Right, so here’s the thing about Action Science Theatre—picture the breathless excitement of a 1940s radio serial, throw in enough actual science to make your physics teacher weep with joy, add voices so wonderfully ridiculous they’d make the Goons proud, and somehow craft it into exactly twenty minutes of gleeful madness.

Fifty episodes over five years of “what if we tried this absolutely bonkers idea?” Real science—proper particle accelerators and quantum mechanics—delivered by characters who sound like they’ve escaped from the world’s most ambitious amateur dramatics society.

(And yes, we absolutely recorded it in someone’s spare room with blankets hung everywhere like the world’s nerdiest fort.)

It proved you could make science accessible without dumbing it down, thrilling without being mindless, and funny without sacrificing intelligence. The audio equivalent of discovering your most intimidating professor moonlights as a stand-up comedian.

As we described it, “unquestionably the finest free online audio drama you can get without trying any others.”

I co-wrote, co-directed and performed in this podcast for 5 years. There are about 50 episodes.