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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Season 2 of The Marlow Murder Club.

For actor Jo Martin, returning to Marlow for a second season of The Marlow Murder Club felt like returning to a new family. And for her character, dog walker turned sleuth Suzie Harris, a new family is being forged with her friends Judith and Becks. In this conversation, we talk with Jo about drawing on her real-life experiences as a mother, embracing the beauty of Marlow, and grappling with themes of parenthood, friendship, and of course, murder.

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0:27.1	Like the three legs of a stool hold up the entire structure, the three friends of the
0:32.1	Marlowe Murder Club each shine in their own way.
0:35.2	Judith with her cryptic clues and imaginative reasoning.
0:38.7	Bex with her know-how of navigating the world of lords and ladies, and Susie, the single-parent
0:44.2	dog walker who knows the locals and shortcuts around town.
0:48.0	And this season, Susie Harris, isn't messing around.
0:52.0	You killed him.
0:53.4	Sorry.
1:30.3	I think you opened a safe that day and you found the new will. And it still gave you nothing. So you got rid of it, tore it up. And then you went downstairs and pushed that cabinet onto your dad. No. The man who didn't believe in saving the planet, who didn't believe in you. No, I was upstairs when he died. Yeah, at some point, but how do we know that's where you were when the cabinet was pushed onto your dad? But Susie has more to worry about than just solving murders. I got a book I want to give you. Oh, the places you'll go. What's that? Yeah, it's a Dr. Sue's story about all the places you'll go to in your life. Mom, I'm going to Manchester.
1:32.3	Zeta, that's for her.
1:33.3	It's just up the M6?
1:35.3	Well, it's not just about the...
1:37.3	Uni, it can be really intense.
1:40.3	I know, Mom, it's just... I am 18 now.
1:43.3	That's not that old. It's old enough to leave home. This Mom, it's just, I am 18 now. That's not that old.
1:44.6	It's old enough to leave home.
1:47.1	This season, Susie goes the extra mile to follow up on clues, even when it means putting
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