Mosaic Monologues
A six-part audio drama series featuring writers with provocative and unexpected tales. The short monologues range from a protagonist whose fear becomes a gremlin-like creature inhabiting their body, to a life-changing encounter at an airport when attempting to escape the toxicity of the UK.
Edited by: Ishy Din
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Mosaic Monologues
Ishy Din
"To listen to these amazing bite-sized stories and the characters brought to life by the writers is fantastic."
A new series where dramatists share their stories in their own voices. This first collection brings together stories ranging from the surreal to the intimate: a doctor performing lobotomies to purgatory on a bus.
Creation
Mara Menzies
"I've made myself at home, right there, in the soft space between her ribs… in the hollow of her throat."
Fear itself describes how through its machinations, it wove itself into the life of a woman who is exploring her freedom, her body and her beauty.
Sapphire’s blues
Connor Allen
"Anger’s gone. No longer seeing red, just butterflies filling my heart. Overwhelming thoughts in my head."
One stressful night, young TJ steps onto a bus with no destination – only to find himself on a journey that warps time and love in a chance encounter with a passenger.
Shifting shadows
Tahmina Ali
"Mam still insists I’m not properly Bangladeshi because I don’t like fish curries that incinerate your tongue."
Between motherhood, marriage and the weight of expectation, Anika has always put herself last. But the loss of her twin brother sparks reckoning; if not now, when?
The before & the after
Shahid Iqbal Khan
"I picked up the ice pick. I opened her right eyelid and slid the ice pick in. I pushed it in until I found the bone I was looking for."
Dr Murray has it all – a thriving career, a regular income and a loving wife. But his ethical conscience rears its ugly head. It pecks away at him. Dare he give it a voice and risk it all?
A woman’s work
Nabeela Ahmed
"Can you imagine if I had agreed to move to Luton when he came? You would have had to bury me within a year."
How is a woman’s work valued in a Kashmiri household? Does wearing traditional clothing from your heritage mean your English is poor or you don’t belong in Britain? 
The prophecy
Testament
"It will be good to read some mad Blakean mythology when I speculate how frequent air crashes are as the plane taxis."
A black man wants to escape Britain. After finding William Blake’s poetry in the airport bookshop, he has an encounter with a stranger that will end everything as he knows it.