Night Terrors

Happy Halloween!

I'm going to be taking part in National Novel Writing Month through November; writing 1667 words a day is tricky enough without also recording a podcast each morning. But fear not, you won't be left without your daily dose of Lepari! My lovely wife will be taking over recording duties for the month, five days a week. I think we'll save Saturday and Sunday as days off - the weekends tend to have the lowest listener figures anyway - and once November's over, see how things develop from there.

Thanks for listening, and I hope these little snapshots continue to entertain!

The March of the Lamplighters

A Question of Alchemy

Unlicensed

Out of Afriq

Grand Ambitions

Carnival

For the Numbers

Hunter

Looking at the Stars

Passage

Gourmand

Correspondent

In The Wings

Into Battle

Conductor

In memory of Trisha Macfarlane; great friend and awesome conductor.

1984 - 2011

Rest in peace, Trish.

The Coming Storm

The Vice of Father Moreau

Better late than never, here's today's postcard. I've been bed-bound today with the terribly virulent whiny manflu, and my voice was in no condition whatsoever to record. Luckily I remembered this evening that I had this postcard as a buffer from about 6 months ago, so I won't have to break my streak this time!

Turncoat

Vertigo

Professional

The Monsters of Childhood

The Colours of Fire

Visionary

Representative

Amongst the Bones

Disappointment

A Lifetime of Service

The Smell of Success

Content Warning!



When I originally had the idea for this podcast, one of my first concerns was how to find suitable music to bookend the pieces. Given the setting and my influences, I decided to try to track down some accordion music - despite being slightly anachronistic to my time period, the instrument exemplified the tone and feel I wanted for these stories - and trawled the mighty internet in search of something which caught my ear.

On Youtube I found endless renditions of the same two or three songs, which I'd heard were supposed to be beautiful, but there was something missing; no soul, no heart, just the notes being played one after another. I doubted I'd ever find what I was looking for. And then I encountered Wolfgang Thobae. There was so much more warmth to his playing, such emotion, that I knew I'd found what I was after.



Wolfgang was kind enough to let me use his music for this podcast, so if you've been enjoying it so far, please stop over at his Youtube channel - where he's got a far-wider variety than I've been using here - and let him know!

Waterton's Crusade

Alliance