Creek Static
A night-shift taxi driver's radio starts picking up calls from Deira — dated thirty years ago. One of the voices is asking for him by name.
Supernatural thriller · 8 eps
Stories brewed after midnight.
Serialized audio dramas from the streets of the Gulf — suspense, romance and buried history in ten-minute episodes, poured hot every day.حكايات تُخمَّر بعد منتصف الليل
First on air
The Tailor of Satwa
A true-history suspense serial, stitched from the real 1961 disappearance of the MV Dara.
Karak FM OriginalSeason 01
TheTailorofSatwa
A shop that never closed. A suit no one claimed.
When a young tailor inherits his grandfather's fifty-dirham shop in Satwa, he finds a finished suit, an unclaimed ticket, and a ledger of payments from a customer who should have died at sea in 1961. Each episode pulls one more thread — through old Dubai, the Bombay steamer routes, and a family secret sewn shut for two generations.
EP 01The Unclaimed SuitA shop, a ledger, and a name that shouldn't exist.11:24 ● Free at launch
EP 02Passage to BombayThe Dara's last manifest — and one missing passenger.10:52 Early access
EP 03Stitched ShutSomeone has been paying for the suit. In cash. Every year.12:07 Early access
The format
Small cups. Strong brew.
Built for the commute, the tea break, and the drive home on Sheikh Zayed Road.
The pour
Ten-minute episodes
Every chapter ends on a hook and fits inside a metro ride. Binge a season in one late night, or sip one a day.
The tongue
Told in your language
Each series is produced in English, Hindi–Urdu and Arabic — not dubbed, but performed. Same story, your accent.
The street
Set where you live
Satwa tailor shops. Deira creek dhows. Doha construction camps. Stories from the Gulf you actually know — not a studio's idea of it.
“Every great story in this city was first told over a one-dirham cup at a cafeteria counter, sometime after midnight.كل قصة عظيمة بدأت بكوب كرك
Why “karak”
Karak is how the Gulf tells stories. The cardamom tea sold at every cafeteria window is where taxi drivers, nurses, traders and night-shift engineers trade the day's rumours, heartbreaks and legends.
Karak FM bottles that hour. We write original serialized dramas rooted in the real streets and real history of the region, and pour them out one strong, small cup at a time.
No imports. No translations of someone else's city. Brewed here, for the people who live here.
On the stove
Season one slate
Three more originals follow The Tailor of Satwa on air.
The Pearl Diver's Wife
1938. The oil men are coming, the pearl banks are dying, and one woman on the Trucial Coast is keeping the ledger — and the secrets — of a doomed diving fleet.
Historical saga · 10 eps
Visa Run
Two strangers share a border-run bus to Oman with a bag that belongs to neither of them. They have until the checkpoint to decide what they are to each other.
Dark comedy thriller · 6 eps
From the beta circle
First listeners
“I finished three episodes in the Salik queue and sat in my car outside the house to finish the fourth.”Ayesha — Karama, beta listener
“It's the first show that sounds like my Dubai. My grandfather actually remembered the Dara.”Imran — Bur Dubai, beta listener
“The Hindi–Urdu version isn't a translation, it's a performance. I switched and stayed.”Fatima — Doha, beta listener
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