He has an almost emotionless tone that rarely portrays anything other than his seeming regret for taking the job. To be honest, I’d listen to him reading the back of a cereal box. Jonathan Sims’ voice is perfect for narrating these stories. As the series’ progress though, the separate stories start to intertwine and even Mr Sims starts to believe the incredible and realise that things are not what they seem. He discovers strange first hand accounts of occurrences that are frankly unbelievable, at first glance unrelated, and are initially met with skepticism. For some reason, digital audio doesn’t work in the institute, and organise them as best he can.
His main job is to record the old handwritten and typed archives to tape. Almost at once he realises it’s not going to be as easy as he first thought. The previous archivist has passed away leaving the records in shocking disarray. It’s a job he’s not really keen on from the outset. Cynical researcher Jonathan Sims gets “promoted” to the job of head archivist at the mysterious Magnus Institute. I guess imitation is the greatest form of flattery eh? What’s it all about then? I mean, since its release there’s been a glut of podcasts with archives/papers/records in the title that all share a somewhat similar premise. Indeed, it seems that it is the favourite of an awful lot of people too.
The Magnus Archives was the second podcast I ever listened to.
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