Case Update 1: The First Wave

The Witch Farm

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Drama, Fiction

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Unexplained power surges, animals going mad and terrifying apparitions… in this bonus case update, Danny discusses your questions and theories after the twists and turns of the first three episodes, talks to a new witness about the electricity drain, and reveals more about the strange events thirty years ago at Heol Fanog.

The Witch Farm reinvestigates a real-life haunting – a paranormal cold case that has been unsolved for nearly 30 years - until now. Set in in the beautiful, remote Welsh countryside, this terrifying true story is told through a thrilling blend of drama and documentary.

Written and presented by Danny Robins, creator of The Battersea Poltergeist, Uncanny and West End hit 2:22 – A Ghost Story, The Witch Farm stars Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Alexandra Roach (No Offence), with original theme music by Mercury Prize-nominated Gwenno. This 8-part series interweaves a terrifying supernatural thriller set in the wild Welsh countryside with a fascinating modern-day investigation into a real-life mystery.

Cast: Bill Rich ...... Joseph Fiennes Liz Rich ...... Alexandra Roach Laurence Rich ..... Jonathan Case Mr Jones ..... Ioan Hefin

Written and presented by Danny Robins Sound design by Charlie Brandon-King and Richard Fox Music by Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Gwenno Researcher: Nancy Bottomley Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard Directed by Simon Barnard

Consultant on the show was Mark Chadbourn, whose book on the case, Testimony, was a huge help with research on this series

Transcript

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:07.0	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.0	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:14.0	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for
0:21.7	Loken. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fondonzlement. This is
0:27.8	the Lukan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.5	Hello and welcome to a special case update episode of The Witch Farm.
0:42.1	So this is a chance for us to do a deep dive on the case and explore some of your questions and theories.
0:47.9	We have come a long way from night one, Bill's post-coital pee and the phantom footsteps. We've had scary smells,
0:57.9	crazed pigs, alleged possession and actual apparitions and we're only three episodes into this series.
1:05.4	So many emails already, lots and lots of great thoughts coming in. Let's kick off with Stuart Fox. So he wonders if there
1:13.4	could have been resentment from the local Welsh farming community to two incomers like Bill and Liz coming in.
1:20.3	Stuart remembers what their neighbour, Wyn Thomas, set to Bill.
1:24.1	Say sorry a lot, you English, don't you? Except for the stuff you should apologise for.
1:28.9	Closing our minds and stealing our land.
1:32.1	And Stuart's asking if Wynne might have deliberately planted the idea that the house is haunted,
1:36.9	to scare them off.
1:38.8	Possibly preparing us for a Scooby-Doo style unmasking of the ghost here,
1:42.5	Wynne would have got a of it too if it wasn't for
1:44.3	those pesky kids. Similarly, Tracy Hobson reminds us that from the late 1970s to the early 1990s,
1:50.3	Welsh nationalist groups were burning holiday homes owned by the English, and anti-English
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