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The Lovecraft Investigations

Ep. 1 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A foggy seafront town where something’s coming from the water. An ancient cult, a stranger with a bandaged face and a body in a shallow grave. The podcast investigation continues. Podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher return and this time the story is Kennedy Fisher. A simple investigation into the disappearance of a young man from a mental health facility has taken them from Rhode Island to Iraq, to the Suffolk countryside – as they realised that everything uncovered in season one threaded through to season two. Towards the end of 'The Whisperer In Darkness,' the investigation turned inward as Kennedy discovered a possible family connection to the uncovered conspiracy. And evidence forces Heawood to question the veracity of Kennedy's account of her time in Iraq. As Kennedy heads off to Innsmouth, to look into her apparently spooky ancestry, Heawood is going to Iraq to answer the most disturbing of all questions: could Kennedy be a killer? Both Kennedy and Heawood make life-changing discoveries as the two investigations come together and reach a gripping conclusion, just as the Coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the world. Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter star in writer/director Julian Simpson’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired universe. Episode One: "Footsteps" MATTHEW HEAWOOD ................Barnaby Kay KENNEDY FISHER...........................Jana Carpenter CASEY.................................................Kyle Soller JASPER...............................................Steven Mackintosh DOCTOR WILLETT.........................Mark Bazeley CHARLES DEXTER WARD...........Samuel Barnett SOUND....................................................David Thomas PRODUCTION COORDINATOR......Sarah Tombling PRODUCER.............................................Karen Rose MUSIC......................................................Tim Elsenburg WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Julian Simpson A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:04.7

This podcast includes strong language.

0:08.6

If you're joining us for the first time, I strongly recommend jumping back to the beginning

0:12.6

of season one and listening through to where we are now.

0:16.1

So, what is prompted this sudden interest in your ancestry, Charles?

0:20.4

I don't think it's sudden.

0:23.4

Does it seem sudden?

0:25.4

Well, perhaps it's just you and me.

0:29.0

I want to know who I am in the sense that in every sense, I don't think I'm the person

0:36.3

they think I am.

0:37.3

Who is they, people?

0:40.1

You, my family, your family don't know who you are.

0:47.0

My mother did, but she lied.

0:51.7

What did she lie about, Charles?

0:54.0

I was up in the attic and I found something.

1:00.4

She had one of those old files, you know those things that stretch out.

1:04.7

Consteefe?

1:05.7

A birth certificate was in there.

1:09.5

My grandfather, her father.

1:13.3

That's not the name on the birth certificate.

1:17.5

What's the name?

1:20.7

Joseph Carlin.

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