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Claybourne

· 96 broadcasts

Claybourne is a 1998 New Zealand radio serial that blends science fiction, supernatural thriller, and soap opera. Thompson, an American drifting through the country's far north after a bad breakup, is asked by his employer -- the communications giant Koestler Industries -- to look into a 'problem' at their remote satellite station. What he finds is a small township full of secrets: the suspicious death of a Koestler behavioural psychologist, the Te Whenua o Te Irirangi people and their kaumatua Mata, a bartender named Karen, and undercurrents of tapu, conspiracy, an unexplained death rate, and rumours of dragons. Made by Pronoun Productions (Andrew Dubber and Belinda Todd) with New Zealand On Air funding, and written by and starring Jim McLarty and William Davis, Claybourne aired on Newstalk ZB four days a week in five-minute installments -- an addictive, cliff-to-cliff serial that was 'deliberately and proudly New Zealand in its language, humour and accent' and consciously cinematic in its sound design. It won Best Dramatic Production at the 1999 New Zealand Radio Awards. The 96 surviving episodes are one complete story arc of a planned two; funding ended the show on a cliffhanger. Released later under a Creative Commons licence, it became one of the most popular spoken-word programmes on MP3.com and found a second life as a podcast. This is a continuing serial and no per-episode plot text survives in the free record, so the catalog carries the full titled run in story order without invented synopses.

Collection status: 96 of 96 held (100% complete)
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Episode Spine

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date unknown Arrival Listen (MP3)
date unknown Warning Listen (MP3)
date unknown Car Trouble Listen (MP3)
date unknown Dead Body Listen (MP3)
date unknown Identified Listen (MP3)
date unknown Recognition Listen (MP3)
date unknown Interrogated Listen (MP3)
date unknown Electricity Listen (MP3)
date unknown Morgue Listen (MP3)
date unknown Domestic Violence Listen (MP3)
date unknown Prank Call Listen (MP3)
date unknown Natural Causes Listen (MP3)
date unknown Falling Out Listen (MP3)
date unknown Radio Listen (MP3)
date unknown Alliance Listen (MP3)
date unknown Coin Trick Listen (MP3)
date unknown Car Accident Listen (MP3)
date unknown Conflict Listen (MP3)
date unknown Bad Call Listen (MP3)
date unknown Advice Listen (MP3)
date unknown Bio Weapons Listen (MP3)
date unknown Family Listen (MP3)
date unknown The Welcoming Listen (MP3)
date unknown Reconciliation Listen (MP3)
date unknown Returning Listen (MP3)
date unknown Detour Listen (MP3)
date unknown Eeling Listen (MP3)
date unknown Earthquake Listen (MP3)
date unknown Not an Earthquake Listen (MP3)
date unknown Son of a Warrior Listen (MP3)
date unknown Elle McPherson Listen (MP3)
date unknown 120 Grand Listen (MP3)
date unknown Blackmail Listen (MP3)
date unknown Shaving Cream Listen (MP3)
date unknown Tangaroa Listen (MP3)
date unknown Fraud Listen (MP3)
date unknown Mind Control Listen (MP3)
date unknown Burial Cave Listen (MP3)
date unknown Nightmare Listen (MP3)
date unknown Weta Listen (MP3)
date unknown Legless Listen (MP3)
date unknown Twilight Zone Listen (MP3)
date unknown Room Service Listen (MP3)
date unknown Funds Transfer Listen (MP3)
date unknown Sweet and Sour Listen (MP3)
date unknown 51 Percent Listen (MP3)
date unknown Stamping Listen (MP3)
date unknown Happy Pills Listen (MP3)
date unknown Chez Moi Listen (MP3)
date unknown Fine Print Listen (MP3)
date unknown Back in 10 mins Listen (MP3)
date unknown Encrypted Listen (MP3)
date unknown Random Rotation Listen (MP3)
date unknown History Lesson Listen (MP3)
date unknown Hangover Listen (MP3)
date unknown Feng Shui Listen (MP3)
date unknown Phoning Mongolia Listen (MP3)
date unknown Pawn to Bishop 3 Listen (MP3)
date unknown Password Latte Listen (MP3)
date unknown Risk Management Listen (MP3)
date unknown Punching Bag Listen (MP3)
date unknown Chopper Man Listen (MP3)
date unknown On The House Listen (MP3)
date unknown Sucking Face Listen (MP3)
date unknown Sorcery Listen (MP3)
date unknown Private Joke Listen (MP3)
date unknown Family Tree Listen (MP3)
date unknown Master Override Listen (MP3)
date unknown Holiday Rescinded Listen (MP3)
date unknown Bloodsports Listen (MP3)
date unknown Paranoia Listen (MP3)
date unknown Morphine Addict Listen (MP3)
date unknown Virgin Murder Listen (MP3)
date unknown Beached Whale Listen (MP3)
date unknown Abduction Listen (MP3)
date unknown Counterfeit Listen (MP3)
date unknown Delilah Listen (MP3)
date unknown Hit the Hit Man Listen (MP3)
date unknown Multiple Shootings Listen (MP3)
date unknown Released Listen (MP3)
date unknown Aftermath Listen (MP3)
date unknown Murder Theory Listen (MP3)
date unknown The Fall of Troy Listen (MP3)
date unknown Still Blood Listen (MP3)
date unknown Interfering Listen (MP3)
date unknown Bit Like Jesus Listen (MP3)
date unknown Weird Dreams Listen (MP3)
date unknown Jungle Warfare Listen (MP3)
date unknown Passing Listen (MP3)
date unknown Bad to Worse Listen (MP3)
date unknown Hallucination Listen (MP3)
date unknown Confessions Listen (MP3)
date unknown Pot Shots Listen (MP3)
date unknown Everyone Dies Listen (MP3)
date unknown Surprise Visit Listen (MP3)
date unknown FINALE Company Calls Listen (MP3)
The Story

Claybourne is a 1998 New Zealand radio serial that blends science fiction, supernatural thriller, and soap opera. Thompson, an American drifting through the country's far north after a bad breakup, is asked by his employer -- the communications giant Koestler Industries -- to look into a 'problem' at their remote satellite station. What he finds is a small township full of secrets: the suspicious death of a Koestler behavioural psychologist, the Te Whenua o Te Irirangi people and their kaumatua Mata, a bartender named Karen, and undercurrents of tapu, conspiracy, an unexplained death rate, and rumours of dragons. Made by Pronoun Productions (Andrew Dubber and Belinda Todd) with New Zealand On Air funding, and written by and starring Jim McLarty and William Davis, Claybourne aired on Newstalk ZB four days a week in five-minute installments -- an addictive, cliff-to-cliff serial that was 'deliberately and proudly New Zealand in its language, humour and accent' and consciously cinematic in its sound design. It won Best Dramatic Production at the 1999 New Zealand Radio Awards. The 96 surviving episodes are one complete story arc of a planned two; funding ended the show on a cliffhanger. Released later under a Creative Commons licence, it became one of the most popular spoken-word programmes on MP3.com and found a second life as a podcast. This is a continuing serial and no per-episode plot text survives in the free record, so the catalog carries the full titled run in story order without invented synopses.

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