Rusty Quill presents The Magnus Archives

Episode 3

Across the street

The Magnus Archives

Statement of Amy Patel, regarding the alleged disappearance of her acquaintance, Graham Folger.

Original Statement given July 1, 2007.

Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.

Statement begins.

I first met Graham two years ago, more or less.

It's hard to say exactly when we first met or even started talking, as we were taking a class together at the time.

I'm sure there was plenty of discussion or interaction before we learned each other's names, but I started my course in September of 2005, so yeah, about two years.

I decided to take a criminology course at Berkbeck University as a way of getting out of the rut with my office job.

I'm an associate compliance analyst at Deloitte, and if you think that sounds boring, well, yeah, it is.

I knew a night course in criminology wasn't going to go anywhere, of course.

Even if I'd finished it, I just had to do something to find a bit of interest in my life.

And it was either that or become an alcoholic, so... sorry, I'm going off topic.

I initially found Graham a bit off-putting, to be honest.

He was a chained smoker and wore far too much deodorant to try and cover the smell.

He was a bit older than me, maybe ten years or so. I never asked his age.

I mean, we weren't that close, but he was starting to grey at the edges of his hair, and you could see that the tiredness on his face wasn't just from missing a single night's sleep.

That's not to say he was bad looking. He had a round open sort of face and quite deep blue eyes, but very much not my type.

He was well spoken in group work, at least when he did speak, and I think it came up once that he'd been to Oxford, though I don't know what college.

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