Pod To Pluto

In the very final episode of our story and with the entire population of the ‘United Kingdom of Pluto’ rioting on the streets; Jemima and Pod fly out to an old abandoned research station. A place where a previous engineer once left a lightbulb on five years ago. It is there that we will discover who is behind everything and manipulating this whole story. Because this is the moment Jemima’s whole life has been building up to! ...and surely her actions won’t doom everybody? Will they? We all thank you for listening to this series and we hope you enjoyed the story, it was a pleasure to make it for all of you. Also always feel to get in contact with us and tell us what you thought!

Having crashed upon the surface of Pluto, Jemima and Pod are shocked to discover that nothing happening on the planet is what they were expecting. Soon Jemima finds herself battling sudden fame, political upheaval and an entire country brainwashed by Saranex five. Pod meanwhile, is about to discover what happens when you are surplus to requirements. ...and then a mysterious character from Jemima’s past reappears. With pastry! Welcome to the penultimate episode our fullcast cinematic scifi comedy podcast audiodrama; about a space engineer and a sarcastic AI on a 4 billion mile trip to Pluto to go turn off a lightbulb. Starring Laura England as Jemima Belafonte and Wayne Russell as Pod. http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/pluto/

Join Jemima & Pod as they spend a long day waiting for ‘Pod Zero’ to arrive, in a production clearly not ghost-written by Samuel Beckett. So can our existential search for meaning in this world be summed up by a five billion mile journey to Pluto to go turn off a lightbulb? Or is this just another case of us all ‘passing the time’ together? Whatever happens, one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Pod Zero to come. Also... it better not kill us horribly when it arrives!

Somehow it’s the first day of spring in deep space and Pod is full of joy! Jemima however isn’t feeling the happiness and once she discovers the true reality of her engineering qualifications and the threat of a fresh cake from Janet appearing in the supply relay; she feels even worse. However she won’t have to worry about any of that soon, as she is about to face forcible eviction from the Pod! Along with her cardboard toolkit...

Welcome back to ‘Pod To Pluto’ our comedy scifi audiodrama about a lonely space engineer on her way to Pluto to go turn off a lightbulb. In the first episode of this new series, we find Jemima lazily dreaming of saving the entire galaxy from the evil Lightbulbians. Meanwhile, Pod has come up with a number of interesting ways to celebrate their third glorious year travelling across the solar system together. So they’ve decided to reboot things a little. Starting by redesigning the Pod, buying a little nanobot and in five seconds they’re going to install a new DLC voice pack! This isn’t going to end well, is it?

In deep space, it’s cold, empty and vast. Which means you’re also very unlikely to find any other spacecraft in the outer reaches of the solar system. After all, nobody ever travels this far out from Earth unless they’ve been forced to because of some unfortunate employment offer which they now regret. So the chances of finding another identical space-pod, this far in deep space and then being attacked by it? Well, they’re astronomical! I guess Jemima and Pod should feel lucky then. The current season of ‘Pod To Pluto’ our audio fiction scifi sitcom comes to an end with this explosive new episode. New episodes start again in late 2019

The story we’re about to tell, is set in the near future and is all about an intrepid, young, handsome, and heroic class 9 service Pod on a dangerous mission to the outer regions of the known galaxy and the only person with him is a dumb human called Jemma. Well, at least that’s how the story develops in the new award-winning novel that Pod has written (which may or may not be based on real life events) So if Pod is now keeping busy via his own literary pursuits, maybe Jemima can find a hobby all of her own? Knitting? Cooking? Boredom? These are all options…

A birthday comes but once a deep space solar cycle for Pod, who was born 23 years ago today! Pod still thinks it looks just as glistening and new as that moment when the Astro Dock Mid-Wifery team handed it to his mummy, who flicked it’s engage button while his father cut the umbilical matrix (it really was horrible what happened to his father). However, Jemima thinks Pod can’t celebrate a birthday, given that it’s nothing but a hulking, almost decrepit mass of pig iron with no soul and no appreciation of the human condition. But if that’s the case, why is everyone so keen to congratulate it today?

Things get pretty lonely when you’re two hundred thousand miles away from home. Especially when you’re spending the first of half a decade’s worth of ‘Christmas Eves’ alone with just your sarcastic shipboard AI for company (and a lot of desiccated coconut) So Jemima thinks that maybe explaining the Nativity to Pod will help it understand the holiday a little bit more. She was wrong. Very wrong…

In deep space; every day feels like a Tuesday for Jemima. That’s because Tuesdays; in all their wretched banal glory, always feel like the most awful of days. So perhaps Jemima should just lie back and talk to somebody about these deep-seated feelings? Would that help? Maybe the lights can be dimmed and some relaxing soft music played? She can start to relax and breathe deeply. Yes, this is much better; she’s starting to enjoy this now… And that’s when Pod starts talking about sex with her mother...

It’s time for Jemima to exercise her democratic franchise! However like most elections it’s a two horse race and neither are very tempting. Yet there is one policy that’s rather appealing to her. Johnny December is playing a very home front campaign. Unlike his opponent Hairy Jenny; he’s standing on a ticket of cutting spending by curbing unnecessary space exploration. Jemima feels like she could get behind that (considering she’s currently involved in some unnecessary space exploration) Her shipboard computer ‘Pod’ however, has other ideas...

Today is going to be the last day for Jemima working as a UK space engineer. Once she’s finished this final job on adult satellite hugemongouswowwows.com , she’s taking the engineering-pod back to ‘Command & Control’ for her leaving party. It’s going to be glorious. She’s going to make a funny yet poignant speech. People will cry and tell her that they’re going to miss her. She’ll be showered with gifts and then she’s going to Exeter with her boyfriend to start a new life! She’s forgotten to put any of this in her protocol diary, but that won’t matter; will it? Welcome to our new #scifi #comedy #audiodrama ‘Pod To Pluto’ and say hello to ‘Jemima Belafonte’ and her ‘Pod’ computer. As they try and keep each other company during their 4.67 billion mile trip to Pluto!