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“IT’S ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING - AND AN INCREDIBLE LESSON IN INVENTIVE STORYTELLING - TO SEE THE LAYERS GRADUALLY PEEL BACK TO REVEAL MORE AND MORE OF THIS WORLD AND IT'S HISTORY.”
- BOOK RIOT

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Each season of Within the Wires stands alone as its own story, with different narrators and timelines, but they do overlap. You can immerse yourself in the entire universe by listening to the first five seasons, or start listening to the most recent season.

An immersive fiction podcast using found audio from an alternate universe.

Season 9 of Within the Wires, “Audiobook”, is a romantic drama told entirely through outtakes from an audiobook recording session. Actress Kat Waterford arrives in studio to record a children’s history textbook, but she discovers that her director just happens to be her estranged ex-wife.

Starring Robin Virginie. Featuring original music by Mary Epworth. Directed by Janina Matthewson. Written by Matthewson and Jeffrey Cranor.

New episodes weekly through December 17.

Within the Wires is written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson, with original music by Mary Epworth.

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New Novel: You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson

A FASCINATING LAYERING OF FICTION, INVENTION, SATIRE AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE WHICH EXPLORES MUCH MORE THAN JUST THE BACKSTORY OF AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY.
- KIRKUS (starred-review)

A novel by Night Vale co-writer Jeffrey Cranor and Within the Wires co-writer Janina Matthewson.

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A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman’s unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save. A jarring and uncanny tale of loss, trauma, and the power of human connection and deception, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a portrait of a disturbing alternate world eerily within reach.

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Past Seasons

Season One, "Relaxation Cassettes," takes the form of an audio course in full body relaxation issued by The Institute to you, (the listener) a nameless medical inmate. Is the narrator relaying something more than just relaxation techniques? As listeners move through the relaxation curriculum a deeper and more personal story unravels. (narrated by Janina Matthewson)
Start with Season One, Cassette One on Apple Podcasts

Season Two, "Museum Audio Tours," tells its story in the guise of ten audio museum guides. Over the course of a decade of worldwide exhibitions, artist and scholar Roimata Mangakahia’s walkthroughs unravel the complex story of a mysterious disappearance of famous artist, and Roimata’s friend, Claudia Atieno. (narrated by Rima Te Wiata)
Start with Season Two, Cassette One on Apple Podcasts

Season Three, "Dictation," is a political thriller set in 1950s Chicago told exclusively through dictated letters and notes from a bureaucrat to his secretary. Michael Witten is committed to the building of a New Society, after the global destruction caused by the Great Reckoning. But a political rival with a suspicious past reappears in Europe. Alliances are delicate and intricate, and Michael doesn’t know whom he can trust. (narrated by Lee LeBreton)
Start with Season Three, Reel One on Apple Podcasts


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Cast/Crew

Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson

Season Four performed by Mona Grenne
Season Three performed by Lee LeBreton
Season Two performed by Rima Te Wiata
Season One performed by Janina Matthewson

Music by Mary Epworth

Logo by Rob Wilson

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