13 Episodes
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2025 First episode About Strada Drama Podcast A series of original productions for audio from acclaimed performimg arts group: Strada Drama
Publisher Thom McKeown
Category arts
Language en
Explicit No
First episode 18 Mar 2025
Latest episode 24 Sept 2026 Latest episodes 13 episodes in the feed.
24 Sept 2026
GRIEF IS THE PRICE WE PAY FOR LOVE Strada Drama: GRIEF IS THE PRICE WE PAY FOR LOVE
A distraught woman in her 50s has just left her beloved father, who has sadly died from a heart attack. Still trying to come to terms with this herself, she now faces and dreads the potentially devastating moment when she tells her late Dad's wife, her own mother - a lady in her 80s, that her loving husband of over 60 years has gone.
Read by Creato Voce
Written Produced and Edited by Thom McKeown
A Strada Drama original audio production © 2026
9 Sept 2026
GETS ON MY GOAT Strada Drama: GETS ON MY GOAT
GETS ON MY GOAT is a podcast from Strada Drama’s originator Thom McKeown - with actors voicing his irascible moaning grievances about contemporary life in a humorous format. The rants cover topics like snow, wasps, restaurants, cliches, shopping, etiquette, modern lazy language and obese people amongst other grumpy outburts!
Written Edited and Produced by Thom McKeown © 2026
1 Apr 2026
PERCY GIVES NOTES Strada Drama: PERCY GIVES NOTES
Percy Wynn, a rather camp, effeminate and flamboyantly enthusiastic individual, was once an assistant stage manager with the Ipswich and Suffolk Dramatic Society, but due to an unfortunate ‘personal’ incident, he felt it best to leave and move to pastures new. He is now based in Burley in Wharfedale, a West Yorkshire village between Otley and Ilkley in Yorkshire, where he runs the Ilkley Moor Bar Tat Amateur Dramatic Society.
Unfortunately 99.9% of the locals have no thespian background whatsoever, far less anything even remotely resembling acting talent, but Percy is determined that they will press on regardless to mount a stirring version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. Following what could only be vaguely described as a rehearsal, Percy gathers together his troupe and verbally enunciates his director’s ‘notes’ i.e. comments, recommendations and advice to the individuals within the gathered ensemble.
Written and Performed by THOM MCKEOWN
Strada Drama for Audio © 2024/2026
1 Apr 2026
THE PAPER ROSE Strada Drama: THE PAPER ROSE
A now-single man is still attempting to come to terms with his emotions, as his girlfriend has left and ended their relationship. In an effort to console himself, he's been playing maudlin country and western music in his flat. One evening, he notices a postcard has landed on the floor underneath the letter box - and therein begins a major and life-changing new chapter in his life.
with NOEL FRANSON and MAGGIE JOYCE-ANDERSON
Written Directed and Produced by Thom McKeown © Strada Drama 2026
25 Mar 2026
RETRIBUTION Strada Drama presents: RETRIBUTION
Set in the latter years of the 1970s, a brutal murder has been perpetrated against a black man in Yorkhire, England. Upon a tip-off, the police have arrested, under dubious and highly unorthodox methods, a young man, Michael Gallagher, on suspicion of having committed this heinous crime, which they believe was racially motivated. A veteran Detective Sergeant, John Pearce, begins an interrogation of the alleged culprit. What he will hear from the suspect proves to be extremely shocking.
• Please be aware that this drama contains extreme content and language which may prove to be offensive to listeners of a sensitive disposition.
Cast: Andrew Martin and Noel Franson
Written and Directed by Thom McKeown - abridged and adapted from his acclaimed stage and digital film production 'Blind Eye' © Strada/TM 2015-2026
15 Feb 2026
A NIGHT IN Strada Drama: A NIGHT IN
Ireland – in a small location named Braniel - during the Covid pandemic.
Married couple (Irish) Liam and (English) Beccy are in mid-disagreement about dinner. Unfortunately due to the then Covid pandemic, they're unable to go out for a romantic meal, so Liam has suggested they instead order and eat a home delivery meal. However, irascible, Ill-tempered Bridget can’t decide what to do, what outfit to wear, nor if or when she finally decides, what to eat. The atmosphere intensifies as bickering increases and animosities rise to the surface.
Cast: PENNI WEBB as Beccy THOM MCKEOWN as Liam
Written Edited and Directed by Thom McKeown © 2015
9 Jul 2025
THE FUNERAL Actors Noel Franson, Maggie Joyce, and Thom McKeown perform a dramatic reading of a play about funeral arrangements, revealing class tensions and family dynamics in Glasgow; this is a dramatic performance.
31 Mar 2025
PATER NOSTER Strada Drama: PATER NOSTER
A mother and daughter begin a conversation. Family affairs, intertwined with melancholic recollections, ambiguous resentments and dark secrets slowly begin to unravel between the pair, leading to a shocking and unexpected conclusion.
Cast: FREDA MACDONELL as Lorraine
PENNI WEBB as Melinda
STEWART ROSE as Father
Written Directed and Edited by Thom McKeown
A Strada Drama Audio Production © 2020
31 Mar 2025
BARKING Strada Drama: BARKING
He is addressing Nathan - but what is the source of this lengthy utterance, and by whom - and why?
Written Edited and Performed by Thom McKeown
A Strada Drama Audio Production © 2019
31 Mar 2025
BLAME Strada Drama: BLAME
The plays opengs in a courtroom, where a woman is being examined by a solicitor, with regard to serious charges against her husband. These are - the murder of their young son, and of rape and multiple instances of domestic abuse including grievous bodily harm against the wife. Due to earlier proceedings having been halted due to the highly disruptive behaviour of the accused man, he is being held in the cells below whilst his wife is in the dock. He will return later whilst his wife views proceedings from another room by videolink.
Cast: MAGGIE JOYCE | NOEL FRANSON | THOM MCKEOWN
Written Edited and Directed by Thom McKeown © 2022
31 Mar 2025
A GREY AREA Strada Drama: A GREY AREA
In a societal reversal, a caucasian man and a man of darker-skin begin a heated debate on culture and race in this alternative world.
Written Edited and Performed by Thom McKeown
A Strada Drama Audio Production © 2025
19 Mar 2025
CRUSH Strada Drama: CRUSH
In the empty classroom of a school is Robert Duffy, a sensitive and decent school teacher - and Sandra McNamara, a diligent and fiercely intelligent teenage student in his class - who both become potential participants in a seemingly impossible romance.
Cast: NOEL FRANSON as Robert Duffy MAGGIE JOYCE as Sandra McNamara
Written Directed and Edited by Thom McKeown © 2021
18 Mar 2025
HOW DARE YOU! Strada Drama: HOW DARE YOU!
Chatty chums Larry and Fiona meet up for a coffee and chin-wag about their mutual recent supermarket outing, and a slight tiff develops!
Cast: ANDREW MARTIN, MAGGIE JOYCE
Written Directed and Edited by Thom McKeown © 2024
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