The Skies Are Watching: 2. The Man From Kecksburg
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Coral’s adult son, a ufologist named David Vance, meets Heather with her family’s permission, to try to understand why she believes herself to be his mother. He shares the shocking story of what happened the night of Coral’s disappearance.
The Skies Are Watching was the 2024 recipient of the Audio Fiction Award at the Tribeca Festival.
Cast: Heather - Caitlin Stasey Vance - Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts Rodney - David Yow Jana - Caroline Morahan Constance - Guinevere Turner Interrogator - Travis Harmon Dr. Finkel - Brad Griffith
Created and Produced by Jon Frechette and Todd Luoto Music - Lars Koller, Blue Dot Sessions Editing and Sound Design - Jon Frechette Written and Directed by Jon Frechette Production Manager - Kurt Koller Executive Producer - John Scott Dryden
A Goldhawk production for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Well, as maybe you can imagine, we've had a lot of people reaching out to us over the past few weeks. |
| 0:12.1 | People have made all kinds of outlandish claims. |
| 0:15.9 | I think you get that anytime there's something that's spectacular that happens. |
| 0:20.2 | Everybody wants to be a cousin to |
| 0:22.1 | it or whatever you were the first person that came to us with something specific |
| 0:29.1 | other than just stories that you've presented are things that i've been hearing my sister talk |
| 0:35.1 | about she has mentioned you, your brother, your father. |
| 0:41.3 | We just can't figure out where she got any of this. |
| 0:46.7 | Have you had any contact with my sister? |
| 0:48.9 | Absolutely not. |
| 0:51.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:52.8 | Ever. |
| 0:55.2 | Where have you been based for the past 18 months? |
| 0:59.6 | I think I see where you're going with this, |
| 1:01.9 | and I had nothing to do with your sister's disappearance at all. |
| 1:09.2 | I'll give you my itinerary for the last two years, and it'll show you exactly where I was, |
| 1:15.1 | what city, what I was doing even, because I was on a book tour, and often I have speaking engagements |
| 1:22.8 | about UFOs and such. This is David Vance, |
| 1:29.3 | a man whose past would become central |
| 1:32.3 | to unlocking the mystery of what happened to my sister, Tether. |
| 1:36.3 | My birth name was David Vance Goren. |
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