The Talented Mr. Field: Murder in an English Village

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley follows a young man named Tom, whose deep-seated jealousy and ambition leads him down a very dark path. He wants the jet-set lifestyle his trust-fund friends are living, and he sets out to get it using his intelligence and skill at deception. Tom Ripley is a pretty realistic depiction of a psychopath. To get close to the wealthy people he envies, he puts on a convincing mask of helpful friendliness. But underneath, he’s scheming with every breath—biding his time. And no one is safe around him. Join us for the story of a real-life Mr. Ripley, a man who was good at being charming, but bad at being good. A man who left one person dead, one heartbroken and defrauded, and a pretty little town in shock. Join us for the true story behind the BBC drama The Sixth Commandment--the tale of an aspiring vicar whose pious exterior hid a heart of darkness.

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Sources:
A Plot to Kill by David Wilson
ITV News: https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-08-09/sadistic-killer-admitted-interest-in-the-extremes-of-death
Daily Beast, Nico Hines: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gaslight-killer-ben-field-who-conned-his-elderly-lovers-is-convicted-of-murdering-peter-farquhar
Bucks Herald, Sam Dean: https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/must-read/ben-field-the-baptist-ministers-son-who-became-a-calculated-and-manipulative-murderer-in-maids-moreton-821818
UK Daily Mail, Rory Tingle and Josh White: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6984549/Church-warden-callously-videoed-hallucinating-lecturer-trying-murder.html

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the
0:13.8	true crime campfire.
0:21.5	Patricia Highsmith's novel, The Talented Mr Ripley, follows a young man named Tom, whose deep-seated jealousy and ambition leads him down a very dark path.
0:30.0	He wants the jet-set lifestyle his trust-fund friends friends are living and he sets out to get it using his intelligence and skill at deception.
0:37.0	Tom Ripley is a pretty realistic depiction of a psychopath.
0:41.0	To get close to the wealthy people he envies, he puts on a convincing mask of helpful
0:46.0	friendliness. But underneath, he's scheming with every breath, biding his time, and no one is safe around him.
0:54.2	Join us for the story of a real life Mr Ripley, a man who was good at being charming but bad at being good,
1:00.8	a man who left one person dead, one heartbroken and defrauded, and a pretty little town in shock.
1:07.0	This is the talented Mr Field, murder in an English village. So, campers, for this one, were in the pretty little English village of Maids Morreton
1:28.0	in Buckinghamshire, October 2015.
1:31.9	It was bright and early in the morning when a cleaner arrived to tidy up the house of 69-year-old
1:36.7	university lecturer and novelist Peter Farker and found him unresponsive on the couch.
1:42.4	The house cleaner ran to call 999. and found him unresponsive on the couch.
1:42.7	The house cleaner ran to call 999, the British version of 911.
1:47.0	The dispatcher got an ambulance on the way,
1:49.1	and the cleaner's next call was to Peter's 25-year-old
1:52.2	lodger-slash roommate Ben Field.
1:55.3	Within a few minutes of her call, Ben showed up.
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