Part 5: The Garden
In an idyllic countryside English garden, Helen potters. No matter what happens in the world outside, her garden will always be there when Helen needs to hide away. With her flowers, and her trees, and the bees in the back that know exactly what she did. Ignorance is bliss, right?
A psychological audio thriller. Unsettling. Gripping. Scary.
Strap yourself in: this is a listening experience like no other…
(we recommend headphones for this one)
The Garden is Part Five in our science-fiction anthology, Cloud 9.
Content warning: This piece contains horror, threat of death, and psychological torment.
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The Garden’s
Creative Team
Shaun Mendum
Writer/Producer
Shaun is the curator and lead producer of this anthology. He works extensively in theatre and as a voice artist.
His work as a voice actor includes BAFTA-winning video game Baldur’s Gate 3, BAFTA-nominated documentary Forced Out, Netflix’s anime Love Through a Prism, and the English dub of Netflix’s fantasy series Nero. He regularly attends conventions around the world for his work in video games, including Honkai Star Rail and Final Fantasy 14.
Shaun also wrote and directed short film The Jacket for BBC4/BBC iPlayer, and The Guest, which debuted at the Southwark Playhouse.
Andrew Mark-Sewell
Director
Andrew Mark Sewell is a former BBC Creative Director and now multi-award-winning radio drama producer/director (Best Drama & Fiction Producer at the Audio Production Awards 2022), publisher and indie filmmaker. Co-founder of UK indie B7 Media and new audio drama platform Audioteria.com, Sewell is also on the NYF Radio Advisory Board.
Sewell is best known for the audio drama re-imagining of comic-strip space hero Dan Dare and cult BBC television series Blake’s 7. Other dramas for BBC Radio 4 include Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, legal drama Barred and the much-praised retelling of the poem ‘Mahabharata’ set in modern Mumbai, Mahabharata Now. He was lead UK producer on the Wondery+ WW2 series Unsinkable featuring Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Brian Cox and John Malkovich, co-created and directed the radio soap opera Greenborne and most recently directed Theatre of the Damned featuring Amir El-Masry, Sam Crane and Kelly Burke, inspired by the true story of the legendary theatre in Paris, The Grand Guignol.
Film credits include Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont and a four-film collaboration with Canadian director Paul Andrew Kimball; The Cuckoo in the Clock, Roundabout, Exit Thread and The Colour of Spring. Sewell is currently in pre-production of crime horror film Kill Everything with Ed Polgardy, who produced the hit horror film The Wretched.
Matthew Kulewicz
Sound Design
Matthew Kulewicz, is an award winning Dialogue Designer and Sound Mixer whose work has been featured on multiple AAA games and animated features/series. Some recent titles include "Arcane: Season 2", "Batman: Arkham Shadow", "Star Wars: Outlaws" and "Death Stranding 2: On the Beach". Outside of engineering he is a SAG-e voice actor specializing in extreme/creature vocals, with numerous casted titles currently under NDA.
As an educator Matthew is a full-time professor of sound/sound design at Chapman University in Orange County, LA. He is also an active member of MPSE, NAVA and the Television Academy.
Imran Ahmad
Original Score
Imran Ahmad is a British Indian Film Composer and Music Artist from London, U.K.
His latest feature film THE LEDGE (2022) starring Britanny Ashworth and Ben Lamb was released in February 2022 by Paramount Home Entertainment in the USA. In June 2022, it reached no. 7 in the Top 10 Films on Netflix UK.
Imran has enjoyed a long association with indie producer B7 Media and created original scores for several full-cast audio dramas broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Notable productions include the New York Festivals Radio Award winners’, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (2014) starring Derek Jacobi and Hayley Atwell, I, ROBOT (2017) starring Hermione Norris and DAN DARE (2018) starring Heida Reed and Ed Stoppard. He also scored the ten-part Audible docudrama series THE SPACE RACE (2019) narrated by Kate Mulgrew.
ADDITIONAL CREATIVES:
OLOF ROCKNER - Artwork
ThunderBird - Opening Theme Music
Haitch - Recording Engineer
Helen Quigley - Audio Trailer
Tatiana Szewczuk - Visual Trailer
Shaun Mendum - Trailer Voice Over
Special thanks to Jukebox Recording Studios
Shaun Mendum - Lead Producer/Curator
Jun Noh - Co-Producer
Helen Quigley - Co-Producer
The Garden’s Cast
Katy Ma
Helen
As a professional voiceover artist for the last 27 years, Katy has worked daily from her own professionally built & equipped ISDN enabled Pro built STUDIO, with numerous commercials and corporate web/video work to her name both Nationally and Internationally alongside AAA games & International Dubbing for Netflix.
Credits include The Outlast, Sherlock, Eastenders, and Holby City.
Gary Turn
Henry
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Gary is probably best remembered for playing ‘Carlos Diaz’ in Yorkshire Television’s Emmerdale and the evil ‘Nathan Blake’ in Hollyoaks - Let Loose.
Other television credits include playing Anthony Bourdain for Starz Autopsy, Casualty, Soldier, Soldier, (Carlton), The Bill (Thames), Anatomy of a Crime (BBC), Courtroom (Mersey TV) and Families (Granada).
On Film he played ‘Duncan Grant’ in Carrington and ‘Roberto’ in Never Mind.
Most recently in theatre Gary played Erroll in “A Question of Errol Flynn” at the Sir John Mills theatre Ipswic, and Peter Meredith in Strictly Murder, which toured the UK for Hello World productions and is due to be turned into a major feature film next year.
Amelia Sewell
Mia
Amelia Sewell is student at the much-respected Redroofs School for the Performing Arts with whom she featured in various musical stage performances, including most recently at Disneyland Paris.
"The Garden" marks Amelia’s debut audio drama role and she's proud to have now added “creepy child” to her acting CV.
Louisa Gummer
Judith/Doctor
Trained at Mountview in London, Louisa worked professionally on stage, TV and in film as well as voiceover work.
As well as voicing thousands of commercials, corporates and documentaries, Louisa can also be heard in video games, animation, museum guides, in audio dramas and audiobooks, as a Voice of God at events, an MRI scanner and an airplane cockpit. Louisa is also the newest voice on the London Northern Line.
I occasionally perform on the London comedy circuit and am also a member of the London Liars League acting company, who regularly present new short stories in front of a paying and appreciative audience. I also sing in a great choir, whose many prestigious performances include the BBC Proms, the Royal Variety Show and the Olivier Awards.
Helen Quigley
Co-Producer
Helen Quigley is freelance audio producer working on audio drama with B7 Media, and branded podcasts with Fresh Air Production and Boffin Media.
Previously she was a Producer for Comedy Central UK responsible for producing two of the UK’s first comedy podcasts; Robin Ince’s Show and Tell and Utter Shambles.
Audio drama producer credits include Theatre of the Damned - inspired by a true story set in 1920s Paris; Greenborne - a radio soap opera and Harry’s Home, about a family coping with dementia. For Audible, she co-produced the docudrama The Space Race, the psychological thriller series The Effect and multiple audiobooks. Credits for BBC Radio 4 include the courtroom drama Barred, the nine part Indian saga Mahabharata Now and she will make her Radio 4 directing debut this year with a soon-to-be-announced Christmas drama.
She was also co-producer and dialogue editor on the Wondery+ audio movie Unsinkable, starring Brian Cox, John Malkovich and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
Helen is based in Chelmsford - the birthplace of wireless - working from her garden office and recording studio as Soundliness, a boutique podcast production company which launched its first podcast series, Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues in Spring 2025.
Meet the Producers!
Shaun Mendum
Co-Producer and Project LeadWith a background in theatre and audio, Shaun’s work includes working as an actor in video games, animation, radio drama, and writing and directing a short for the BBC.
Shaun’s vision was to provide a platform that brought emerging and established artists together, and to create a body of audio drama that captivated audiences in fresh, exciting, and unsettlingly real worlds.
Jun Noh
Jun is a writer-director and actor, passionate about the blend of cinema, theatre, and philosophy. He enjoys tension in stillness, and storytelling that confronts belief and grief. A Leverhulme Arts Scholar, with an MFA in Professional Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Co-Producer