Podcasts by The Otto Loser Mysteries
A series of audiobooks celebrating the mysterious fate of Otto Loser
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Anton‘s Bark - Sixteen from 2022-04-22T05:00
This is the final episode of Anton’s Bark. It begins with Otto’s reading of Chapter Fourteen of Otto in Flames. The fourteenth chapter of Anton’s novel produces the miraculous ending the writer ...
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Anton‘s Bark - Fifteen from 2022-04-15T05:00
In an echo of the time Anton followed Urania through his own town at the beginning of the real Otto’s telling Anton’s Bark, Chapter Thirteen has the fictitious Otto following Marie down a street...
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Anton‘s Bark - Fourteen from 2022-04-08T05:00
Ever since 1999 Otto has known that by one-minute after midnight, on 19 February, 2019, his estranged wife Marie, would be with him in his hotel room. And in Anton’s mysteriously unfolding novel...
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Anton‘s Bark - Thirteen from 2022-04-01T05:00
Otto’s reading of Chapter Eleven has him recounting how his fictitious self comes face to face with a ferocious dog. His premonition, that he would be attacked by such a dog, within twenty-four...
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Anton‘s Bark - Twelve from 2022-03-25T04:00
Chapter Ten embroils Otto even further into the unforeseen, during his second day in Vienna. By early evening he is ready to meet Marie again, and take her out on a date. His plan is to rescue t...
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Anton‘s Bark - Eleven from 2022-03-18T04:00
Despite the entanglement of its erstwhile writer, now trapped deep in the cave, Otto in Flames has taken on a momentum of its own. Today, the real Otto reads Chapter Nine for us. This chapter fo...
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Anton‘s Bark - Ten from 2022-03-11T05:00
The mystery of Chapter Eight is that the writer is no longer in a condition to be able to write it. Yet despite his condition, Anton is still able to imagine it. Even as far as the real Otto is ...
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Anton‘s Bark - Nine from 2022-03-04T05:00
Today, Otto reads Chapter Seven for us. This is the last chapter Anton had been writing before he disappeared altogether. In this chapter the fictional Otto remains amorphous, somewhere in his m...
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Anton‘s Bark - Eight from 2022-02-25T05:00
Otto’s reading of Chapter Six features his surprise meeting with Father Promentano at the Spitzenhof café. He’d been expecting to meet Marie there. He’d had a clear premonition of that meeting. ...
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Anton‘s Bark - Seven from 2022-02-18T05:00
This episode begins with the real Otto’s reading of Chapter Five. It is a pivotal chapter in Anton’s novel where, after waking up from a nightmare in his hotel room in Vienna, the fictional Otto...
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Anton‘s Bark - Six from 2022-02-11T05:00
Otto describes the words and phrases that occur to Anton, as he sits in his favourite café, trying to re-write Chapter Five of his novel. Things go well for a time. And although the real Otto wo...
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Anton‘s Bark - Five from 2022-02-04T05:00
The real Otto admits that being a character in Anton’s novels has had him going around in circles. He’s unhappy about it, but there’s no obvious way for him to avoid what he is. He explains that...
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Anton‘s Bark - Four from 2022-01-28T05:00
Anton’s abilities as a writer have by now foundered. He is so confounded by what he is imagining, that it becomes necessary to redraft what he has written, in order to accommodate the visions be...
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Anton‘s Bark - Three from 2022-01-21T05:00
It is confirmed by the real Otto that as the muse Urania works her magic on him, Anton loses control of his novel. Her inspirations provoke Anton’s imagination in such a way as to make it imposs...
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Anton‘s Bark - Two from 2022-01-14T05:00
Otto in Flames is being read to us by the real Otto Loser. Chapter One is about the dream he is meant to have been born in. The action begins in the UK, during the early hours of 17 February, 20...
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Anton‘s Bark - One from 2022-01-07T05:00
Welcome to the third series in the Otto Loser Mysteries podcast. This is the first Otto Loser Mystery to be told by Otto himself. From the outset Otto’s position is that he is able to speak inde...
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Anton's Bark - Trailer from 2021-05-30T05:00
This is a trailer for Anton’s Bark, the third and final audiobook in the Otto Loser Mysteries series. Anton’s Bark will be available to download from early January, 2022. The first two audiobook...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Twenty-One from 2021-05-28T05:00
This is the final episode of The Scarlet Godwins, and the second of Marley’s unsent letters. In it she is still waiting for Otto’s second coming. She had been expecting him to come back sooner. ...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Twenty from 2021-05-21T05:00
Marley recounts the story of Otto’s first prison visit, with Izzy by his side, posing as his assistant. But Marley is too perceptive not to have noticed that there was more to her solicitor and ...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Nineteen from 2021-05-14T05:00
This is the first of Marley’s unsent letters, where the twisted truth begins to come out. It begins by telling Otto of his prison visits, as they had been foretold. On the first of these, Marley...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Eighteen from 2021-05-07T05:00
Marley prepares for Otto’s first prison visit, something she found out about through a ‘little birdie’. The trouble with corresponding with your solicitor from a prison cell, she is ever at pain...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Seventeen from 2021-04-30T05:00
In this rant of a letter, Marley, furious at Otto for challenging her credibility, remonstrates with him freely, before she discloses more scientific facts about her body, explains why she lied ...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Sixteen from 2021-04-23T05:00
Otto releases Marley from her vow. At this she goes into over-drive. In her sixteenth letter she uses every foul word she can think of. She explains that because her letters are being vetted she...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Fifteen from 2021-04-16T05:00
Marley is feeling fobbed off. She accuses Otto of ignoring her, not writing back, and not coming to visit. When she’s satisfied she’s made her point, she takes up the story of meeting Charlottes...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Fourteen from 2021-04-09T05:00
Marley’s response to a second letter from Otto, asking for Louise’s full name, takes many turns. For a while, she’d been asking Otto to release her from her vow not to swear. She berates him for...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Thirteen from 2021-04-02T05:00
In this letter, Marley thanks the Lord that Otto has finally become her solicitor. She starts by letting him know who her former solicitors were, so he can obtain her papers. Lingering on the be...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Twelve from 2021-03-26T04:00
Marley prays for the strength to tell Otto all she knows. She laments the fact that she made a vow not to use foul language; she could have made use of a few choice words. In this letter she man...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Eleven from 2021-03-19T04:00
Marley writes a confessional letter explaining that her relationship with Charlotte was descending into alcoholism. On determining that Charlotte was mentally unwell, she tells how she followed ...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Ten from 2021-03-12T05:00
Marley continues with her version of how it came about that the twins should introduce her to Charlotte's family dressed the same, in scarlet frocks. She develops the theme of Charlotte's stalke...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Nine from 2021-03-05T05:00
In this pivotal episode, Marley's letter covers the period immediately after she first meets her sister, when she spots the tall person lurking in the street, she comes to regard as 'the beansta...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Eight from 2021-02-26T05:00
In this episode Marley's letter reveals how she found and finally made contact with Charlotte Godwin. Meanwhile, Otto is walking along the seashore, thinking about the time in Charlotte's life w...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Seven from 2021-02-19T05:00
In her seventh letter, Marley discusses her relationship with the Almighty. She speaks angrily of the abuse she suffered as a child. She reveals her stormy relationship with a Greek financier, a...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Six from 2021-02-12T05:00
Between the accounts of her many escapades and claims, Marley tries to explain why she needed to escape from hospital, despite the bonus of free food and board; and how she set about looking for...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Five from 2021-02-05T05:00
Long before she met her 'cleverer sister', Marley was called Jenny. In this episode not only does Marley claim that Jenny died of a drugs overdose and was resurrected, but she tells the story of...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Four from 2021-01-29T05:00
A packed episode in which Marley elaborates on a number of remarkable assertions, including the claim that drugs no longer have any psychoactive effects on her. She discusses a game of no-blinki...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Three from 2021-01-22T05:00
Marley's third letter is about loss, and how her worldview was shattered when she found out, aged sixteen, that the Albert Square she'd been looking for, never existed. Otto's contemplative walk...
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The Scarlet Godwins - Two from 2021-01-15T05:00
In her second letter to Otto, Marley begins to discuss the shadier politics of being a prisoner, and reminisces nostalgically about her days as a child on the run. In the dialogue Otto is having...
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The Scarlet Godwins - One from 2021-01-08T05:00
Marley is in prison, serving a life-sentence for the murder of her sister, Charlotte. Each of the following weekly episodes sets out Marley's letters to her solicitor, Otto Loser. For Otto, the ...
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Something Borsuk Said - Twenty-Six&Postscript from 2020-09-11T05:00
This is the final episode of this audiobook, followed by a postscript, written by Otto to his estranged wife. Thanks to all who have listened. There's more to come. The Otto Loser Mysteries cont...
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Something Borsuk Said - Twenty-Five from 2020-09-04T05:00
In this penultimate episode, Otto goes to the police station to advise the only suspect to be arrested in the Jamie Heller case.
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Something Borsuk Said - Twenty-Four from 2020-08-28T05:00
No longer quite himself, Otto Loser returns to work. Following the arrest of a murder suspect, he is called out to the Police Station. As the episode continues, it is day three of Jamie Heller's...
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Something Borsuk Said - Twenty-Three from 2020-08-21T05:00
In Episode Twenty-Three, the police swoop in to make an arrest. Meanwhile, awake, half-dead, he doesn't know where, Jamie's soul is mired in guilt.
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Something Borsuk Said - Twenty-Two from 2020-08-14T05:00
While Barry is becoming a topic for rumour and folklore, a dark presence on the moor, Theresa is having to cope with all her worst nightmares.
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Something Borsuk Said - Twenty-One from 2020-08-07T05:00
A police investigation gets underway. Meanwhile, Otto Loser is discharged from hospital, and returns home in a strange mood.
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Something Borsuk Said - Twenty from 2020-07-31T05:00
During the first long day of waiting, both Theresa Heller and Anya are forced to contemplate the most agonizing scenarios.
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Something Borsuk Said - Nineteen from 2020-07-24T05:00
It's the Mayday Fair and everything happens at once, before disaster suddenly strikes. The episode continues with Otto Loser's hospital torpor, worsened by a visit from his smarmy employer.
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Something Borsuk Said - Eighteen from 2020-07-17T05:00
A visit from the police among others awaits Otto Loser, as he recovers in hospital. Meanwhile, Theresa Heller throws herself headlong into the final preparations for the Mayday Fair.
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Something Borsuk Said - Seventeen from 2020-07-10T05:00
In which the mysterious man finds out where he is, who he is and what he is.
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Something Borsuk Said - Sixteen from 2020-07-03T05:00
A serious discussion about Willy Borsuk takes place, which is followed by a hospital visit.
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Something Borsuk Said - Fifteen from 2020-06-26T05:00
In which the mysterious man loses the boy as he comes under attack.
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Something Borsuk Said - Fourteen from 2020-06-19T05:00
Deep into the night, the mysterious man has a conversation with the boy, at gunpoint. By the end of this episode Barry Heller is calling himself Alice, as he makes his way from Bristol to Dartmo...
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Something Borsuk Said - Thirteen from 2020-06-12T16:49:53
Arriving at the boy's camp near the lake, the mysterious man helps himself to food and beer and decides to have a nap. At the same time, Theresa invites Rodney Figgar over for a meal, during whi...
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Something Borsuk Said - Twelve from 2020-06-05T05:00
The mysterious man goes swimming in a lake with the boy. It's pleasant, but his fear of others soon takes hold. Meanwhile, Anya makes a new friend, but their friendship is disrupted by the same ...
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Something Borsuk Said - Eleven from 2020-05-29T05:00
The mysterious man goes looking for the boy who helped him, and finds him by a lake. In the world of the Heller family, Jamie befriends a giant out walking on the moor.
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Something Borsuk Said - Ten from 2020-05-22T05:00
In which the mysterious man, now on his last legs, is rescued by a boy he meets on the way down the mountain. The episode continues with Barry Heller removing himself from psychiatric care, pref...
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Something Borsuk Said - Nine from 2020-05-15T05:00
In his own way, Jamie apologizes to Anya for blowing up her bear. In her own way, Anya accepts his apology; while Rodney Figgar continues to ingratiate himself with Theresa. The episode continue...
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Something Borsuk Said - Eight from 2020-05-08T07:06:37
In which Barry has a setback in a psychiatric unit. And, after a long day in the wilderness, the mysterious man recalls a few important and tantalizing details about his life.
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Something Borsuk Said - Seven from 2020-05-01T01:45:04
While the Heller family struggles with their new reality, this episode is concerned with the mysterious man, who climbs to the top of a mountain, where there is a surprises in store for him.
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Something Borsuk Said - Six from 2020-04-24T06:08:44
Still climbing through an unknown landscape, the mysterious man discovers the depths of his desperation in a new food source. Meanwhile, Jamie embarks on a deadly mission.
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Something Borsuk Said - Five from 2020-04-17T05:50:42
In which the mysterious man in the woods displays healthy signs of paranoia, as he climbs higher. Back in London, the Heller family is faced with the unthinkable.
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Something Borsuk Said - Four from 2020-04-10T06:49:28
In Episode Four the man in the woods tries to determine who he is by means of deduction. He discovers a stream as he walks up the slopes of a mountain. Meanwhile, following a blow-out with his ...
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Something Borsuk Said - Three from 2020-04-03T14:30:09
In Chapter Three a man wakes up in the woods. He has no idea who he is, or why he's wearing a suit and tie. The episode continues with Chapter Four, where more tensions and raw nerves are expose...
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Something Borsuk Said - Two from 2020-03-27T08:32:21
In which the torments of Barry Heller are exposed while running a London half-marathon.
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Something Borsuk Said - One from 2020-03-20T10:42:30
This episode introduces Theresa Heller and the circumstances of her life in London, during the Spring of 2016.
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