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The Lovecraft Investigations

Ep. 5 – The Whisperer in Darkness

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 32 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 Henry Akeley……………………………..David Calder Parker..........................................Phoebe Fox Mystery woman……………..............Nicola Stephenson Male voice……................……………Ferdinand Kingsley 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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Monday the 24th of June. I know who they are. I know who's doing this, who's responsible

0:11.8

for it. Finally I understand what this is all about. They want me to keep quiet. They

0:19.2

think I'm sympathetic to the cause and they think that I'm scared of them. But I'm not.

0:24.3

I'm not going to keep quiet. I'm going to blow the whole thing wide open. They've been

0:31.3

lying to everyone for long enough, scoffing around in the shadows. But what they're trying

0:37.6

to do. I can't allow it. Somehow I've got to stop them. If anyone is listening to this

0:46.8

that I've failed. But it's not over. I've written down everything I know and I've said

0:52.1

to some while I trust that person will know what to do with it. One way or another, this

0:59.3

is going to end. That is the last recording Henry Ackley made. To the best of our knowledge

1:07.0

he disappeared sometime that week. At this point in the story it's probably worth recapping

1:13.3

what we know. Henry Ackley disappeared from his home on the edge of Rindlesham Forest

1:18.1

in Suffolk somewhere around the end of June 2019. Prior to that he had been trying to

1:25.0

get in touch with Eleanor Peck and he left her a voicemail that seemed very out of character

1:30.2

two months after his disappearance. Henry claimed that something was coming to his house

1:36.3

at night and trying to get in. That same something or things allegedly killed several of Henry's

1:42.6

dogs. Henry had a shortwave radio set up in his home and he used it to tune into an infrequent

1:52.0

pre-recorded broadcast that features what sounds like the voice of a child reading out letters

1:58.8

in an ancient language called inoculum. The letters spell the word Babylon and we've gathered

2:06.8

that this refers to some kind of occult ritual. A summoning known as the Babylon working which

2:13.8

was devised by Dr John D in the 1500s and replicated by Alistair Crowley and by the rocket

2:20.1

engineer Jack Parsons. Henry was a member of an occult group with Amelia Fennor who we

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