Mike came to Dylan with a script idea in 2013. The story turned out to be an interesting one. Mike lives in Bristol, and spends his time on 35mm photography, travel journalism and programming. Giant Cannibals is Mike's first feature-length production. Mike reads his emails and tweets from @MediumThrills.
Mike looks into Homer's Odyssey, and digs out more than one uncomfortable question.
How does one tell a whole story using only the human voice? Mike takes a famous tall tale and finds meaning in the medium.
In what he hopes is an affably informal article and not a scruffy, unqualified and overly-personalised rant, Mike shares a first-timer's perspective on recording an audio drama.
We've just finished recording Giant Cannibals. After three exhausting days in-studio, I'm delighted to introduce you to our talented and hard-working cast. Expect plenty more to come; in the meantime, you can view their profiles by by following the links. The full list of contributors can also be found in our People section.
A disguised Odysseus finds Ithaca to be very different from how he left it.
Mike asks what a monster really is, and what fictional monsters can tell us about ourselves.
So we don't trust Odysseus. But what ugly truth might convince him to spin his stories?
Is our hero's own account reliably narrated, or are we right to lose the plot?
Odysseus' story comes to an end, as he explains his time with witches, monsters and the dead.
Can one of our culture's most venerated texts tolerate being re-imagined so liberally? We think so, and here's why.
Odysseus continues to tell his story. After a brush with the Cyclops, Odysseus' homeward journey is thrown violently off course. Giant Cannibals focuses on this section, because we don't think our hero is telling the truth.
Shipwrecked on Scheria and exposed for who he really is, Odysseus begins to tell his story. This is the Cyclops bit, by the way.
Giant Cannibals is a six-part audio drama series, based on a hidden story in Homer's Odyssey. It was written by Dylan Spicer and Mike Warren, and recorded at Attic Attack Studios in Bristol.
The Odyssey is the second-oldest surviving text in Western literature. Here's a ham-fisted attempt to summarise it in eight easy chunks.
Giant Cannibals is a re-telling of The Odyssey's single bloodiest massacre (see for yourself in Book 10, lines 34-164). According to our hero, a race of flesh-eating monsters is responsible for the unprovoked slaughter of Odysseus' men. But what really happened? And why does he explain it so poorly?