Neon Inkwell: Inexplicables 1 - Old Wounds, New Tricks
Added 2024-01-24 16:00:12 +0000 UTCFollowing their mother’s death, thirty-something disasters Harold and Meredith return to their hometown of Gravesby in the North of England for the funeral. There they must also contend with the ICS, their late mother’s social care business. But the ICS and its clients are a lot stranger than the siblings expected…
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Content Warnings:
- Alcohol & alcoholism
- Arguments (inc. family conflict)
- Parental death
- Childhood trauma
- Emotional breakdown
- Strong language & sexual references
- Vicarious embarrassment
- Discussions of: grief and loss, funerals
- Mentions of: food, eviction, threats/violence, vomit, drug use, fainting, physical violence, blades (inc. SFX)
- SFX: shouting, crying, repetitive buzzing & knocking, eating/drinking, misophonia
A selection of resources pertaining to some of the issues & themes raised in the show is provided below the credits.
Transcripts and SFX credit lists available here: https://shorturl.at/egBQ1
Written by Tom Critch and Alexander J. Newall
Script Editing by Helen Gould
Produced by Hannah Preisinger
Directed by Maddy Searle
Production Manager April Sumner
Executive Producer Alexander J. Newall
Performances:
- Beth Eyre as Meredith Stonewell
- Harry Farmer as Harold Stonewell
- Safiyya Ingar as Shuhela
- Ian Hayles as Frank
- Fay Roberts as Cressida
- Mark Nicolson as Abraham Godbolt
- Karim Kronfli as John Belfrage
- Savy Des-Etages as Lily Jones
- Vera Chok as Suzy Broadbent
- Alexander Doddy as William Allen
- Alexander J. Newall as Ivan / Meredith's Boss
- Alasdair Stuart as Landlord
- Imogen Harris as Announcement / Voicemail
- Mike LeBeau as Barman
- Maddy Searle as Businesswoman
Editing by Maddy Searle
Mastering by Jeffrey Nils Gardner
Music by Samuel DF Jones
Artwork by Anika Khan
The world of Inexplicables can be a difficult one; please find below a selection of resources pertaining to some of the issues and themes discussed in the show.
- https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support/
- https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-getting-help/
- https://www.talktofrank.com/
- https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/
- https://www.shelter.org.uk/
- https://www.swarmcollective.org/
- https://uglymugs.org/um/about/
- https://www.mind.org.uk/
Inexplicables is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence.
Comments
Don’t know if you ended up listening? But I thought the same though I ended up listening cause I were at work and it’s pretty short! There’s a lot of character development and is quite a lovely show, have a great day !
Jamie Needham
2025-02-15 21:21:46 +0000 UTC=T Is this one any good at all? I'm finding the main characters utterly disgusting and vile. I think I may just like the first episodes and sick this one. Voice acting is on point to make me have such a reaction but ugh I don't think this is for me.
Jenny Rii
2024-11-25 18:10:34 +0000 UTCI'd forgotten just how hard this one swings right out of the gate. The music! All the telling little character moments! Loss and who's responsible to provide, eviction and reception, power grabs and consequences. Still amused at the swear budget yeeting out the window right from the start - in a show so unafraid to worry at your jugular, it does help to get cues that mature content is contained within and people's coping mechanisms aren't getting watered down or redacted for arbitrary proprieties. For all the supernatural elements, this show feels very real in its emotional beats - we all know people having a hard time and not dealing well. Characters like the ones in Inexplicables help humanize those struggles; they help us see the consequences, the opportunities of our own agency, that care is a verb that can do things, not a noun of helpless burden. Very glad this show is getting a public release now.
JJ Hunter
2024-01-25 01:38:34 +0000 UTCI am so GLAD TO HAVE A RELISTENING EXCUSE. Meredith my fav girlfailure, I am here for your whole journey
MarlaBothBothIsGood
2024-01-24 21:04:01 +0000 UTCI am so glad this is getting a public release.
Melissa Raney
2024-01-24 16:26:56 +0000 UTCWhen the content warning list is as long as my forearm BUT the show also has pretty much all my favourite voice actors from across the RQ network...
Helena McCoy
2024-01-24 16:15:06 +0000 UTCYEASH
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2024-01-24 16:02:28 +0000 UTC
