Claybourne

Bigby is keen to close the case. Natural causes would save everyone a lot of paperwork and a lot of trouble. Not everyone is convinced, and the evidence has a habit of rearranging itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Someone is making phone calls in voices that don't belong to them. Edith's shop becomes a clearing house for confusion and suspicion. The town DJ muses on the nature of trust over the airwaves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Karen's past catches a signal through the static. A phone call from the life she fled reminds her that distance is not the same as safety. In a town this small, secrets travel at the speed of gossip. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A trip to the morgue raises more questions than it settles. The cause of death doesn't quite fit, and the dead woman's personal effects tell a story her employers would prefer stayed buried. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The satellite station's power fluctuates in ways the manual doesn't cover. Lights flicker in the hotel. Somewhere in the circuitry, something is listening, learning, and beginning to play. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Constable Bigby arrives from Kawakawa to ask questions about the body on the beach. His investigation is thorough in some places and conspicuously shallow in others. Someone in town is already managing the narrative. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mata sees something in the stranger that the prophecy foretold. Queenie, the iwi matriarch, watches from the shore. Recognition is not always a welcome thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The dead woman has a name, a history, and a connection to the satellite station that nobody at Koestler wants to talk about. Thompson starts asking questions. The answers don't match. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Karen finds a body washed up on the beach below the satellite station. The town's morning routine shatters. Thompson is beginning to suspect that the "problem" Koestler Industries sent him to fix is considerably worse than a faulty dish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thompson's rental breaks down on a back road, and a seventeen-year-old mechanic named Mike is the only help for miles. In a town with a satellite station on the hill and no mobile signal, isolation takes on a new meaning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The locals seem friendly enough, but Mata, the town's priest, has a quiet word with the newcomer. Something in Te Irirangi doesn't want Thompson here, and something else very much does. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An American on holiday receives a fax from his employers about a "problem" at a remote satellite station in New Zealand's far north. Thompson drives into the coastal town of Te Irirangi expecting a routine fix. The town has other plans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The trailer for Claybourne. A 96-episode audio drama originally broadcast on Newstalk ZB in 1998, winner of Best Drama at the 1999 New Zealand Radio Awards. Remastered for 2026. New episodes Monday to Thursday from 1st June. claybourne.nz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.