WRITTEN BY DARIO KNIGHT
PERFORMED BY ERIKA SANDERSON
This award-winning audio series charts the adventures of Victorian inventor and explorer Professor Elizabeth Chronomier, who sails her temporal ship on the great river of time.
"...a truly wonderful dose of escapism, beautifully crafted by Dario Knight, whose prose is a delight to listen to. In the story-telling, and in the various characterisations, Erika Sanderson ensures that the listener is captivated throughout. Surprising, engaging, joyful."
Five-star review from Podchaser
Winner of the 'Best Storyteller in a New Storytelling Production' category at the 2020 Audioverse Awards
Professor Chronomier's very first adventure. Setting sail on her maiden voyage in her in her time-ship, the Professor leaves Victorian London and arrives in 1593, where she finds a murderer on the loose. Released from the depths of the time river, an inhuman monster has designs on history itself...
There was once a lonely man who had walked among royalty and danced with danger. Now all he has left is his nightmare. The same dark vision appears to him each night, bringing with it a deadly creature from another realm, and a kindly woman whose face the man could swear he's seen before...
After a turbulent voyage along the time river, the Professor and Astrid find themselves in the early 19th Century, each living through a different version of the same woman's story. There's something very wrong with history, and the disturbances all appear to centre around a woman named Jane...
Colliding with a peculiar device hidden in the depths of the river, the Professor and Astrid reach the shore of an island that shouldn't exist. They're greeted by a fellow temporal explorer, who has some difficult truths to share about the heartache that sailing the time river can lead to...
A trip into the future takes the Professor and Astrid further than they had bargained for, when they arrive on a deserted moor that's slowly disappearing. Here is where the river of time meets the sea. Here is where a secret was hidden, and a child was lost. Here is where all things must pass...
The Professor finally returns home - just in time for Christmas - where her old friend Runcible is ready to welcome her and Astrid. However, the trio soon discovers that a visitor from the time river has followed them to Victorian London, and is about to unleash temporal chaos in Attewell Street...
London, 1895. A dangerous temporal criminal is on the loose, with a famous target in their sights. Determined to stop them, Astrid enlists with the time-travelling Enforcers hunting him down, whilst the Professor goes undercover - unaware that a shadow from their past has fallen upon the case...
The Professor and Astrid land on an abandoned ship in the middle of the ocean. Whilst the Professor investigates the captain's journal for clues as to the fate of the missing crew, Astrid searches the ship and keeps her eye on the horizon, where a dangerous temporal storm is about the descend...
An anomaly in the time river washes the Professor and Astrid up on the shore of Ancient Britain, where they find themselves on opposing sides of Boudica's rebellion against the Romans. Soon more temporal disturbances begin to occur, leading them both to a confrontation with the Goddess of Victory...
Runcible's Emporium contains the most enormous collection of books, maps, and curios from across the world, looked after by Runcible himself and his trusty cat Hermes. But something is wrong. An infection is creeping across the pages of history, and the cause of it all is worryingly close to home...
Here - upon the temporal shore -
Is where, at last, we meet once more;
For here our journey was begun,
And here is where our tale is done...