Eddie Cross is a professional poker player on a losing streak — until a black-market implant lets him read every mind at the table. When the score of his life finally comes around against the one player he's never beaten, Eddie is certain he can see him coming. He's wrong about who's really doing the reading. A standalone noir tale from the Machine Age Radio Theatre.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

David Mercer talks to his self-driving car the way lonely people talk to a dog. Then an overnight update powered by a new AI model decides that the one thing it wants is to care for him. A standalone near-future tale from the Machine Age Radio Theatre.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

A bonus episode about the show itself: how Machine Age Radio Theatre actually gets made — the writing, the casting auditions, directing AI voices for emotion, the music and sound design — narrated in the host's own voice instead of the show's usual AI announcer. The title's a nod to The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" — fifty years on, it's a different technology's turn to remake the medium.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

The blast fades and the CSS Vigilant crew wakes to find out what survived — their ship, each other, and half of Admiral Thorne's reserve fleet. Vasquez reveals the five-day plan she never fully explained. The season finale closes on the line the Vigilant held, and the crew who held it together.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

CSS Vigilant — a seven-part space-war serial about one destroyer left to hold a shipping lane after the fleet withdraws. Machine Age Radio Theatre is original science-fiction radio drama, assembled by machine, in the tradition of X Minus One. New episodes are live now.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound : a deliberate experiment in bringing back the sound of golden-age radio drama. Regular episodes include a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring, a secret-message app by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

Ascendancy boarders are inside Vigilant's hull and the trap is still unsprung.  Anand holds the junction, Farrow buys seconds, and Vasquez waits for the enemy's own aggression to pull all ten reserve ships into the killing radius — knowing the detonation that ends Thorne's fleet may end her ship with it.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

Vasquez wakes, reads the wreck of the situation in minutes, and lays out a plan the whole crew privately thinks is suicide: play dead, and let the enemy fleet come in close enough to finish the job. The trap is set. Whether it closes in time is another question.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

With no relief coming, Vasquez pushes a hard forward maneuver to buy time and pays for it. Command passes to Commander Reyne, who has to hold a frightened crew together and make the next call alone, while Thorne senses the opening he's been waiting for.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

There is a saboteur aboard Vigilant and the hunt for them strains every relationship on the ship. Vasquez handles it her own way — quiet, exact, and telling. Meanwhile Farrow pulls a transmission out of the noise that changes what holding the line is going to cost. 

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

Vasquez turns the debris field itself into a weapon, funnelling the enemy vanguard into a killing lane — the crew's first real victory, and a costly one. Admiral Thorne absorbs the loss without blinking and adjusts. Then engineering finds something in the reactor damage that has no business being there.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354

The war for the Corvus Strait comes down to one navigable corridor of open space: hold it and you control resupply, reinforcement, the whole war. When the Meridian Concord fleet is ordered to withdraw, a single aging destroyer — CSS Vigilant  is left behind to hold the line until relief arrives. Captain Elena Vasquez takes the measure of her crew, the odds, and the man being sent to break them.

Machine Age Radio Theatre is made entirely with AI-generated voices, music, and sound. This episode includes a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring : a secret-message app that encodes and decodes messages sent through your other messaging apps, made by the same person who makes this show : https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769765354