Crime stories from the Indian Sub-Continent. A curated series of audio fiction podcasts from award-winning creators Ayeesha Menon and John Scott Dryden recorded on the streets of Mumbai, India. Each season is released in one drop and all episodes are ad-free.

Sales assistant, Sapna Sinha, is offered a chance to change her life. All she has to do is pass seven tests.

From Vikas Swarup’s best-selling novel “The Accidental Apprentice”.

Season 3:

The Seventh Test

Cast:

Sapna – Rasika Dugal
Acharya – Vijay Chrishna
Karan – Neil Bhoopalam
Nirmila Ben / Rosie – Radhika Mital
Sapna’s Mother – Shernaz Patel
Raja – Sumeet Vyas
Kuldeep Singh / Roaji – Rajit Kapur
Neha – Amrita Puri
Priya Capoor / Pushpa / Female Judge – Ayesha Raza
Badan Singh / Politician / Constable – Kenny Desai
Madan – Vivek Madan
Neelam / Babli – Prerna Chawla
Rent Collector – Satchit Puranik

Production:

Sound Design - Steve Bond
Editing Assistant – Varun Bangera
Script Editor - Mike Walker
Assistant Producer - Toral Shah
Producer - Nadir Khan
Music - Sacha Putnam
Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Scott Dryden from the novel “ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE” by Vikas Swarup
Director - John Scott Dryden

This police thriller follows Alia Khan, a young inspector in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a male dominated and chauvinistic police force.

Season 2:

Undercover City

Cast:

Alia - Prerna Chawla
Nakul - Anand Tiwari
Inspector Desai - Rajit Kapur
Mrs Gomes - Radhika Mittal
Popo - Rohit Malkani
Alia’s father - Zafar Karachiwala
Vikram Naresh – Darius Shroff
Commissioner Kripalani - Jayant Kripalani

Production:

Sound Recordist - Hitesh Chaurasia
Sound Design - Steve Bond
Editing Assistants - Andrew Lewis & Aditya Khanna.
Script Editor - Mike Walker
Assistant Producer - Toral Shah
Producer - Nadir Khan
Music - Sacha Putnam
Writer - Ayeesha Menon
Director - John Scott Dryden

Season 1:

Q & A

Street kid Thomas wins Indian gameshow “Who Will Win A Billion” - scooping the billion-rupee prize on live TV. But not everyone is convinced he did it on his own... An immersive ten-part thriller starring Anand Tiwari, based on the best-selling novel by Vikas Swarup. The story that inspired the Oscar winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire”.

Cast:

Thomas – Anand Tiwari
Prem Kumar – Sohrab Ardeshir
Father Francis – Henry Goodman
Young Thomas – Caran Arora
Father John – Rajit Kapur
Shantaram – Kenneth Desai
Mrs Shantaram – Ayeesha Menon
Gudiya – Pooja Ruparel
Salim – Nadir Khan
Young Salim – Armaan Malik
Babu – Vikrant Chaturvedi
Colonel Taylor – Henry Goodman
Jai – Jaimini Pathak
Ahmad bhai – Jayant Kripalani
Meenakshi – Ratnabali Bhattacharjee
Akshay – Trikash Karkera
Dacoit 1 – Rajit Kapur
Dacoit 2 – Pushan Kripalani
Neelima Kumari – Radhika Mital
Shankar – Rohit Malkani
Swapna Devi – Devika Shahani-Punjabi
Darshan – Jamini Pathak
Nita – Radhika Apte
TV Producer – Jayant Kripalani
Vikas – Rohit Malkani

Production:

Written by – Ayeesha Menon
From the novel by – Vikas Swarup
Music – Sacha Puttnam
Sound – Nick Russell-Pavier
Assistant Director – Tasneem Fatehi
Sound Assistant – Ameet Mallapur
Producer – Nadir Khan
Executive Producer, Sound Design and Director – John Scott Dryden