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BRASS

Battleground Productions

It is London, 1885 — an alternate history, where the computer age has come 150 years early. In this world of airships, automatons, and computational engines, a family of Victorian science geniuses match wits and weapons against a criminal mastermind for the fate of the Empire.

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Nov 26, 2025 · 17 min
BRASS Stacks Episode 10: Tobermory
Saki's wicked tale of what happens when a beloved feline is gifted the power of speech--much to the dismay of all the members of a weekend gathering at a country house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 12, 2025 · 6 min
BRASS Stacks Episod 9: The Mysterious Case of Miss V.
"What is a ghost?" asks this exquisite and little-known story by Virginia Woolf. In a few short pages, Woolf creates a comic, thoughtful, yet ultimately disturbing portrait of the woman always on the outskirts of the party, the ever-present but unknowable Miss V. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 29, 2025 · 12 min
BRASS Stacks Episode 8: The Storyteller
We turn again to our favorite Stacks writer, Saki, for this deliciously subversive tale of a unconventional fable shared with some rambunctious children on a train ride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 15, 2025 · 14 min
BRASS Stacks 7: Humiliation
The great French writer Maupassant is the author of this charming tale recounting an afternoon of idle gossip between two ladies of leisure, and of a mistress/servant relationship that goes quite wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S7 · E1
Feb 21, 2024 · 6 min
BRASS Stacks 1: Lord Dunsany
We begin this special series of readings from great Victorian and Edwardian authors with two very early stories by poet, playwright and fantasist Lord Dunsany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 13, 2023 · 15 min
BRASS Stacks 6: The Snowman
The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Snowman” tells the melancholy story of a snowman’s ill-suited romance with a kitchen stove. Read by special BRASS Stacks guest Billie Wildrick in a co-production with Utter Love audio experiences. (And thanks to Wildrick for the original music and soundscape in this special episode.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 8, 2023 · 13 min
BRASSS Stacks 5: Christmas Every Day
William Dean Howell’s 1892 story about a little girl who wished it could be Christmas every day has an interesting moral or two for adults as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 8, 2023 · 32 min
Brass Stacks 4: The Disintegrator Machine
Professor Challenger meets an inventor whose creation may prove so catastrophic as to imperil the entire British Empire, in this classic short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by acclaimed voice actor Larry Albert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 1, 2023 · 20 min
BRASS Stacks 3: When the Door Was Opened
A witty parable about the problem of assuming too much about one’s spouse, “When the Door Opened” was written by the Irish author Sarah Grand, one of the pioneers of fiction dealing with the “New Woman.” It’s read by renowned radio actor Larry Albert, best known for playing the titular detective in “The Adventures of Harry Nile” as well as Dr. Watson in Imagination Theatre’s long-running “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S6 · E1
Oct 25, 2023 · 50 min
BRASS Stacks 2: Oh Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad
In this special seasonal BRASS Stacks, our Lord Brass (Charles Leggett) reads M.R. James' wonderfully spooky tale of a academic's unlucky find at an archaeologicall dig--and what finds him after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S6 · E9
Oct 19, 2023 · 13 min
Missives from the World of BRASS 9: Intermittent Correspondents
In the conclusion to our Missives mini-series, the Angel of Blood writes a final letter to Lady Brass–but will it receive a reply?
S6 · E8
Oct 17, 2023 · 14 min
Missives from the World of BRASS, Episode 8: A Bouquet of Clues
A correspondence between Lady and Lord Brass reveals yet another mystery, and another clue in solving the greater question: who is the Angel of Blood?
S6 · E7
Oct 12, 2023 · 15 min
Missives from the World of BRASS 7: The Library of Memory
Lady Brass delves into a correspondence kept in a locked drawer of her House of Memory–letters from the woman who taught her how to truly use a sword.
S6 · E6
Oct 10, 2023 · 10 min
Missives from the World of BRASS, Episode 6: Lady Brass’s Guide to Clues
The (other) Great Detective shares her thoughts on what clues are and how to know when you’ve encountered one–and encounters more than a few herself.
S6 · E5
Oct 5, 2023 · 11 min
Missives from the World of BRASS, Episode 5: Dandy of the Year
Cyril Brass, fashion-plate and formidable fighter, shares his thoughts upon being selected as Dandy of the Year by Jim Dandy Magazine (The Magazine for Dandies).
S6 · E4
Oct 3, 2023 · 15 min
Missives from the World of BRASS, Episode 4: The Antiquarian’s Bookstore
The latest in our new BRASS miniseries features special guest Larry Albert (Harry Nile, Dr. Watson in Imagination Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes) in the role he originated, the loathsome Antiquarian. When an assassin arrives at his bookstore,
S6 · E3
Sep 28, 2023 · 8 min
Missives from the World of BRASS, Episode 3: Vinegar Tom and Holt
In the third episode of our new mini-series, the plot thickens as two rogues-for-hire compare notes on their new employer, the enigmatic Angel of Blood.
S6 · E2
Sep 26, 2023 · 12 min
Missives from the World of BRASS: Episode 2, Vincent Law
London’s most louche crime lord Vincent Law shares thoughts from his private diary, including meditations on style, crime and the shocking revelation that he is being stalked by an unlikely admirer. Featuring Tadd Morgan,
S6 · E1
Sep 21, 2023 · 6 min
Missives from the World of BRASS, Chapter One: Lady Brass’s Guide to Sleuthing
In the first of our new BRASS limited series, Lady Brass gives a short primer in how to solve mysteries–or at least, the ones she considers worth solving. Starring Kate Kraay as Lady Brass, with original music by Bruce Monroe.
S3 · E11
Sep 19, 2023 · 2 min
BRASS Season Four Previously....
The story of the Brass Family returns for its final (for now) chapter, Season Four, starting in two weeks. If you could use a gentle reminder of a plot line or two, give this a listen! (Though no guarantee that it won’t leave you MORE confused….)

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