The Silt Verses

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For a long while now I’ve been getting up at 4.30 or 5am, grabbing myself the first coffee of four, and then coming to sit at my desk. I open up the assembly cut of the newest TSV episode.

I listen to it, I try and pin down which scenes I need to be going back over today. I try and push through the entire morning without a break because when the momen...

The Silt Verses, Chapter 45 (Part Two) - early release

Hi, wonderful people! Please find attached your early copy of the very final episode of The Silt Verses (arghghghg). Spoilers abound within, so please do be mindful of that.

Really hope you enjoy the listen, and thank you so much as ever for your patience and support.

Transcript: https:...

The Silt Verses, Chapter 45 Part I (early release)

Hi, wonderful people - please find your early release of Of Love, And Gods’ Defeat (part one), the first half of our two-part series finale, attached.

OK, we've both been working our asses off this week in the vainglorious hope of getting both parts of the finale complete for release today - and unfortunately, today has thoroughly kicked said...

The Silt Verses Chapter 44 - Episode Commentary

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I spent a long time in the early planning stages of this season tearing out my hair over finale logistics - in particular, the question of how to efficiently get Hayward and Carpenter back to the White Gull and within touching distance of the other main characters after the...

The Silt Verses Chapter 44 (early release)

Hi, folks - please find attached your early release of The Silt Verses Chapter 44! As ever, thank you so much for your kind support, and really hope you enjoy the listen.

In the wake of the Parish's attack, Carpenter tries desperately to get Hayward out of Glottage. Carson attempts to find a useful spin on recent events. Paige gathers the Children of the Woundtree together to agree on the...

The end approacheth...and fast!

OK, wonderful people: just a quick update to confirm that we are going to stick with two weeks per release for the final two Silt Verses episodes rather than trying to cram this one into a week-and-a-half. (Chapter 44 is essentially done but I'd like a little more time with it to do the final polish.)<...

The Silt Verses Episode Commentary - Chapter 43

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There’s a really interesting debate that’s been playing out in the past few years about how TV writers and showrunners respond to visible audience speculation online, and how that can send them running in all of the wrong directions by trying to subvert or pre-empt it (...

The Silt Verses Chapter 43 (ad-free release)

Hi, folks - please find your ad-free episode of the Silt Verses Chapter 43 attached! It's a big one, clocking in at just under 80 minutes.

Huge apologies as well to our early release tiers - I ended up having to go back to a couple of the later scenes which I thought needed more work so couldn't get the episode up yesterday in a condition I was satisfied with (slow working with a big blis...

The Silt Verses Chapter 43 - 19th/20th July update

Hey, amazing people!

Just a note that the next Silt Verses episode will be coming in a few days late, for what are slightly ridiculous dog-ate-my-homework reasons (Jon burnt his hand on an oven dish and hasn't been able to complete sound design on the last couple of scenes through his dressing! He's absolutely fine otherwise.)

We'll expect to release the early tier this coming Wedne...

The Silt Verses episode commentary - Chapters 41 & 42

Of course I knew that there's a big difference between monologue and dialogue when it comes to recording time - but it still absolutely caught me by surprise that these two episodes (intended to be one episode!) had a script that’s only 49 pages, compared to the previous episodes that were ru...

The Silt Verses Chapter 41 (early release)...er, again

Hi, amazing people!

So in our last post, I mentioned that we'd split this ultra-long episode into two hour-long chapters, one focusing on Faulkner, Carpenter, Hayward and Shrue, and Val (which we already released a few days early) - and the other focused on Paige, which you'll find in your feeds and attached to this post.

The two episodes take place pretty much simultaneously and ha...

The Silt Verses Chapter 42 (super-early release)

UPDATE (2.6.24): I mentioned a couple of days back that we'd split this ultra-long episode into two hour-long chapters, with one focusing on Faulkner, Carpenter, Hayward and Shrue, and Val (which we released a few days early), and the other focusing on Paige.

The two episodes take place pretty much simultaneously and have very little immediate bearing on each other, so they can be listene...

This is how it ends

...or in other words, here's our final The Silt Verses release schedule, in full:

• Chapter 41 (But As My Last Breath Splits My Throat) 3rd June 2024

• Chapter 42: 17th June 2024

• Chapter 43: 1st July 2024

• ...
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The Silt Verses Chapter 40 - episode commentary

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This felt like an important scene to have for Hayward as a character, looking up at his old childhood home. 

Our other three protagonists have all got to have at least one episode focused on their childhood and their family and their past, and we obviously...

The Silt Verses Chapter 40 (early release)

Hi, folks! Please find attached your early release of The Silt Verses Chapter 40 - as ever, really hope you enjoy the listen and thank you for your kind support.

Transcript: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-season-3-chapter-11

Content warnings:

W...

Silt Verses Chapter 39: episode commentary

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This was an odd, broad, ambitious episode, and it didn’t come together quite as cohesively I would have liked it to (I feel like I say that a lot, but so it goes); we ended up actually recording during COP28, which certainly ended up feeling eerily thematically rel...

The Silt Verses Chapter 39 (ad-free)

Hi, folks - please find attached your ad-free edition of The Silt Verses Chapter 39! As ever, a huge, huge thanks for your kind support in helping to make the episode and the show happen.

We truly appreciate it and we're very, very grateful - hope you enjoy the ep.

Episode description

As Carpenter and Hayward enter war-torn Glottage in pursuit of a gov...

Next episode coming your way 8th April (thank you so much for your patience!)

Hey, amazing people!

A quick update from us (and happily, it's a positive one); after a couple of months of disruption and illness, we are officially back on track, and the next episode of The Silt Verses will be landing in your podfeeds on Monday 8th April (Sunday for the higher-tier patrons).<...

Quick update on the next release

Hey, wonderful folks - we're aiming to get the next episode to you on Thursday 22nd February.

We've continued to have some health ups-and-downs over the past couple of months so it's just been me (bar a few directing sessions which Muna's very kindly sat up in bed for!) working on production for a while now, and these last eps continue to be absolutely massive - this one and the episode a...

The Silt Verses episode commentary - Chapter 38

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We always knew this was going to be a really difficult episode to pull together, and while there’s a lot I love about it, most obviously the two lead performances, I think probably overall it’s not quite where I wanted to get it to in the second half.

I...

The Silt Verses Chapter 38 (ad-free release)

Hey, folks - apologies, this one's coming in a little late, but really hope you enjoy the listen as ever. It's TSV Chapter 38, Shall Perish In Ruin And Rust.

Just working up the transcript now, but the link will be here: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-season-3-chapter-9 2024-01-25 18:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post

The Silt Verses Chapter 37 - episode commentary

In which Jon talks us through the making of Chapter 37 of TSV:

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This was the episode that caused a lot of stress before Christmas, because I just couldn’t get it right.

I’d had this idea that I wanted to end the first half of the season with, essenti...

The Silt Verses - Chapter 37 (early release)

Hi, wonderful people - happy 2024! Please find attached your early release of The Silt Verses Chapter 37 - as ever, really hope you enjoy.

The transcript will go live here on launch day.

Everyone has their breaking point. As Val advances towards Nesh, Paige resolves to shoulder the bu...