NEW EPISODE

The second episode of Series 18 is out now. You can listen below, or by downloading the MP3 here. UPHEAVAL (S18 E2) In August 1922, the Watford FC afterlife undergoes a seismic shift. (40 minutes)

Series 18 – OUT NOW

The first episode of Series 18 is ready for your ears. You can listen below, or by downloading the MP3 here. WATFORD BORN AND BRED (S18 E1) In April 2022, during Watford’s terrible relegation season, there’s some good news to tell in Hornet Heaven. (20 minutes)

Hornet Heaven’s 5th Birthday

In July 2016, Colin Mace sat down at a microphone and started to read the first Hornet Heaven story ‘The Turnaround’. I’ll never forget the moment. Colin’s narration was spellbinding. Five years on, there have been 69 Hornet Heaven stories. We’ve covered styles and genres as diverse as supernatural thriller, comedy, radio play, horror, musical, […]

E-Books now only 99p

Now that there’s no VAT on e-books in the UK, we’ve been able to reduce the price of all four volumes of our stories. They’re now just 99p each. They’re on Amazon here: https://is.gd/HHKindle

NEW PAPERBACK OUT NOW

Volume Four of our paperback series is now available to add to your Watford bookshelf. It contains the stories from Series 9, 10 & 11 plus the Cup Final Specials. (There’s also a corresponding e-book.) It’s only available from Amazon. Click here to visit the page for all four volumes.

RIP Trefor Jones

We’re feeling bereft at the passing of Trefor Jones — the historian and statistician who did so much to discover and document the history of Watford Football Club. Trefor compiled the magnificent archive that is http://www.watfordfcarchive.co.uk — which he’s left as an astonishingly rich legacy for all Watford fans. We couldn’t have written our stories […]

THE HISTORY OF REPLICA SHIRTS — article

Series 10 Episode 2 — about replica shirts — was inspired and informed by a sporting history article written by Watford fans Chris Stride and Nick Catley on how, over time, replica football shirts have become adult leisurewear. You can read the paper HERE.

All about Hornet Heaven

HORNET HEAVEN is a narrated comedy drama about supporting a football club for life — and beyond. The series is set in a fictional afterlife paradise reserved exclusively for fans of Watford Football Club. In Hornet Heaven, fans can carry on watching Watford for the rest of eternity. Each episode uses real events and real characters — from the present […]

An Evening In Hornet Heaven

On 28th September 2017, we held a unique event at Vicarage Road. Watford Football Club allowed us to act out one of our Hornet Heaven stories inside the stadium. In our fictional stories, the afterlife paradise for Watford fans exists in a parallel dimension at Vicarage Road. For the event, we thought it would be […]

How to listen to Hornet Heaven

Every episode of Hornet Heaven is free for eternity. You can listen on your smartphone or computer via apps/sites such as iTunes, Audioboom, Deezer, Stitcher, PlayerFM, and acast. You can also listen on Spotify. Alternatively, you can listen right here by clicking here. You even have the option of downloading the episodes as mp3s here. RSS FEED Here’s the […]