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Mockery Manor
Long Cat Media · Stories · English
Summer, 1989, somewhere in deepest darkest England. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it's up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer. British Podcast Awards 'Best Fiction' Nominee 2020. If you like Widow's Bay, Hot Fuzz , and Only Murders In The Building ,
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S4 · E6 · 22 Sep 2026 · 26 min
S4 E3 - Red Snapper
Previously on Mockery Manor... Matty has stowed away on board the Whimsy, assisted by his lover and co-conspirator Debbie, who is posing as the ship's nurse. JJ is blindsided by the revelation that Parker has just been dumped by an on-off girlfriend after seven years, despite him never once mentioning her. The pair then lay a wager on who can bed the most people before their week on the Whimsy is out. Meanwhile, a lone, vaguely French-sounding someone is lured into Mermaid Booboos' Aquarium of Wonders, before being chloroformed by a sinister masked figure.CONTENT WARNINGS for this episode:…
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S4 · E5 · 8 Sep 2026 · 24 min
S4 E2 - Jaws Of The Monster
Previously on Mockery Manor... JJ and Parker welcome the old bigwigs of Wizzzard Entertainment to The Whimsy, Margot Mockery's theme park cruise ship. Margot rehearses the ship's musical, The Spirit Of The Manor with special guest star Lydia, and tasks JJ and Parker's new assistant, Frances, with spying on Urs Muller, a wealthy Wizzzard who is yet to invest in The Whimsy. Meanwhile, cruise director Davina is stuck on land with norovirus, and the ship's doctor hasn't turned up either! But all is not lost - the mysterious and beautiful ship's nurse, Debbie, has found a last minute…
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S4 · E4 · 1 Sep 2026 · 12 min
Radio Whimsy #1 - Lydia Interview, Dreamland and More!
Welcome to... RADIO WHIMSY!Join Captain JJ for his cruise ship radio show, featuring excerpts from Margot Mockery's exciting new musical, THE SPIRIT OF THE MANOR, as well as interviews with the cast!Mockery Manor was written by Lindsay Sharman, and directed by Lindsay Sharman and Laurence Owen. Music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen.Featuring: Nicholette Chew as Lydia, and John Henry Falle as The Captain. Additional voices by Laurence Owen and Lindsay Sharman.----Buy all seasons of Mockery Manor on BandcampGet yourself some Mockery Manor merch from the Long Cat shopSupport Lindsay…
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S4 · E3 · 25 Aug 2026 · 30 min
S4 E1 - Inverted Triangle
It's finally time! Mockery Manor returns for Season 4. All aboard The Whimsy!Mockery Manor was written by Lindsay Sharman, and directed by Lindsay Sharman and Laurence Owen. Music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen.Featuring: Hayley Evenett as JJ, Laurence Owen as Parker, Giuseppe, Luke, Dr Cameron and additional voices, Beth Eyre as Nurse Debbie, Lindsay Sharman as Margot and additional voices, Nicholette Chew as Lydia, Chardae Phillips as Frances, Ivan Wilkinson as Ralph, Josh Taylor as Otis, and John Henry Falle as the Captain.CONTENT WARNINGS: Murder, references to addiction.The…
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S4 · E2 · 25 Aug 2026 · 8 min
Mockery Manor Recap (with Magenta & Bernard)
Trousers Meowsers! Season 4 is finally here!And what do you need when one of your favourite shows really drags its feet and doesn't release a new season for three years, and now you can't remember what the hell was going on? That's right - A RECAP!Magenta & Bernard are here to recap the whole of Mockery Manor Seasons 1-3, so you can feel refreshed and ready to dive into the first new episode. Buy all seasons of Mockery Manor on BandcampGet yourself some Mockery Manor merch from the Long Cat shopSupport Lindsay & Laurence Long Cat on Ko-fiFollow Long Cat Media on YouTube See Privacy Policy at…
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8 Apr 2026 · 2 min
We're leaving Spotify. Let's keep in touch!
Here's the link to our Bandcamp pageAnd here's the link to our Ko-fi pageHello, listeners! It’s us again. Hopefully you listened to our last message. If you didn’t, it was about how we’re taking all our shows off Spotify.And now, that time has come: as of today, we’ve requested their removal. Spotify makes the process as opaque as possible, so we don’t have a definitive date for when they will disappear, but it is imminent.So, where can you find us once we’re off Spotify?Where are we putting our brand new season of Mockery Manor?Are we making sure there’s always a free way to listen to…
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S4 · 24 Feb 2026 · 1 min
Season 4 Teaser - Wizzzard Cruises
Mockery Manor - Season 4.Coming soon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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7 Nov 2025 · 2 min
Important: Please stop using Spotify
Hello, Laurence & Lindsay here. We've got a big problem, and we need your help. If you're listening to this on Spotify, we're asking you to stop, and switch to another podcast player. As I'm sure most of you know, there's plenty of evidence that Spotify is a terrible company with a long history of exploiting and underpaying artists, but that's only part of why it's so bad. It's been reported that Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, has recently invested millions of Euros of your subscription fees in an AI weaponry company called Helsing. This company has developed an automated target identification…
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S3 · E23 · 5 Sep 2024 · 29 min
Introducing: Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica - Season 4
Magenta and Bernard are here to tell you about their OG podcast... Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica.Season 4 is releasing now, and it's very different to previous seasons, so if you've not listened in for a while, you might want to listen to this!Subscribe to Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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S3 · E22 · 26 Mar 2024 · 39 min
Mockery Manor meets... Midst!
We're delighted to be bringing you one of our long-time favourite audio dramas - the wild and wonderful science-fantasy-western Midst.But before that, we sat down with the show's three mysterious creators Xen, Sara and Matt, to have a good old chat about the making of both Midst and Mockery Manor! We've been fans of each others' shows from their very beginnings, and it was such a pleasure to finally meet them.A little about Midst:The small desert planet of Midst spins on the border between two halves of the cosmos: the dazzling Un and the mysterious Fold. Life is simple for most of the…
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