The Whisperer in Darkness: Episode 6
The Lovecraft Investigations
BBC
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 36 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 Albert Wilmarth…………………………Mark Bazeley Eleanor Peck...............................Nicola Walker Charlotte.....................................Phoebe Frances Brown Henry Akeley……………………………..David Calder Male voice……................……………Ferdinand Kingsley 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
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:38.8 | My research into Thomas Marston yielded some interesting results. |
| 0:43.7 | Marston was a member of Amelia Fenner's Coven in Suffolk, |
| 0:47.3 | along with Henry Akeley, Tanya Ratcliffe and Walter Brown. |
| 0:51.6 | At first glance, Marston seemed like a minor figure. He committed suicide |
| 0:56.0 | in 2015 at the age of 53, which makes him 18 years old when he participated in the ritual |
| 1:03.0 | that the Coven supposedly took part in over Christmas in 1980. Mary Marston, the little girl |
| 1:10.0 | who murdered her family in 1935, on the site of what subsequently |
| 1:13.6 | became the location of the Blake House incident, was Thomas Marston's first cousin once removed. |
| 1:20.6 | If you climb higher up that family tree, you find yourself arriving in the town of Fressingfield in Suffolk, which is about 20 miles away from Wendleston Forest. |
| 1:31.7 | In 1645, one of Thomas Marston's ancestors, a woman called Faith Mills, was accused of witchcraft |
| 1:39.4 | during witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins' reign of terror. Mills, probably as a result of |
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