Support & Membership
RadioTrama has never carried programmatic advertising. Every episode we release — every soundscape layered by hand, every ensemble rehearsal, every eleven-week edit that turns a script into a short film for the ears — is paid for by listeners, not by an algorithm selling your attention back to you. Membership is not a transaction. It is the room this studio is built inside.
Three doors into the same studio
Free RSS and email are the open door. Patreon is the rolling monthly room. Memberful is the annual residency with lossless archives. All three fund the same work — none of them interrupt it.
Free · always
€0 / forever
The full season feed, every published episode, in standard quality, with no paywall. Subscribe by RSS, by email, or through your podcast app of choice.
Patreon · monthly
from €5 / month
The studio's original funding room since 2015. Four tiers, each adding a layer of access — Director's Cut episodes, early releases, behind-the-scenes process notes.
Memberful · annual
from €60 / year
The archival tier. DRM-free lossless downloads of every episode in FLAC, plus the entire back catalogue and the writers' room methodology papers.
Already a member of one and curious about another? — Write to the studio and we'll help you cross the rooms without losing your history.
What members receive
Membership is not an upsell. It is a contract about how a piece of audio drama is allowed to behave once it reaches your headphones — uninterrupted, uncompressed, and finished with the same care that went into the script.
01 — The Director's Cut
The Director's Cut is the version we hand to each other in the studio — extended scenes, alternative ensemble takes, and process commentary from senior sound designer Inês Faro. Released alongside every main episode since Day One, exclusively for paying members. Not a bonus track bolted on after the fact. A second cut of the same film, kept honest.
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Memberful residents receive every episode as a FLAC file — uncompressed, untagged, owned outright. 140+ episodes across the back catalogue, yours to archive on whatever drive you trust.
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94% of studio revenue comes from members. Programmatic advertising does not enter the feed — there are no mid-rolls to skip, no host-read slots, no third-party pixels running in the background. The episode you press play on is the episode that plays.
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Patrons and Members receive new episodes two days before the public RSS feed goes live — a window kept quiet on purpose, for listeners who want to arrive at a season's premiere without spoilers already in the room.
A note before you read further
Ninety-four percent of every episode you hear is paid for by listeners who decided this studio was worth a monthly note of support. No programmatic advertising. No mid-roll interruptions. No platform exclusives — and never any, by our own bylaws. The room is small, the door is closed, and the audience decides what gets made next.
— The RadioTrama editorial standard, on record since 2014.
Small, practical questions
Every question below has been asked in our inbox at least once. They are answered plainly, in the order most listeners ask them.
Every new season premieres for everyone, on the open RSS feed, four weeks before it appears in the member library. Free listening never closes. Members simply receive the season sooner, alongside lossless masters and the Director's Cut edits.
Yes. The full public feed is mirrored on RSS, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and Overcast — no exclusive platform deals, by policy. RSS is the canonical home; if a platform ever changes its terms, the feed does not move with it.
Memberships are managed through Patreon and Memberful, both of which let you cancel from your account in two clicks, at any time, with no retention email loop. Refunds for the current billing month are issued on request within the first fourteen days — write to [email protected] and a human will reply within two business days.
Early access to every new season, DRM-free lossless downloads (24-bit FLAC and WAV), the Director's Cut episodes with extended scenes and production commentary, and quarterly letters from the writers' room. Member tenure across the studio now averages 3.2 years — most of the work is funded by people who simply keep showing up, season after season.
An invitation, not a pitch
Membership starts at the price of a paperback, billed monthly or yearly, and can be cancelled from your account at any time. Free RSS listening remains available forever — the membership simply moves you closer to the work.
RadioTrama Estúdio de Ficção Sonora, Lda. · Lisbon, Portugal · Member-funded since 2014.
