Original audio drama with spectacular soundscapes, based on the Greco-Roman myths behind the constellations. Written and directed by Bibi Jacob, these moving and sometimes humorous tales, brim with tragedy, injustice, and violence.
When Bibi gets stuck writing the Prometheus episode, she calls her good friend Morag. Together will they find a way through? This episode concludes Season 3 and includes extracts from Ovid and Aeschylus, some chit-chat and a beautiful poem by Morag Cross.
Sound by Geoff Chong.
Production by Geoff Chong & Bibi Jacob.
The Ovid extract is from Metamorphoses 1.76–88 in a translation by A.S. Kline
The Prometheus Unbound extract, translated by Smythe, appears in Cicero's Tusculan Disputations (Book 2, Section 10.23-25) not one of his speeches!
Stelliferous' Heracles post: https://rebelstargazer.substack.com/p/hercules
My article on writer's block: https://buymeacoffee.com/talesofthenightsky/what-blocking-writer
4 Mar 2026
S3 E12 Chiron: The Constellation of Centaurus
When Heracles accidentally wounds Chiron with an arrow dipped in the Hydra's blood, the immortal centaur must fight the spreading poison. As fever takes hold, time collapses, pulling him into visions of the past and a future filled with war and death.
Written by Morag Cross.
Directed by Bibi Jacob.
Featuring:
Gordon Peaston as Chiron.
Doug Rand as Heracles.
Morag Cross as Narrator and Okyrrhoe.
Tercelin Kirtley as Peleus.
Tom Morton as Achilles.
Felix and Albert Giddingstone as Young Achilles.
Original compositions written and performed by Chloe Dunn. Listen to Chloe's single Aphrodite Leaves.
Outro theme, soundcapes and production by Geoff Chong.
Sources for this episode include: The Mithras Liturgy, a greek papyrus of magic healing spells; Philostratus the Elder Imagines 2.2 ; Homer's Iliad, Book XI; Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 6; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, Book 4; Eratosthenes; Hyginus; Ovid Metamorphoses, Book 2.
Thanks to Cicely and Frog.
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10 Jan 2026
Bonus Episode: Iynx
A iynx is a bird or a spinning love charm. But before that Iynx was an Arcadian nymph, seeking revenge…
Written and narrated by Bibi Jacob.
Original music composed and performed by Chloe Dunn.
Sound and production by Geoff Chong.
Listen to Chloe's EP Blossom on Spotify
Check out our post about Iynx on Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/mythhead/iynx
Sources for this episode: Pindar's, Pythian Ode 4; Sarah Iles Johnston, The Song of the Iynx: Magic and Rhetoric in Pythian 4; Theocritus, Idyll 2.
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