Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs
Metra is an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world. The year is 2043. The world is hot, water is scarce, the weather is unpredictable…and the fossil fuel industry continues to thrive. The wealthy are comfortable in their air-purified, cooled, humidified, superbly hydrated Bubble cities. But in a roadside bar on the Outside, an unlikely group of revolutionaries is about to demand a new story. Starring Tony-nominee Jeannette Bayardelle and a Broadway and NYC theatre cast. Metra weaves ancient myth, transformative magic, and memorable music to tell the story of a dangerous climate future, and the fight for the world we deserve. Written and created by The Hartfords.
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Metra is an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world.
The year is 2043. The world is hot, water is scarce, the weather is unpredictable…and the fossil fuel industry continues to thrive. The wealthy are comfortable in their air-purified, cooled, humidified, superbly hydrated Bubble cities. But in a roadside bar on the Outside, an unlikely group of revolutionaries is about to demand a new story.
Starring Tony-nomi...
2041, a ramshackle bar in climate-devastated northeastern America.
Cori recovers from her bifurcated consciousness. Aglaphonos foretells their next recruit, just before Samantha takes refuge in the bar. Cori pitches the revolution--but does she fully understand what she's asking?
Songs:
"Cascade Outro"
"Reporting for Duty"
"Take a Bite"
Content Note: Brief instance of peril as a...
Meet the Tree Nymph Chorus. Don't worry, they'll guide you through the story.
We begin at the end, in 2045--facing down a line of armed security forces at the edge of the Bubbles. And then, we jump back to 2015 and a remote Greek island. An ancient tree nymph recruits the central player in her climate revolution. They begin a dangerous journey.
Songs:
"Welcome From the Nymphs"
"Back to the ...
The revolutionaries learn that their Process has triggered some devastating fallout.
Sam proposes a new direction, and Aggie bristles at a judgmental counterpart. Cori attempts a dangerous quest for some of the mission’s missing pieces.
The team gain new allies.
Songs:
“A Nymphian Interlude”
Written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Dialogue Directed by Emily Hartf...
We're pleased to share another audio drama we love, which features the creators of METRA!
In this audio dramedy, the world is shaken by the transformations of women into dragons who consume and immolate men. This is Season 1, Episode 1: Ray.
Find the show: https://pod.link/1511981177
Season 1: A tourist from afar tries to understand what, when any woman could literally eat you for lunch, is a guy supposed to do? Who can you trust...
To launch their mission against the Bubbles, the team needs someone on the inside. Someone with access to the Bubble security systems. Luckily their new friend, Diane, has gear that their mark is desperate to get his hands on.
Things are about to get very real. Is our team ready?
Written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Dialogue Directed by Emily Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media
The day arrives.
Cori, Sam, Aglaphonos, and Tom are about to intercept their subject and throw him into the Process. Will it win him over? Can the Bubble people change?
Songs:
“Welcome Mythmakers”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 1”
“Metra’s Mother”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 2”
Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something
Support Metra at ko-...
Check out this teaser for another audio drama we love -- Wanderer's Journal, by Timothy Rafael and Lumi Oakes.
Wanderer’s Journal is a fantasy fiction podcast about Marigold and Pluto, and their unlikely friendship formed through a magical journal that links them. Each of them finds a journal, learns that their voice is recorded into it, and can be both read and played back to the other. Unbeknownst to them, they become a part ...
Tyler is drawn further into the Process.
Sam shares her story of transformation.
Aglaphonos takes on a chilling new persona.
Songs:
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 3”
“Ceres’ Curse”
“Famine”
Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something
Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical
Written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Music ...
Dear Listeners:
We believe the time has come to clear the air on a matter of some…complexity.
Are you the sort of listener who keeps an ear out for patterns? Repetition?
Perhaps you’ve noticed a unique name popping up in numerous places.
Perhaps you’re one of the Metra listeners who heard Episode 4 and began to have questions.
You’re not alone. Today we address such a listener questio...
Tom Molpe attempts to answer a big question.
...
Books for Earline (and anyone else who may find them useful):
Climate Crisis - Overall
The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann
Falter by Bill McKibben
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How To Fight It by Genevieve Guenther
Climate Crisis and Extractive Capitalism
Wealt...
The penultimate episode; the culmination of the Process. Will Tyler make the right choice?
Songs:
“Cori Comes Home” reprise
“Take a Bite”
“Fearful”
Content note: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault.
Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something
Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical
Written by Emily and Ned H...
Very excited to introduce this show to Metra listeners -- All Around Science!
All Around Science is weekly podcast by two huge science fans discussing what’s new and interesting in science. Science is our window into incredible worlds, from impossibly small atoms to impossibly distant stars. We want to use it to discover as much as possible, and share it with you every week.
This is episode 220, "The Dirt Beneath Your Feet.&quo...
The finale.
Are we tied to the tracks of this catastrophe?
Songs:
“Fearful” reprise
“Gotta Be Brave”
“With the Swing of an Axe”
“Work for the Night is Coming”
“Epilogue”
Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something
Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical
Written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hart...
Listeners, if you're enjoying Metra's take on storytelling-meets-collective action: have we got a show for you. We're thrilled to recommend a non-fiction podcast this week: one that weaves revolutionary stories from real-world justice movements--
What do a textile worker in Delhi, a student in a Palestinian refugee camp, and a farmworker in 1960s California have in common? In the midst of their struggle for freed...
Tom hears from an old friend and proposes a way forward.
Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something
In particular, we recommend the book, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua
Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical
Follow the show:
https://pod.link/1843713183
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