Strada Drama Podcast
A series of original productions for audio from acclaimed performimg arts group: Strada Drama
Episodes
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
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 ...
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...
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 o...
Strada Drama: A NIGHT IN
Ireland – in a small location named Braniel on the south-east corner of Belfast - during the Covid pandemic.
Married couple (Irish) Liam Flanagan and his English wife Beccy, are in mid-disagreement about dinner, amongst several other things. 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...
Strada Drama: THE FUNERAL
A slightly camp funeral director/undertaker sits with a lower-working class Glasgow husband and his aspirational wife (who has delusions of a middle class existence) at the dining table of their home. The husband has a gruff, working-class Glasgow accent. The wife's father has passed away and the three are gathered together to discuss the arrangements.
NOEL FRANSON as The Undertaker
MAGGIE JOYCE as The W...
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
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
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 be...
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
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
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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