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Kennedy gets a lead from an interview with George Shepley, the librarian from Charles Dexter Ward’s old school.

Julian Simpson's HP Lovecraft-inspired universe as seen through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.

The story began with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?

Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Sylvester Birtwhistle …… Nathan Osgood
George Shepley …… Adam Godley
Contact …… Ben Crowe
Doctor Willett …… Mark Bazely
Charles Dexter Ward …… Samuel Barnett
Barbara Sayers …… Penny Downie

Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg

Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson


A Sweet Talk Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.