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The BBC and DARKFIELD present
an unnerving trilogy of immersive binaural experiences.
Meet yourself in the DEADHOUSE.

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DEADHOUSE is a trilogy of immersive audio horror shorts, all for a single listener, lying down, with their eyes closed. Headphones are essential. The listener becomes the subject while the binaural sound surrounds and creeps towards them. Their familiar environments slip away, to be replaced by other, less comfortable, worlds that feel unnervingly real. Each episode is for the cold and the callous amongst us, and takes a look at the separation of mind and body.

CREATIVE TEAM

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: David Rosenberg & Glen Neath
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Matthew Blake
CREATIVE PRODUCER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Victoria Eyton
PRODUCTION COORDINATORS: Sara Codrington & Mario Ruiz
SOUND ASSOCIATE: Anna Sulley
CASTING: John Cannon
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Michael Salmon
GRAPHIC DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION: Roxane Dewar

EPISODES

  • What if death is merely a pause? If you could live for just one more day, is that an offer you’d take up?

    You come into consciousness. You cannot speak. You cannot move. You cannot even make it understood that you hear everything going on around you. All you can do is listen as your fate and the fate of all the other recovered bodies on the ward with you are determined by petty-minded bureaucrats.

    “My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxious thoughts” - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • This podcast contains adult themes that some listeners may find upsetting, including references to: medical procedures, bodily fluids, death, dead bodies, physical violence and features strong language.

  • DIRECTOR: Lanna Joffrey
    ADMINISTRATOR: Nathalie Armin
    FRANK: Amit Shah
    JOHN (ORDERLY): John Dagleish

    ALL OTHER PARTS: Kathryn McGarr, Mia Jerome, Nigel Barrett, Mercy Ojelade, Linden Walcott-Burton, Jun Kim, Matthew Blake, Lanna Joffrey, Rakhee Sharma and Walles Hamonde.

    Special thanks go to Samuel Booth, Premises Studio and Karolina Jedrezejczyk from Sound Disposition

  • What if another mind could inhabit your body? Would you happily hand over the reins to them?

    Having been lulled into a hypnotic trance by a soporific voice you wake up somewhere you didn’t expect. You spend the next 20 minutes finding out where you have been and what you have done...

    “If a person can on occasion understand, or better still, speak a language, of which, in his normal state, he is completely ignorant; if he can manifest the physical miracle of levitation or perform unaccountable feats of strength, and if he can correctly predict the future or describe events taking place at a distance - then that person may be presumed to be possessed by devils” - Aldous Huxley (The Devils of Loudun)

  • This podcast contains adult themes that some listeners may find upsetting. Do not listen to this episode if you are particularly susceptible to hypnosis or suggestion.

    This podcast contains references to: Hypnosis, Extreme Violence, Murder, Animal Cruelty, Strong language.

    No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast.

  • WOMAN: Rosie Cavaliero
    MAN: John Dagleish
    SALEM: Siyah the Dog

    Special thanks go to Noa Bodner, Nasim and Jan Körting, Premises Studios and Karolina Jedrezejczyk from Sound Disposition

  • What if consciousness outlives the body? What if there was an experience of being dead?

    You are dead. Your eyes do not react to light, in fact all your reflexes are absent. And that is because you are dead. Even if you were to briefly sit up, like Lazarus, it wouldn’t alter the fact. And they are burying you in the ground because you are dead. Hell, it turns out, is simply disembodied life.

    "Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious" - Daniel Dennett

  • This podcast contains adult themes that some listeners may find upsetting.

  • DEATH: Kenneth Cranham
    DIENER: Amit Shah
    MOTHER: Nathalie Armin
    PORTER/FERRYMAN: John Dagleish

    HOSPITAL STAFF, MOURNERS & ALL OTHER CHARACTERS: Kathryn McGarr, Mia Jerome, Nigel Barrett, Mercy Ojelade, Linden Walcott-Burton, Jun kim, Matthew Blake, Lanna Joffrey, Rakhee Sharma and Walles Hamonde.

    Special thanks go to Premises Studio and Karolina Jedrezejczyk from Sound Disposition.