Ep. 7 – The Haunter of The Dark

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Eleanor Peck leads a spirited discussion of the team's leads and understanding so far. New names intermingle with old as they share what they know and begin to see patterns emerging. 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: Eleanor Peck - Nicola Walker Kennedy Fisher - Jana Carpenter Marcus Byron - Ben Crowe 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

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts If you're just joining us, I strongly recommend
0:11.2	you go all the way back to the beginning of the case of Charles Dexter Ward and catch
0:15.0	up from there. A lot has happened. An awful lot. What follows is a discussion in the studio
0:23.1	about what we've learned so far. It's not going to make a lot of sense to new arrivals.
0:29.9	If you're still here, welcome back. Following my encounters with Diane Netley and Victoria
0:35.9	Ness and Kennedy and Marcus Byron's unusual trip to the Blake House, we thought now would
0:41.5	be a good time to try to assimilate what we've learned. Kennedy and Marcus Byron had retrieved
0:47.4	Robert Blake's notebook, so he made some copies and went away to read. A few days later,
0:53.3	we all reconvened in the studio, the three of us, John by Dr. Eleanor Peck. What you're
0:59.1	going to hear now is that discussion, which gets a little spirited in places. I'm Matthew
1:07.6	Haywood. And I'm Kennedy Fisher, and this is the Haunter of the Dark. Okay, so what do we
1:16.7	think? Well, it's bollocks. Actually, I was going to say interesting. Should we start with
1:20.8	like a biography, a potted history of Robert Blake? Well, actually, could you do Edwin
1:24.6	Lilliebridge first, because that seems like it sets up Blake? Right, sure. Okay, so you
1:31.3	guys know I went to see Hermes Leveck about Lilliebridge. And now in the past few days,
1:35.2	I've been filling in some of the gaps on him. Okay, so Edwin Lilliebridge was born in 1895
1:41.3	in Camden Town. I couldn't find much about his early life, and it's probably not relevant.
1:45.3	He goes off to fight in the First World War, and he's in the same unit as Edward Lansdale,
1:49.9	which is how come he attends the Melisine ritual. Now, it's unclear exactly what this ritual
1:54.0	was supposed to achieve, but Blake's notebook has some hints, because it refers again to
1:58.4	this thing, the Haunter of the Dark, and Victoria Ness told Matt that they brought through
2:02.4	some kind of entity, the curse of the 20th century that Lilliebridge was talking about.
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