Akiha Den Den

Akiha Den Den

A unique audio drama series created by writer/director Neil Cargill and musician/sound designer Simon James featuring an original electronic music score and full cast including Ian McDiarmid, famed for his role as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga, as Cuttings – the radio ham who picks up a mysterious voice. The voice belongs to a girl (Joy McAvoy, from Ken Loach's The Angels' Share and Filth) trapped in an abandoned amusement park called Akiha Den Den.

  • 2 minutes 31 seconds
    old arcade machines
    Macrell in her observatory soaks in your voices, stories, first words, final words... but another signal has been swamping you - and it seems to be coming from deep within Akiha's rusting old arcade machines...
    8 December 2016, 11:43 am
  • 29 minutes 10 seconds
    Series 1 - Episode 6 - Viral
    Their words have been reaching you – but what about the voices that have reached them? Incoming. Peri is devastated when she discovers the truth.
    24 November 2016, 5:43 pm
  • 1 minute 1 second
    ep 6 trailer
    Coming soon, episode 6, 'Viral'.
    22 November 2016, 7:24 pm
  • 19 minutes 37 seconds
    Series 1 - Episode 5 - The Cantina of Lost Souls
    Both Cuttings and Peri realise Monday Man knows something. Perhaps he knows you. Or do you know something he wants?
    10 November 2016, 7:29 am
  • 1 minute 14 seconds
    Series 1 - Episode 5 Trailer 'The Cantina of Lost Souls'
    Both Cuttings and Peri realise Monday Man knows something. Perhaps he knows you. Or do you know something he wants?
    9 November 2016, 11:53 am
  • 12 minutes 17 seconds
    Series 1 - Episode 4 - Get Me A Stinking Goosefoot
    Bullhook clings grimly onto life, while Peri warns that the rumours, ignorance and fear in Akiha will reel you in, brainwash you, tie you up in a tangle of words.
    26 October 2016, 5:49 pm
  • 1 minute 17 seconds
    Series 1 - Episode 4 Trailer
    A trailer for episode 4 'Get Me A Stinking Goosefoot'.
    25 October 2016, 7:57 pm
  • 13 minutes 30 seconds
    Series 1 - Episode 3 - Silencing Hand
    With Cuttings silenced, Peri too is gagged. Trying to work out how and why, she leads us ever deeper inside her thoughts.
    25 October 2016, 7:16 pm
  • 3 minutes 18 seconds
    Bonus OST Digging in the Dust
    This week's Bonus OST is taken from Episode 3.
    20 October 2016, 11:22 am
  • 1 minute 54 seconds
    Bonus OST - Silph
    In between fortnightly episodes of Akiha Den Den we are sharing excerpts from the soundtrack. This week, a piece of music taken from episode 2, and a scene introducing the thought mining cockroach, SIlph. It features heavy use of the EMS Synthi A, a 1971 synth from the pioneering British company that supplied instruments to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and various psychedelic rock bands of the time. Its sounds turned up in many early episodes of Dr Who (most notably Sea Devils with Jon Pertwee) introducing young minds to some quite challenging sounds!
    6 October 2016, 9:24 am
  • 27 minutes 43 seconds
    Series 1 - Episode 2 - Who's With You
    Someone's watching. Squinting out from below a leaf, keeping an eye on the panatrope, the cantina, the wall all around. Silph sees everything.
    29 September 2016, 11:19 am
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