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The Lovecraft Investigations

Ep 5 - The Haunter Of The Dark

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Kennedy learns more about Robert Blake as she continues her investigations in Suffolk. Meanwhile, the phone is ringing in Sible Hedingham. Three years on from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and Heawood's disappearance at Pleasant Green, the Lovecraft Investigations are back and podcaster Kennedy Fisher is following new clues in Julian Simpson’s H P Lovecraft-inspired universe. Cast: Kennedy Fisher - Jana Carpenter Eleanor Peck - Nicola Walker Ian Bartram - Michael Maloney Robert Blake - Ben Crowe Sir Godfrey Tillinghast - Rufus Wright Victoria Ness - Catherine Kanter Written and directed by Julian Simpson Music composed by Tim Elsenburg Sound design: David Thomas Production Assistant: Ethan Elsenburg Producer: Sarah Tombling Executive Producer: Karen Rose A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Transcript

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Less than a mile south of Dunnitch in Suffolk, a national trust land that is given over to

0:11.1

a nature reserve, there is a caravan park.

0:14.7

These are privately owned static caravans, more like cabins, really.

0:19.8

If you're wondering if I'm standing here having flashbacks to the Devil's Reef trailer

0:23.2

park in Providence, you'd be on the money.

0:26.6

But this place is a lot more picturesque.

0:29.4

I'm here to see the manager, and again, we've been here before.

0:33.2

But the manager of this caravan park is a man called Ian Bartram.

0:37.3

He used to be a cop, a detective, with a Suffolk police.

0:41.4

Ian was the lead detective investigating the disappearance of the Blake family in 2010.

0:46.0

That was his last case before he retired.

0:47.9

I've come to talk to him because I still can't shake the idea that Philip Gibson had Robert

0:53.4

Blake's notebook with him when he went to the Blake House.

0:57.0

Maybe it got picked up and thrown into an evidence box somewhere.

1:00.2

Are you coming from London?

1:01.5

I have, yes.

1:02.5

Have you found it all right?

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I've been to Dunnitch before, so.

1:06.3

Ian lives on site.

1:08.1

His wife died a few years back and he didn't do well on his own, so he took this job

1:11.8

to be around people.

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