Suspense Episodes

Felicity Appleby's plan to have the building belonging to the London investment bank Ruff, Tumble and Bounderby declared a building worth preserving by the Historical Building Association means the re-entry into her life of Aiden Duchenny, an ex-boyfriend. Will he help her, or will that entail a price that nobody should expect her to pay? 🎧 To get the best experience of this story, listen with headphones. Image from Edward Penfield by rawpixel. Sound effects courtesy of Pixabay. ...

Felicity Appleby has promised to help the Impressions, the peculiar inhabitants of the investment bank she works at near St Paul's Cathedral, find a way to stop the building they inhabit being torn down. But how will that be possible when other people hardly ever notice them? Could Felicity's old boyfriend Aidan Duchenny - also known as Aidan the Douchebag - help her find a way? 🎧 To get the best experience of this story, listen with headphones. Image from Edward Penfield by rawpixel. ...

Felicity Appleby has a job she hates in the London investment bank Ruff, Tumble and Bounderby. The only plus side is the bank's beautiful 19th century building and its location in the City of London, near St Paul's Cathedral. However, after bumping her head on a cupboard door, Felicity finds that the building is home to a whole other group of people, the Impressions, who badly need her help. Can she help them survive the 21st century? 🎧 To get the best experience of this story, listen with hea...

Superlearning - now that sounds like a nice way to polish your skills. Lie back, get a massage, relax and allow the soft whispering in your ear to improve your performance, without any effort at all. Only over time, too much superlearning might have unforeseen consequences, and turn you from a pleasant coworker into a raging sociopath. And then who knows what might happen? Music and sound effects: JuliusH and Pixabay Picture: Rawpixel

Imagine you have only six months to live. What would you do with the time? A) Travel B) Eat in the best restaurants C) Poison the managing director of the company you worked at for thirty years? The choice is yours… The text for the story can be found in the transcript section on my website: https://www.podpage.com/behind-the-bottom-line/ Music by JuliusH, Pixabay. Photo by Food Photographer | Jennifer Pallian on Unsplash

Emily Lee’s holiday in Venice has not been peaceful. Some headache tablets packed in Emily’s suitcase by the masseuse Maria Torres from her yoga retreat, turn out to contain ecstasy, causing Emily’s friend Filippo to behave very strangely when he took one by mistake. The two of them have now gone to the police where they find out something even more shocking: Maria’s boyfriend has been found drowned in the lagoon and Maria has disappeared. Filippo has a plan to find out what Caliban Leone is ...

It's the year a shark is spotted swimming down the Grand Canal in Venice, and young executive Emily Lee badly needs a holiday. She decides to travel to the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Relaxation on the small island of Pacelli in the Venetian lagoon for some yoga, warm weather and excellent food. But is the Centre and its charismatic founder, Dr Caliban Leone, everything it should be? Music by JuliusH from Pixabay

Behind the Bottom Line is back on the audio waves for season 6 on October 6 with a detective story, 'Peril in Venice'. Join Emily Lee as she travels from Munich to the island of Pacelli in the Venetian lagoon for a well-deserved holiday at the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Meditation. The question is, will she manage to return?

Derek Ebdon is an art forger of such exceptional skill that the experts find it impossible to tell if a work is created by him or by one of the old masters. But one day he buys a book with occult powers, and things start to go badly wrong. This story was first written for Business Spotlight in 2017. Music: A Hand In The Dark - Underbelly & Ty Mayer Image by Jazella from Pixabay.

Colin Sutherland is starting to panic. A strange encounter with the fox when the family is out driving, and cryptic messages left on the answering machine from Inspector Hüttl in Frankfurt about his ex-mistress Yasmin Tilki, give him the feeling of being trapped. But instead of asking for help from Flora and the children, he lashes out at them, driving them away. Then a noise outside in the dark makes him think he might at least be able to deal with Princess Jasmine … Photo by Alex Andrews...

Colin's behaviour has become increasingly peculiar after a phone call from Inspector Hüttl of the Frankfurt police and the repeated appearances of a mysterious fox his children have named Princess Jasmine. Over Christmas itself, things seem to calm down, until the family has to drive along a quiet, foggy road late at night ... Photo by Erik Mclean from Pexels

Colin Sutherland has flown back to Ireland from Frankfurt for Christmas with his family. But all is not well: his ex-mistress has disappeared in mysterious circumstances and the police are now looking for her. Meanwhile an anonymous postcard with a picture of the Hotel in the Süd Tirol they stayed in together has arrived at his home. The fact that his garden is visited at night by a fox shouldn’t be a big deal, so why does it upset Colin so much? And then Inspector Regina Hüttl from the Frank...

Meet Colin Sutherland: rich and successful with a loving wife and two adorable children. He’s got everything worked out … or has he? Photo by Pixabay

SUSPENSE: Professor Johnny Hampden, the most brilliant scientist to ever work at Klaxx Pharmaceuticals, has a very good reason to fear side effects. Join him over a brandy and he might tell you the terrible story of Sergeant Norman and a mysterious plant from the depths of the jungle. This story was first published by Business Spotlight in 2016. Photo by James Wheeler from Pexels

Suspense: What would you do with immortality and the powers of a god? You'd put things right in the world you say? But how do you think you'd behave if you found there was something you couldn't get, however powerful you believed yourself to be? Watch out world - Helen's cyber stalker can't handle rejection and things are about to get rough... This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2013. Photo - Plasmaball - Pexels - Pixabay

CRIME: What would you do if you found out your partner was cheating on you? You could throw them out, you could forgive them, you could try counselling ... Or you could do what Rose does and get your revenge. A very nasty revenge. This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2012. Photo by Alan Fikz from Pexels

FABLE: Tony Spark needs money for his start-up and he hopes to get it from a business angel, Archibald Gabriel. But to get the money, Tony has to pass a little test. Will he pass the test and - more interestingly - would you? This story was first published in Business Spotlight in 2011. Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels

MURDER: When you're caught in a traffic jam and you look at the concrete walls of the bridge or the tunnel that's alongside your car, what do you see? Could that be a face looking back at you? Mr Dimkin could tell you, but would you want to know? This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2012.