Ep. 6 – The Whisperer in Darkness

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 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

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:08.2	My research into Thomas Maaston yielded some interesting results.
0:12.5	Maaston was a member of Amelia Fennner's Coven in Suffolk, along with Henry Ackley,
0:17.7	Tanya Ratcliffe and Walter Brown.
0:20.6	At first glance, Maaston seemed like a minor figure.
0:24.0	He committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 53, which makes him 18 years old when he
0:29.9	participated in the ritual that the Coven supposedly took part in over Christmas in 1980.
0:36.9	Mary Maaston, the little girl who murdered her family in 1935, on the site of what
0:41.7	subsequently became the location of the Blake House incident, was Thomas Maaston's first
0:46.5	cousin once removed.
0:49.5	If you climb higher up that family tree, you find yourself arriving in the town of
0:54.5	Fressingfield in Suffolk, which is about 20 miles away from Mendelstrom Forest.
1:00.7	In 1645, one of Thomas Maaston's ancestors, a woman called Faith Mills, was accused of
1:07.6	witchcraft during which find a general Matthew Hopkins reign of terror.
1:12.9	Mills, probably as a result of being tortured, confessed to having three familiars and was
1:19.0	hanged.
1:21.1	Somehow unlikely it was that any of Matthew Hopkins victims were actually practicing
1:25.4	witches, there's a good chance that Faith Mills was innocent.
1:30.3	Nonetheless, the accusation cast a long shadow over the Maaston family.
1:35.8	It's also interesting for our purposes to note that a few years later, Fressingfield
1:40.8	held a congregational meeting to figure out how to deal with their supposed witch problem,
1:46.7	and one of the visitors to that meeting was a John Tillingast.
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