A dark fantasy thriller audio drama.
When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place...
Remnants is a dark fantasy thriller audio drama following the Apprentice as he learns how to read remnants under the frustrating supervision of Sir. Remnants are seemingly innocuous objects – a broken pocket watch; a steel thimble; a silk scarf – but when the Apprentice looks closely, he sees how each one holds the remnants of someone’s life story.
Each week the Apprentice reads a new remnant, following that person’s journery beginning to end. When he’s done, he must make a judgement; shelve or discard. But he doesn’t know what the criteria is or what the consequences of such a judgement might be.
The more remnants the Apprentice reads, the more we begin to understand the magnitude of the task he has been set. And the more both we, and the Apprentice himself, wonder why it is him who has been chosen to do it.
With every week, a new mystery. With every new mystery, a terrible choice.
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58. Pile of Pages
Sir decides to show the Apprentice a remnaNt he has beEn too afraid to show him before.
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Sep 22 33 min
57. Knotted Threads
In the afteR math of what the Apprentice has seen about himself, he and Sir wander the first and last place, and wOnder about their place in its midst.
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Sep 7 19 min
56. Empty Space
Sir and the Apprentice find themselves on different paThs, but they may not necEssarily take them different places.
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Aug 24 25 min
55. Nurse's Watch
Unable to rest, the Apprentice tries to read Another remnant, but Sir stops him beFore he can.
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Aug 10 33 min
54. Box Without a Lid
Back in anotheR familiar place, the Apprentice is Accosted by concern and, maybe, the remnants themselves.
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Jul 27 34 min
53. Beaded Bracelet
The Apprentice finds himself in a verY familiar place, and his frustration isn’t Doing him any favours.
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Jul 9 28 min
52. Tin Soldier
The Apprentice has a theory for where they’re goinG. Sir doesn’t know if he likes the sound of it. But tHen, Sir is not a thing that knows. Or at least, he never used to
Jun 25 35 min
51. Letters in a Bottle
Walking across the dUst, Sir and the Apprentice compare perspectives, and uNcover a bottle filled with them.
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Jun 11 30 min
50. Mooring Line
The Apprentice finds a strand of Yarn, as he falls, alone, through nOwhere.
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May 14 33 min
49. Spine
Sir and the Apprentice revisit some locatioNs they have visited before, with new context And perspectives.
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Apr 30 23 min
48. Spilled Ink
In the light of recent revelatiOns, the Apprentice decIdes to take a walk.
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Apr 16 30 min
47. Burnt Letters
A return to the corriDor with the furnaCes challenges the Apprentice’s latest theories about the First and Last Place.
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Apr 6 19 min
46. Leash
The First and Last Place has shifted again, and the Apprentice choOses to read another remnant, hoping it wilL lead him to freedom.
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Mar 19 33 min
45. Splintered Wood
The Apprentice reads the rest of a remnAnt. What he learns maY be the key to his release.
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Mar 5 26 min
44. Broken Paintbrush
The Apprentice wakeS agAin.
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Feb 19 24 min
43. Scrap of Fabric
Sir questions the mAnner in which the remnants aRe discovered, and where he and the Apprentice might fit within a larger picture of what has happened to them both.
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Feb 5 26 min
42. Snail Shell
Sir attemptS a new strategy for rousing the Apprentice, bringing him a delicaTe snail shell.
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Jan 22 31 min
41. 'Stars'
Sir is reaching a place of desperatioN and is desperate to find anY meaning in it.
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Jan 8 25 min
40. Dripping Paint
The Apprentice continues to read the empty canvas with dripping paint, and a faMiliar imAge begins to emerge.
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Dec 15 2025 26 min
39. Empty Canvas
The Apprentice and Sir find themselves in Another new place, but still find more queStions than answers.
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Dec 8 2025 30 min
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Talented cast, good atmosphere. Too much of the framing story dialogue is “I don’t understand” or some variation of the sentiment. It gets old very quickly, especially in season 2. We know the apprentice doesn’t understand, it’s a mystery. We don’t need to be told 10x an episode. The stories themselves and how they knit together are great. I don’t pick up on the horror elements, nothing gives a sense of unease, I actually find it a very emotionally peaceful and pleasant story.
Nora.aaaa · Nov 2025
I had heard of this advertised on several episodes of The Magnus Archives (which I listen to regularly and all the way through. I never grow tired of it.). And I wanted to check it out before I started MA again. And all the sudden I’m crying at my desk at work because a young man gave another guy a ring, and one described his freckles. This is beautifully written. I keep waiting for it to get old or boring. But no. Thank you for yet another audio drama I adore.
sidney-52 · Nov 2025
Unique, poetic, pulls you into its depths, makes you think, wonder. Makes you want to start from the beginning and pay better attention. Lulls you to sleep at times except for the ads, which aren’t nearly as bad as most. ((It’s just the advertisers, all of them, are abrasive and intrusive in their style which actually makes a person not want to listen)).
This is like water that starts as ice melt at the top of a mountain, becomes a trickle over rocks, a steady stream, a little river, turns and twists, divides, sometimes a pond takes form and sometimes one already formed flows over and adds to the little torrent that’s become from just a little blip in time. Tributaries that add to and break away and some to say they saw it all and a sea for it to pour into, an ocean it becomes.
That’s this, to me, this story of stories and the places it folds and bends and is witnessed.
SolKMM · Sep 2025
“Oh, THAT'S what's going on!” I literally said this out loud after I listened to the fourth episode. It's quite well done, and the creator spent a lot of time not just getting things right, but with subtle audio elements that help you fall into this mostly narrated tale. It's worth multiple listens!
I’m still Evo Terra · Jul 2025
I realized in the middle of listening to this during my shift that I can’t actually follow what’s going on… this show has extremely long and descriptive narration that would fit better in a novel. It’s narration with the narrator also reading the dialogue of the characters and using “he said / she said” to differentiate… ie, an audiobook. I appreciate the effort made with this but it’s hard to follow along, not to mention the narrator has a high and mumbling voice which makes it even harder to follow 😭.
letthemeatwords · Sep 2025
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