We are hiring

Freelance writer and researcher

Unexplained is recruiting an experienced freelance writer and researcher to support the Unexplained podcast team in 2023.  

We are looking for an experienced freelancer with a proven track record of writing compelling copy and audio-based content. An extensive knowledge and passion for true crime, horror and related genres is an advantage, with a background in podcasting, audio, or TV, desirable. 

Key duties include:

  • Researching real-life events and relevant stories for inclusion in the show

  • Scripting for broadcast 

  • Filing episodes each week to the team on a strict deadline 

The role will involve working closely with the show’s creator, Richard Maclean Smith to create original long-form audio content to hit the show’s weekly Friday broadcasting schedule. The fee for this is a maximum of £175 per day (dependent on experience) on an ad hoc basis, but expected to be around three or four days per week, on an ongoing basis.

At present requirements for this role are UK based and fully remote. 

The deadline for this role has now passed.

Unexplained is a haunting story-based podcast in which host and creator Richard MacLean Smith explores a different unexplained mystery each week - often to terrifying effect. The weekly show has over 50 million downloads and was voted iTunes best of 2016. 

With each episode, MacLean Smith leads the listener on an atmospheric journey through the strange and eerie, taking in everything from bizarre tales of supposed time-slips, vanishings and UFOs to chilling unexplained deaths and dabblings in the occult. 

Through each carefully crafted story, Unexplained ventures into the space between what we think of as real and what is not, examining the nature of reality, truth and the human condition; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ‘reality,’ whatever that is…

But more than just a show about unnerving and spooky stories, Unexplained is a series that takes Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to heart, always asking the unsettling question: you might well think you know what is or isn’t true, but can you ever be entirely certain?