The Whisperer in Darkness: Episode 2
The Lovecraft Investigations
BBC
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest; folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure. One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher?
The duo’s last update patched together frantic updates from Baghdad, as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe… But for now, a new investigation calls.
Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe. Once again, the podcast embraces Lovecraft’s crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of The Whisperer in Darkness.
Cast: Kennedy Fisher.........................Jana Carpenter Matthew Heawood....................Barnaby Kay Henry Akeley.............................David Calder Albert Wilmarth.........................Mark Bazeley Perry..........................................Robert Glenister Peniston....................................Ben Crowe Child's voice..............................Edie Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose Director/Writer: Julian Simpson Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas Production Coordinators: Sarah Tombling & Holly Slater Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | An abandoned psychiatric hospital. |
| 0:10.7 | As if staff had simply walked out one day and never returned. |
| 0:14.3 | And the unexplained death of a nursing assistant. |
| 0:17.8 | Mary Glasgow 35 had died when on Judy. |
| 0:20.8 | It wasn't just an altercation. The room was wrecked. |
| 0:23.2 | The curtains were on the floor. |
| 0:24.9 | She didn't just die at her workplace. |
| 0:27.0 | Something strange happened. |
| 0:29.9 | Assume nothing. What happened to Mary Glasgow? |
| 0:33.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | Sunday the 5th of May, 2019. |
| 0:40.2 | It's about 8 o'clock, well, actually, 8.07 in the evening. |
| 0:47.0 | Just getting dark. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, they won't be coming for a while yet, if they come at all tonight. |
| 0:53.8 | I won't know until I hear the dogs. They can smell |
| 0:57.1 | them or sense them, and they start growling and barking. I went back to the police today, |
| 1:03.8 | and once again they took down all the details and said they'd look into it, but they're |
| 1:07.9 | humouring me. They think I'm soft in the head. |
| 1:12.2 | They won't do anything. |
| 1:14.2 | So I'm leaving this account of my own, |
| 1:17.2 | and I'm doing it all on an old tape machine |
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