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Top Fiction podcasts in South Africa

The most-followed fiction podcasts in the South African charts, updated daily.

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    Sherlock Holmes Short Stories NOISER · Drama Sherlock Holmes Short Stories narrated by Hugh Bonneville. A woman struck dead after hearing a haunting whistle. A series of child-like drawings scrawled throughout a country estate. A prize horse wandering the moors without an owner. To the regular observer, these are merely strange anomalies. But for the master det
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    Bear Hunt Goalhanger · Drama 350 British civilians are dead and Russia is responsible. Number 10 hits back as a hapless Prime Minister plays his hand in the age of regime decapitation. Bear Hunt is a technically rigorous action drama exploring the political manoeuvres, operational challenges and conflict expertise required to assassinate a head o
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    Jane Austen Stories NOISER · Drama Join Dame Julie Andrews as she reads Jane Austen's original, unabridged classics, brought to life with original music and immersive sound design. Season One begins with Julie's narration of the timeless Pride and Prejudice. Season Two sees her bring Austen's beloved Emma to life. Once a week, step into Austen's world:
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    The Sleepy Bookshelf Slumber Studios · Drama Fall asleep to classic works of fiction, adapted and narrated to help you relax. Each episode begins with a brief moment of relaxation followed by a quick summary of the prior episode. That way, you can fall asleep whenever you're ready and always stay caught up. Explore our abundant library of audiobooks. There is s
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    Sherlock & Co. Goalhanger · Drama My name is Dr. John Watson, once of the British Army Northumberland Fusilier Regiment, now a true crime podcaster based in Central London. I don't have much experience in criminology, so this is mostly a record of how I met possibly the most brilliant and bizarre person I have ever (and will ever) know. Join me as I do
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    Full Body Chills Audiochuck · Fiction With over 100 nightmares to explore YOU can start anywhere. So grab your headphones, turn down the lights, & join us October 1st for some Full Body Chills. Full Body Chills is produced, written, & read by humans (No Evil Doppelgängers, No AI). To submit YOUR story go to https://fullbodychillspodcast.com/submit/
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    The Archers BBC Radio 4 · Drama Contemporary drama in a rural setting.
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    The NoSleep Podcast Creative Reason Media · Science Fiction The NoSleep Podcast is a multi-award winning anthology series of original horror stories, with rich atmospheric music to enhance the frightening tales.
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    Night Falls: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast Sleepiest: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast · Fiction Welcome to Night Falls 🌕🦌 a sleep podcast of calming bedtime stories for adults. If your thoughts won’t settle and the night feels endless, this is where rest begins. Night Falls is a sleep podcast created to help you drift into peace through the gentle power of storytelling. With each soothing bedtime story, you’re i
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    The White Vault Fool and Scholar Productions · Drama Explore the far reaches of the world’s horrors in the audio drama podcast The White Vault. Follow the collected records of a repair team sent to Outpost Fristed in the vast white wastes of Svalbard and unravel what lies waiting in the ice below. This Fool and Scholar production is intended for mature audiences.
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    Midnight Radio iHeartPodcasts · Drama Starring five-time Academy Award®-nominee Ethan Hawke as “The Radio Man,” MIDNIGHT RADIO is a new, fantastical horror podcast. Created and written by Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill and produced by Under The Influence Productions, Crooked Highway and Mickey Schiff in collaboration with iHeartPodcasts. Told in rea
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    Die bankroof – ’n vervolgverhaal Maroela Media · Drama Die bankroof, geskryf deur Joe Kleinhans, speel af in Maraisburg, ʼn dorpie in die Suid-Kaap, waar ʼn ou bank oor ʼn naweek beroof word. Die roof herinner aan ʼn historiese tonnelroof en bring die gemeenskap in beroering, veral omdat miljoene én die inhoud van sluitkissies verdwyn. Kaptein Van Rooy, reeds oorlaai met onop
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    The Archers Omnibus BBC Radio 4 · Drama The week's events in Ambridge
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    Wolf 359 Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC · Science Fiction Life's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth. His only company on board the station are stern mission
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    Malevolent Harlan Guthrie · Drama Do not fear the dark, fear what darkness brings... Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness. Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of
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    Scary Horror Stories by Dr. NoSleep Dr. NoSleep Studios · Fiction Welcome to the realm of Dr. NoSleep® — home of diabolical horror stories, creepypastas, and original scary stories. This horror podcast features professional human narration, immersive sound design, and human-written horror fiction—no AI stories or voices. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1 PM EST
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    Limelight BBC Radio 4 · Drama The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
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    We're Alive Wayland Productions Inc · Drama We're Alive is an award-winning audio drama that follows a group of Survivors in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles now ruled by the "Infected." It begins with “A Story of Survival” which spans from Chapters 1-48. Our survivors band together, fortify a safe haven known as the Tower, and discover that the Infected are far f
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    Midnight Burger Business Goose Media · Comedy Fiction When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with it's staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient
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    Mockery Manor Long Cat Media · Comedy Fiction Summer, 1989, somewhere in deepest darkest England. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it's up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer. British Podcast Awards 'Best Fiction' Nominee 2020. If you like Widow's Bay, Hot Fuzz, and Only Murders In The Building, then Mockery Manor is for y
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    Sports Horn Stak · Comedy Fiction Sports Horn – it’s the UK’s third most talked about sports radio network! Join ex-footballer and current pundit Ian Fiveankles with co-host Anthony Richardson as they tackle the biggest sporting stories in their brand new breakfast show, only on SPORTS HORN. Dishing out the sort of insight one can only acquire from p
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    Six Minutes GZM Shows · Drama Discover the most downloaded family audio drama in history. Eleven-year-old Holiday is pulled from the icy waters of Alaska with no memory of who she is or where she comes from. And when she begins to develop incredible abilities, she’ll soon learn she’s not alone in the world. From Peabody Award-winning Gen-Z Media
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    The Haunted Library BBC Studios · Drama This library is home to curious things. Strange tales. Unanswered questions. Stories that linger longer than they should. Hosted by Colin Morgan (Merlin, Belfast) with guest host Katie Leung (Harry Potter, Bridgerton), The Haunted Library invites you deep into the stacks to hear works of classic horror brought to life
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    Welcome to Night Vale Night Vale Presents · Science Fiction Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time. Or, go right to Episode 1 if you wanna binge-listen.
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    The SCP Experience Dr. NoSleep Studios · Science Fiction The SCP Experience™ is an immersive science fiction podcast set in the SCP Foundation universe, adapting classified containment files, anomalous technologies, and forbidden research through cinematic human narration and atmospheric sound design. No AI stories or voices. Each episode explores speculative science, ethic
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    Case 63 Spotify Studios · Fiction CASE 63 IS OUT NOW Season Two of Case 63 transports us back to 2012 where Eliza Beatrix Knight wakes confused and naked in a bathroom at JFK airport, having failed her mission. Taken to a hospital, she is treated by Dr. Vincent Caldwell - a resident psychiatrist with a familiar voice. Beatrix is now Case 63. With the
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    The Left Right Game QCODE · Science Fiction Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Right Game. The journey takes her into a supernatural world that she and the other members of the expedition can neither han
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    Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast Chilling Entertainment · Drama Horror Hill is a horror fiction podcast, spun off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show stars voice actor Erik Peabody as both host and narrator, and features the hand-picked work of hundreds of talented authors. You haven't found the darkness. The darkness has f
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    Tower 4 Bloody FM · Drama Mike Archer is a newly appointed fire watcher in the Wyoming woods. While he's never done anything like this before, he needed something new after his mom passed. Now he hopes to spend his days in a tower above the trees looking for fires and working on his new book. But things aren't as quiet and peaceful as he hoped.
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    Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast Chilling Entertainment · Drama Chilling Tales for Dark Nights is a twice-weekly horror fiction anthology podcast, with each episode featuring creepy tales from talented authors, brought to life by professional voice actors, accompanied by sound effects and music. Turn off the lights, and turn on the dark.
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    Wilder Dreams Storybutton and Mr. Jim · Drama Discover the heartwarming and dramatic family podcast, "Wilder Dreams," where the themes of resilience, family bonds, and self-discovery come alive through captivating storytelling. Following the tragic loss of their eldest son, Bailey and her family are forced to navigate their grief and find new dreams for their futu
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    The Sleepy Bookshelf: Just Jane Slumber Studios · Fiction Fall asleep to Jane Austen. From the team behind top fiction podcast The Sleepy Bookshelf comes The Sleepy Bookshelf: Just Jane, where acclaimed narrator Elizabeth Grace reads Austen’s complete works aloud, one chapter at a time, as you drift off. Don’t worry if you miss the ending - we’ll catch you up next time.
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    Fox Podcasts Tony Holland-Martin · Drama Classic Radio Drama and Comedy foryour entertainment. In addition there is a fundraiser for my cause,I am an RAF Veteran who lost my leg recently and need help. Please click on the QR code for my Gofundme page. Thank You.
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    Bloodrock Springs Mark R. Healy · Science Fiction Mark R. Healy (The Strata, The Road of Shadows) returns with an exciting new audio drama. Bloodrock Springs is an engrossing thrill-ride for the listener, full of mystery, horror, suspense and a good dash of Aussie humour as well. After an ominous cloud of dust surrounds a small outback town, the group of residents who
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    True Horror Stories True Horror Stories · Drama Welcome to Horror Stories, your ultimate destination for chilling narratives, paranormal encounters, and spine-tingling mysteries. At Horror Stories, we delve deep into the unknown, bringing you terrifying tales that will haunt your imagination. Whether it's supernatural hauntings, eerie urban legends, or unsettling re
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    Academy Audible | AT WILL MEDIA · Fiction Welcome to Bishop Gray Academy, a world of high-stakes and cut-throat competition. Academy, a riveting coming-of-age audio drama co-produced by AT WILL MEDIA and Wondery, follows the story of Ava Richards, a scholarship student who transfers to Bishop Gray, one of the most elite and competitive boarding schools in Ame
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    The Dark Somnium Bloody FM · Fiction Welcome to The Dark Somnium. Scary Story, Creepypasta and Nosleep narrations with Original music and sound design.
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    Station 151 Pale Matter | Realm · Science Fiction Station 151 is Antarctica’s first and only astronomical radio observatory. Built by the Telders Corporation at an estimated cost of $200M USD, the station promises to reveal the darkest secrets of the universe. Join Astrophysicist Wayne Robertson at the bottom of the world as he sets off on the adventure of a lifetime
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    Drama of the Week BBC Radio 4 · Drama Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.
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    The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings Bloody FM · Drama Step into a mysterious shop, where every relic has a sordid tale to tell. A weekly multi-award winning full cast horror anthology featuring Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel, David Dastmalchian, Devon Sawa, Jocelin Donahue and more. Contact The Antiquarium at (646) 481-7197 or antiquariumshop@gmail.com. Explore our unsought g
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    The Strata Mark R. Healy · Science Fiction In a dystopian city, an ageing courier is forced to go into business with an underworld ganglord in order to pay for the treatment that keeps him alive.
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    MSA My Story Animated · Fiction Interesting and life changing stories for young and young minded people.
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    Wrong Station The Wrong Station · Drama Wrong Station is an award-winning podcast anthology of original horror and weird fiction. Drawing on the tradition of The Twilight Zone and the classic radio serials that inspired it, Wrong Station transports the listener into the darkest corners of appalling new worlds with each episode. Wrong Station is not suitable
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    The Harbingers Audacious Machine Creative · Fiction Adam Blackwell and Amy Stirling met as graduate students in anthropology, both obsessed with studying the same dead language and long-lost culture. Their relationship was always... complicated. They were bitter rivals, ideological opposites, and even went out on a date once - though they’d really prefer if everyone for
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    True Scary Stories Creator at Obomedia · Science Fiction Dare to listen? True Scary Stories brings you face-to-face with the chilling unknown, where every shadow holds a secret and every whisper could be real. Prepare for a daily dose of genuine terror as we delve into bone-chilling tales of the supernatural, unexplained phenomena, and terrifying encounters that defy logic.
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    The Royals of Malibu Emerald Audio · Fiction Ella Sinclair (Alyssa McKay) is a survivor. She's fierce, brave, and jaded. She finds herself a teenage orphan trying to stay afloat and finish high school on her own. Enter The Royals. Through circumstances Ella can barely believe, wealthy father-of-two sons, Callum Royal, plucks Ella out of poverty and welcomes her i
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    Drew Blood's Dark Tales — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast Chilling Entertainment · Drama Veteran voice actor Drew Blood hails straight from the heart of the American South, and he's got a tale to tell. With immersive, full-production, and an indelible flavor all his own, you'll hear the finest horror in captivating fashion. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. 
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    Jordan B Peterson Jordan B Peterson · Fiction Jordan B Peterson's Podcast
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    Canada by Night a Vampire the Masquerade Podcast Dumb-Dumbs & Dice · Comedy Fiction Canada by Night is a live-play podcast where professional improvisers play Vampire the Masquerade! Sent to rescue his best friend’s kidnapped mother, detective-turned-vampire Everett Fry accidentally ends up the sheriff of New Haven: an experimental town that’s finding out if vampires and humans can co-exist. Stuck lea
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    Swords Against Madness Brian C. Rideout · Science Fiction A Weird Fantasy Old-School Solo Role-Playing Game

Podcasts and radio, side by side

South African podcasting grew straight out of radio: many of the shows in this chart are hosted by broadcasters you will also find on our talk radio pages, and several are cut from live shows. If you want something on now rather than on demand, the live station directory is a better starting point.

Chart data comes from the South African Apple Podcasts charts. Episodes play from each show's own public RSS feed — we do not host podcast audio.

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