Today we're spotlighting What Wil Be Here?, a new sci-fi audio drama about living on doomed earth and building things anyway. This show is created and produced by Tal Minear, who makes Sidequesting!
In What Will Be Here?, five friends send a rocket to space with a collection of recordings on it that document the world’s decline, the stories they want to tell, and their efforts in building this rocket to get their message to the stars. They wonder what their world will have become by the time their message is listened to. What will be left of a planet that has destroyed itself? What will be left of the people who lived there? What will become of their stories? What will be here?
At its core, this show is about living and creating when things feel pointless. It's a story that came out of the pandemic, and the landscape in which this story was written and produced greatly influenced how it turned out. What Will Be Here? is set on earth 200 years in the future, where large-scale crises are fully normalized. But despite the bleak backdrop, this story is one of hope - of overcoming challenges, of making things that might be temporary, but also things that might be launched into space and continue on forever.
Find out more at whatwillbehere.crd.co, or follow the show at WhatWillBeHere on Twitter and Instagram.
This is episode 1, titled Go For Deploy. E1 TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/wwbhe1transcript
CREDITS:
- Jona Lune (they/them) - Jules.
- Sahar Iman (they/them) - Suri.
- Kathy Youssef (they/them) - Armani.
- Vico Ortiz (they/them) - Kei.
- John Y. Kamara (he/him) - Dane.
- This episode directed and Sound Designed by Tal Minear (they/them).
- Written by Brad Colbroock (they/them/he), Chandler Harrison (she/her), Cole Burkhardt (he/him), Di Reese (she/they), and Tal Minear (they/them).
- Intro and outro music by Benny James (she/they).
- Transcript by Caroline Mincks (they/them).