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The Magnus Archives Podcast Transcripts

Rusty Quill · 400 episodes with transcripts

“Make your statement, face your fear.” The Magnus Archives is an award winning weekly horror fiction audiodrama podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird.

Spoken has transcripts of 400 The Magnus Archives episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from February 27, 2025.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1095138637/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest The Magnus Archives transcripts

The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

February 27, 2025

Jonathan Sims (0:07)

Rusty Quill presents. The Magnus Protocol.

Episode 31, Compartmentalizing.

Billie Hindle (1:23)

That's Colin, isn't it?

Ryan Hopevere-Anderson (1:25)

Don't touch it.

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