Ep 8 - The Haunter of the Dark

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The stress of the investigation is taking a heavy toll on the team. Disharmony grows; an unwise decision is made and key understanding of the situation is challenged. 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 Marcus Byron - Ben Crowe Eleanor Peck - Nicola Walker Victoria Ness - Catherine Kanter Caroline Morse - Kate Isitt Wilberforce Ashington-Heath - Rufus Wright 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.
0:05.3	I think we follow the trail because what else is there?
0:07.7	Not following the trail?
0:09.8	Following the discussion in the studio, Marcus Byron and Ellen Appet could go on their
0:13.4	separate ways.
0:15.0	Kennedy and I looking for a change of scene had decamped to the coffee place across the road
0:19.2	to talk things over.
0:20.2	Isn't this just following the yellow brick road to more crazy, dangerous bullshit?
0:23.7	All of a sudden.
0:24.7	I thought the plan was to bring these people to account.
0:26.9	Yeah it is, but which people to account for what?
0:29.3	Well you have the next leader of the government involved in an occult conspiracy that is near
0:32.8	to fascism.
0:33.8	You can't prove it.
0:34.8	We have Robert Blake's notebook.
0:35.8	Yeah, but even if there was a way to prove it was genuine, which a decent lawyer would
0:39.8	absolutely argue it wasn't, what does it actually prove?
0:43.4	To someone who hasn't seen what we've seen, that book reads like the ramblings of a lunatic.
0:47.0	They murdered Theo Martin to get that book.
0:48.8	Yes, but we can't prove that either.
0:51.0	Look, Robert Blake devoted his life to exposing these people as did Edwin Lillibrich and neither
0:56.4	of them got close and they were respected journalists at the time when that still meant
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