Ep. 1 – The Whisperer in Darkness

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest; folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure. One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher? The duo’s last update patched together frantic updates from Baghdad, as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe… But for now, a new investigation calls. Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe. Once again, the podcast embraces Lovecraft’s crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of The Whisperer in Darkness. Episode One Henry Akeley, an ex-student from Dr Eleanor Peck’s folklore and witchcraft course, has gone missing, and Heawood and Kennedy decide whether or not to investigate. But first, there are threads to tie up from their last mystery podcast 'The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward.' Cast: Kennedy Fisher.........................Jana Carpenter Matthew Heawood....................Barnaby Kay Eleanor Peck.............................Nicola Walker Henry Akeley.............................David Calder Producer: Karen Rose  Director/Writer: Julian Simpson  Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas Production Coordinators: Sarah Tombling & Holly Slater  Music by Tim Elsenburg A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:30.0	We're watching this for a couple of days and they've mostly stayed inside their hotel.
0:32.7	But this morning, they headed out and picked up with all their luggage and a local guide.
0:36.7	I think they're headed up to Mosul to the rooms of Ninevah.
0:40.1	We're gonna go out after them.
0:41.8	But I need you to get me some recording equipment, hurry it up to Mosul, because my machine just gave up the ghost.
0:46.4	I can't find anything reliable here.
0:48.1	Call me back on this number as soon as you get this.
0:50.3	I'm running out to meet a guide.
0:52.3	Ezra wants to work with you, okay?
0:54.4	Call me back.
0:56.1	Are we back in an hour?
1:00.1	Mr. Hayward, if there's a roadway, delete this message, you'll lost.
1:14.1	That was the message I received about a month after my friend and fellow presenter Kennedy Fisher disappeared.
1:21.1	Following the events of the case of Charles Dexter Ward.
1:25.6	As the end of the message suggests, Kennedy was not back an hour later.
1:31.1	I called and her phone was dead and it stayed that way.
1:36.1	I contacted every hospital and hotel in Baghdad looking for her.
1:40.9	I got nowhere.
1:42.6	I even called a few contacts I had in the army and they in turn got in touch with people they knew in Iraq.
1:49.3	But there was no trace of Kennedy.
1:51.6	Some of them expressed doubts that she had ever even been in Iraq.
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