The Haunter of the Dark: Episode 8

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The stress of the investigation is taking a heavy toll on the team. Disharmony grows; an unwise decision is made and key understanding of the situation is challenged.

Three years on from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and Heawood's disappearance at Pleasant Green, the Lovecraft Investigations are back and podcaster Kennedy Fisher is following new clues in Julian Simpson’s H P Lovecraft-inspired universe.

Cast: Kennedy Fisher - Jana Carpenter Matthew Heawood - Barnaby Kay Marcus Byron - Ben Crowe Eleanor Peck - Nicola Walker Victoria Ness - Catherine Kanter Caroline Morse - Kate Isitt Wilberforce Ashington-Heath - Rufus Wright

Written and directed by Julian Simpson Music composed by Tim Elsenburg Sound design: David Thomas

Production Assistant: Ethan Elsenburg Producer: Sarah Tombling Executive Producer: Karen Rose

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Transcript

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0:41.0	I think we follow the trail because what else is there?
0:43.2	Not following the trail?
0:45.1	Following the discussion in the studio,
0:47.2	Marcus Byron and Eleanor Peck had gone their separate ways.
0:50.6	Kennedy and I, looking for a change of scene,
0:52.8	had decamped to the coffee place across the road to talk things over.
0:56.0	Isn't this just following the Yellowbrick Road to more crazy, dangerous bullshit?
0:59.5	Almost certainly.
1:00.8	I thought the plan was to bring these people to account.
1:02.7	Yeah, it is, but which people?
1:04.0	To account for what?
1:05.0	Well, you have the next leader of the government involved in an occult conspiracy that's as near to fascism as...
1:09.3	We can't prove it.
1:10.3	We have Robert Blake's notebook.
1:12.0	Yeah, but even if there was a way to prove it was genuine,
1:14.7	in which a decent lawyer would absolutely argue it wasn't,
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