Welcome, Traveler.
At The Penumbra Podcast, you’ll dive into thrilling worlds! Join Juno Steel, a sharp-witted private eye on Mars, as he faces ancient alien artifacts, a mysterious homme fatale, and his biggest fears: heights, blood, and relationships.
Or step into The Second Citadel, where the fierce Sir Caroline leads her team of knights against mind-bending monsters… even ones they’ve fallen in love with.
These epic audio dramas and more await you in The Penumbra Podcast, dear traveler. Adventure, mystery, and romance await!
Enjoy your stay!
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From the very beginning, we've aimed to pay our artists and actors fairly, and we’re proud to have done so since 2016. Our competitive hourly rates cover actors, recording studios, sound engineers, musicians, designers, writers, and directors because their work is invaluable and irreplaceable. If you want to see more cool projects—live shows, livestreams, and genre-defying stories—supporting us through pledges helps secure the time and resources we need.
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Latest Episode
5.14: Juno Steel and the Case Closed (part 2)
Posted August 20, 2024
Home is what you make it.
If Memory Serves: A Juno Steel Mystery
Our brand new audiobook is only available on The Penumbra Special Edition.
This is being released as it's produced, for a limited time only, before it's up for sale to the public!
Penumbra in the News
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wbur Presents: The Makers
Creator, Harley Takagi Kaner is one WBUR’s 15 artists of color leaving an imprint on Massachusetts.
“How many male bisexual leads can you think of in media?”
That’s the question that sent Harley Tagaki Kaner, 32, down an odyssey they didn’t expect to embark on. One podcast, two wildly different nonfiction storylines and over 8 million downloads, all spurred by Takagi Kaner’s desire to have representation — of themself.
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“The Penumbra Podcast is an exciting and heart-wrenching chocolate box of a show that celebrates and normalises diversity and deals with hard-hitting topics in ways that always feel genuine, rather than exploitative, especially considering the wealth of queer characters in its cast. Every performance in the show is impeccable, as is the sound design: I cannot recommend this show enough.”
2019’s Top Web Series
We were number 17 on Tumblr’s Year in Review, under 2019’s Top Web Series.This list has everything: half-orc warlocks, personified emotions, huntsmen and huntresses, brotherly banter, and more cryptids than you can shake a stick at.
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Currently, we use Supercast and Paypal for all donations.