The Complete Archive · 2014 — Present
Seven seasons, treated as chapters of a continuing body of audio fiction.
Every season is a finished work in itself — its own cast, its own cartography, its own silences — and together they form a library you can enter at any point. Begin with the current season, or wander backward to where the studio first began.
Chapter Index
The complete season catalogue.
Every season in the RadioTrama archive, ordered most recent first. Each entry opens a self-contained body of work — opening episode, finale, and the slow middle passages in between.
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Chapter VII 07
The Cartographer's Daughter
Season Seven · 2024 — Present
A nine-episode serial following a young surveyor through the unmarked borderlands of memory and weather, recorded across Portugal and Galicia with a thirteen-voice ensemble.
- Episodes
- 9
- Runtime
- 6h 42m
- Language
- English
- Status
- Airing
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Chapter VI 06
A Quiet Frequency
Season Six · 2023
Twelve short, self-contained fictions built around the same coastal radio station — a small-town transmitter that begins receiving transmissions from a future it has not yet lived.
- Episodes
- 12
- Runtime
- 8h 15m
- Language
- English
- Status
- Complete
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Chapter V 05
Hôtel des Roses Brûlées
Season Five · 2022
A bilingual French–Portuguese production about a closing-season hotel in the Pyrenees and the eleven guests who refuse to leave. Ten episodes, recorded across Toulouse and the Algarve.
- Episodes
- 10
- Runtime
- 7h 28m
- Language
- French / Portuguese
- Status
- Complete
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Chapter IV 04
The Bellwether Protocol
Season Four · 2021
A near-future procedural in eight parts, set inside a civilian weather bureau that begins to receive forecasts for events that have not yet been scheduled. Featured in the 2021 Peabody Digital Media Showcase for community-driven storytelling.
- Episodes
- 8
- Runtime
- 5h 51m
- Language
- English
- Status
- Complete
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Chapter III 03
Carta Marítima
Season Three · 2020
An episodic Portuguese-language anthology built from letters washed ashore on the Atlantic coast — twenty-two short fictions, each scored to a different local field recording.
- Episodes
- 22
- Runtime
- 9h 04m
- Language
- Portuguese
- Status
- Complete
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Chapter II 02
The Inheritance
Season Two · 2018
Fourteen episodes following a family of Catalan luthiers across three generations, recorded with original period instruments and a sound design drawn entirely from the workshop itself.
- Episodes
- 14
- Runtime
- 11h 36m
- Language
- Spanish
- Status
- Complete
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Chapter I 01
Nocturnes for a Missing City
Season One · 2014 — 2017
The studio's debut work — three years of production, twenty-six episodes, and the field-recording library that became the foundation of every season that followed. Founded in Lisbon, November 2014.
- Episodes
- 26
- Runtime
- 18h 22m
- Language
- English
- Status
- Complete
A cumulative 67 hours of finished audio drama across all seven seasons, including 28 industry honours since the studio's founding.
Now Airing · Begin Here
The Cartographer's Daughter
Season Seven · Nine episodes · English-language production · Recording across northern Portugal and Galicia
A young surveyor inherits her late father's commission to remap a coastline no longer where it used to be. As she walks the boundary stones inland, the land begins to answer back.
- Writer
- Sofia Carneiro & Ensemble
- Director
- Mira Albuquerque
- Sound Design
- Inês Faro
- Ensemble
- 13 voice actors · 3 languages
- Production cycle
- 11 weeks per episode
A 2023 Prix Europa nominee for Best European Radio Fiction, now in its first full season of release.
A Note From The Studio
How to approach the archive.
Standing at the edge of a 140-episode catalogue can feel like standing at the edge of a foreign library. There is no wrong door, but the order you walk through changes what you hear.
Sequential, if you can. Each season is written to be heard in order — the ensemble voices settle in the first three episodes and the architecture of the world is built slowly. New listeners often begin with The Cartographer's Daughter, the current season, and work backward.
Thematically, if a season's premise catches you first. Hôtel des Roses Brûlées is bilingual and meditative; Carta Marítima is short, episodic, and tide-driven; The Bellwether Protocol is procedural and quiet. Pick the one that fits the hour you have.
By season, if you came for a specific writer. Every season page lists its full cast, credits, and production notes — the writers' room methodology has been taught at nine universities since 2019, and several ensemble members have returned across multiple seasons.
— The RadioTrama Studio · Lisbon
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