Ep. 6 – The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

H.P. Lovecraft’s tale continues: In search of Dexter’s experiments. Cast includes Barnaby Kay, Jana Carpenter, Alun Armstrong, Adam Godley, Nicola Walker, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Bazeley, Samuel Barnett, Richard Cordery, Harry Kay, Penny Downie, Madeleine Potter, Phoebe Fox, Ben Crowe, Nathan Osgood, Susan Jameson, Samantha Dakin, Alex Lanipekun and Cherrelle Skeete. Producer: Karen Rose Director/Writer: Julian Simpson Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas Production Coordinator: Sarah Tombling Music by Tim Elsenburg A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4

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0:12.0	So I'm on my way to a place called the Devil's Reef trailer park.
0:16.0	According to my new friend Alice in the records office,
0:19.0	Charles Dexter Ward owned a trailer there.
0:21.0	If I'm right, this is the place where he moved all his books
0:24.0	and his experiments to when he cleared everything out of the house
0:27.0	on the prospect street.
0:29.0	Okay, here we go.
0:33.0	You could pretty easily miss that sign,
0:35.0	which would be kind of a shame because it's actually a cool sign.
0:38.0	It's a little faded, but from what I can make out,
0:41.0	it seems to be a hand-painted thing.
0:43.0	Almost like an old-fashioned carnival sign.
0:46.0	And it shows a figure sitting on the rock in the middle of the ocean.
0:50.0	The figure isn't quite a devil.
0:53.0	It looks more like some kind of evil looking amphibian dude.
0:56.0	Like the creature from the Black Lagoon.
0:59.0	No idea what that has to do with the trailer park.
1:02.0	Okay, we're clear.
1:07.0	I'm on my own today.
1:09.0	George Sheppley said he had a librarian stuff to do
1:11.0	and I called Ezra Weedon, but I got his voice mail, so.
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