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Sascha Martin's Ripping News

Sascha Martin's Ripping News

By: John Arthur Nichol
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Sascha Martin is a young inventor whose genius knows no responsibility. He attends Landfill Public School where, each week during News, he delights and traumatises, horrifies and endangers his classmates in 2M and the entire school community.

Sascha's weekly inventions, and the chaos that follows, have won Landfill Public School the widest renown as a Centre of Excellence in Surprise.

Now in Sascha Martin's Ripping News, the podcast, each boundary-pushing triumph of science, each inevitable, unanticipated consequence and every edge of your seat apocalypse comes appallingly to life, in the author's own humble narration.

Take a few moments in your day. Join Sascha's misadventures with rocket-ships and flying saucers, aliens and dinosaurs, zombies, megafauna and exo-girls, plus his constant, ever critical, always demanding nemesis and not-friend, Mary-Alice Cooper.

It's all great fun until somebody ... Well, we'll get to that.

John Arthur Nichol 2026
Literature & Fiction
Episodes
  • Sascha Martin's Ripping News Episode 1: Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship
    Jul 8 2026

    Flying pies meet screaming teachers high above Landfill Public School, as Sascha Martin’s Rocket-Ship roars into the skies. And into the Office. And into the tuck-shop. And into the volleyball net …

    Readers of all ages, from beginners to preteens to adults, have loved this wild, funny, deliciously silly adventure wrapped in verse that rhymes and Manuela Pentangelo’s beautiful full colour artwork.

    It’s the debut disaster of Sascha Martin, the eight-year old whose genius knows no responsibility … and Show-and-Tell will never be the same again.

    If you enjoyed the episode, check out the book, at John Arthur Nichol's website (https://johnarthurnichol.com/sascha-martins-rocketship/). The visuals are a treat!

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    7 mins
  • Sascha Martin's Ripping News Teaser 3: Sascha Martin's Gobbly Goo Part Three
    Jul 1 2026

    Sascha's snotty genie is out of the bottle, and it's hungry. Or maybe just greedy. It's not granting anyone's wishes, that's for sure.

    Already, Landfill Public School is just a mucusy memory, and the outside world has no idea it's on the menu.

    Can nothing stop this demon of devouring, this monster of munching, this apocalypse of apparel?

    Surely its creator can stop what he's set in motion? Well, about that ...

    Join Sascha, Luca, not-friend Mary-Alice and all of Landfill Public School for the yucky final instalment of Sascha Martin's Gobbly Goo.

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    4 mins
  • Sascha Martin's Ripping News Teaser 2: Sascha Martin's Gobbly Goo Part Two
    Jun 24 2026

    Mary-Alice, 2M drama queen and influencer, has been exposed in ways she never thought possible. Will her image survive this catastrophe?

    But incredibly, it's not just about her.

    All of Landfill Public School is prey to Sascha's insensitive, revolting invention, every secret laid bare as the racing, rumbling, radiating tide of blush-raising ruin spits and gobbles and squelches inexorably on.

    Is this curtains for Landfill, and mucky curtains at that?

    Is it the end for Planet Earth?

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    4 mins
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