The Audio Drama Directory

Lydia Ryan never knew her mother’s family. But when she returns to find her childhood home ransacked, her parents gone, and a book that shouldn’t exist waiting for her, the bookish teenager’s insatiable curiosity leads her into a world of mystery, paranoia, and danger.

Presented through found-footage style surveillance recordings and the panopticon of social media in the near future, The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne follows Lydia and her friends – lovelorn Ethan and wannabe internet sensation Dee – as they race to discover the secrets of Lydia’s identity and escape a decades-long feud for control of her grandfather’s supernatural dominions.

Set in a deceptively familiar world of big data, perpetual surveillance, and machine-mediated communication, The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne weaves bitter family feuds and high-stakes intrigue together with light science fiction, fantasy, and cyberpunk elements to create a ‘magical surrealist’ audio drama about old wounds, dangerous secrets, and complicated legacies.