made her open her own safe. Her insurer's investigator says no door was forced, no safe was drilled, and the line to her panic button never once showed a fault in fourteen months of nightly checks. Was she robbed at gunpoint, or did she rob herself? 🎧 Full episode of Holmes NYC: a modern Sherlock Holmes audio drama, a radio mystery set in New York and performed by a full cast. Listen as a podcast, with full transcripts: https://mono-noir.transistor.fm/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Brooklyn, March 2021. On a Wednesday evening, with sleet ticking at the brownstone windows, Holmes has a crossword and a pencil and Dr. Watson is losing a war with an espresso machine, when a jeweler named Anouk knocks at the door. Her showroom in Manhattan was robbed that day, and before morning she needs a detective who works for her, not for her insurance company. At the showroom the insurer's investigator, Zabriskie, is already there beside the open safe, and much of the stock was only consigned to Anouk by other dealers. Outside in the sleet stands Captain Gallagher of Homicide. Her witnesses, a doorman and a dog walker, saw three masked men; the district attorney is pulling Anouk's bank records; and her demand of Holmes is plain: somebody else, or the DA charges Anouk. Back inside, Zabriskie's laptop holds fourteen months of nightly checks on the panic line, not one of them showing a fault, and Gallagher plays the recording of Anouk's nine-one-one call, made four minutes after the doorman saw the men walk off. Down in the basement the superintendent, Bruno, who loses his flat on Friday, refuses to open the steel room where the alarm line runs, and an electrician, Ray, up a ladder under a bare bulb, is working the landlord's halls at night. Whose account holds up? From the series Holmes NYC: a real New York crime reimagined as a modern Sherlock Holmes radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real New York case of the 2020s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including jewelers and shop owners, insurers and their investigators, building owners and staff, anyone suspected or accused of a robbery, the prosecutors, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the showroom, the building and the precinct named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York — March 2021. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 A Crossword and an Espresso Machine2:47 Glass Cases and an Open Safe4:27 Two Coffees Under the Scaffolding5:49 A Laptop Beside the Safe6:55 The Nine-One-One Recording8:24 Heating Oil and a Bare Bulb9:53 Packing Tape and Liquor-Store Boxes11:10 A Steel Door on Rusted Hinges12:41 Mailboxes and a Stepladder14:02 Near Midnight at the Emptied Safe15:26 Past One With the Heater Roaring16:25 First Light, Back Inside17:39 A Bolted Table in the Interview Room19:09 Toward Noon, Down on the Carpet20:53 A Midnight Walk Along the Park Wall21:54 Holmes Perched on the Counter at Nine23:41 A Hum of Fluorescent Tubes25:37 Back by the Knocking Radiator #MonoNoirRadioDrama #SherlockHolmes #AudioDrama
4d ago

Plated, Of No Value · Vienna Files — Detective Radio Drama

This radio drama uses AI-generated writing, voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. In the Vienna rain a woman finds her mother's Sabbath candlesticks on a market stall: silver that left her family's flat on a train which the Americans now hold under guard. The stallholder will say only that Vienna sells and she holds the scales. Who sold her the silver? 🎧 Full episode of Vienna Files: a post-war detective radio drama set in occupied Vienna, an audio mystery performed by a full cast. Read the story and the full transcript: https://matezz.com/episodes/plated-of-no-value-vienna-files-detective-radio-drama/ Stories, transcripts and the schedule: https://matezz.com 🎭 Directed Edition — every role cast for this story and every line performed with full voice direction. Vienna, the autumn of 1945. Ilona Vámos, soaked by the rain, climbs the mezzanine stair to the detective August Brenner's rooms off the Herrengasse, where the narrator, Dr. Fuchs, offers her a chair she will not take. On a stall at the Tannenmarkt she has found her mother's Sabbath candlesticks, a silver pair, the left one dented by her brother when he was five, and the stallholder, Marie, will not give them back. Men with armbands wrote the family's things into a ledger in their flat and sent them away on a train: the amber train, people call it now, the one the Americans caught and now hold under guard. Somebody carried the silver here, Brenner says. At the last stall in a lane where the city sells its grandmothers' things for bread, Marie rings the silver with a fingernail, asks three cartons of American cigarettes for the pair, and will say only that Vienna sells and she holds the scales. Brenner fetches Inspector Lang, who seizes the candlesticks as stolen goods and draws him aside: the Americans have filed a list with the police of train goods drawn out to furnish billets in Vienna, one lot only, two crates, to a captain in Döbling. Then Ilona asks to hold one of the candlesticks, and underneath something is cut into the silver. That evening the tall house in Döbling shows Brenner and the doctor its caretaker, Frau Radakowitsch, who has black under her nails and says she never goes near the Tannenmarkt, and Captain Pruett, who shows them the chit that sets the whole lot down as plated, of no value. Seven tenants have cellar keys, the crates sit in an open cellar, and nobody would report a piece missing from a lot written off as worthless. Brenner has a dented candlestick, a lane of other people's belongings and no seller's name. Who is selling the silver of the amber train? From the series Vienna Files: a real Austrian crime reimagined as a post-war noir radio mystery, performed by a full multi-voice AI cast with an original score and sound design. Loosely inspired by a real Austrian case of the 1940s. All names, characters, dialogue and events are fictional; the words, actions, motives and private lives of every character — including the survivors and their families, the market traders, the caretakers and tenants of a Vienna house, the officers, supply staff and guards of the occupying forces, the investigators and the police — are invented for drama, and so is the solution of the mystery. Where a real city, state, public body or newspaper is mentioned, its part in this story is invented; the market, the house and the offices named in it are invented too. This is a work of fiction, not a factual account of any real person or institution. No real person is portrayed, and no real individual, company or organisation is accused of any act shown here. Setting: Vienna — autumn 1945. Writer v2.7 — the studio's newest writing process: the plot is planned and checked by an AI story editor, then each act is drafted with the whole story in view and edited before a word is voiced — and then cast and performed with our new casting and voice direction. Chapters:0:00 Up the Mezzanine Stair in the Rain1:36 A Rain-Soaked Lane and the Last Stall3:23 Inspector Lang Fetched Through the Downpour5:23 A Borrowed Address in Döbling7:37 A Telegram Read Twice at the Schottenring8:53 The Market at Its Busiest Hour10:51 An Afternoon Call Upstairs in Döbling12:33 Notes Spread Across Brenner's Desk13:55 Back to Döbling With Ilona15:41 An Unannounced Caller at the Schottenring17:12 Carbolic, Wet Wool and a Market Shawl18:56 The Four of Us Among the Drips21:09 The Döbling Stair in the Dark22:24 A Whole Procession at a Lamp-Lit Door24:29 Lang Opens His Briefcase26:11 Up the Dark Stair, Two Steps at a Time #MonoNoirRadioDrama #NoirMystery #AudioDrama
5d ago

Around the World in Eighty Days, Part 11: The Eightieth Day · Jules Verne — Mono Noir Classics

THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 11 of 11: The Eightieth Day. Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days in a new English translation made for this production directly from Verne's French, acted by a full cast with music and sound. The last days of the wager: a steamer running out of coal, a landing at Liverpool where a certain detective has waited for his moment, a train to London, and a clock at the Reform Club. It is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness. In this part:0:00 Introduction0:50 Chapter XXXIII: In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion10:30 Chapter XXXIV: Which gives Passepartout the chance to make an atrocious pun, though perhaps a new...18:25 Chapter XXXV: In which Passepartout does not need to be told twice to do what his master bids him30:08 Chapter XXXVI: In which Phileas Fogg is once more at a premium on the market38:34 Chapter XXXVII: In which it is proved that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by this tour of the world,... Listen in order: this is Part 11 of 11. This is the last part of the book. Jules Verne's novel, complete and in order, in our own English translation from his French (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, 1872-73), made by Mono Noir with AI assistance. A few words of period language that are unkind to the peoples they describe are softened; Verne's own slips of fact and arithmetic are left as he wrote them. This audio drama uses an AI-assisted English translation, AI-generated voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4. The complete eight-hour audiobook, with all 37 chapters, is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEW7-CDeu8 (this part starts at 7:11:01). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/

Crime, mystery, and noir stories told through immersive radio drama. Mono Noir combines dialogue, music, and sound effects to bring its stories to life. Writing, voices, music, sound effects, and artwork are created using AI tools, with human listening, review, and revision shaping the finished episodes. Story pages and full transcripts: https://matezz.com

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