The Haunter of the Dark: Episode 10

Summary

The Lovecraft Investigations – The Haunter of the Dark: Episode 10

Podcast: BBC Radio 4
Release Date: October 16, 2023
Summary by Podcast Summarizer

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Episode Overview

In this thrilling season finale, the investigative team delves deep into the heart of witchcraft, occult rituals, and covert government intrigue, culminating in a tense showdown inside a supernatural church caught between realities—the "breach." As they confront Nazi antagonists and uncover chilling artifacts, the team's alliances fray and reality itself seems uncertain. The episode is laced with Lovecraftian horror, unresolved mysteries, and a sense that not everything is as it seems, setting the stage for further investigations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Descent into the Crypt and Church (01:00 - 04:00)

• Kennedy and Victoria explore a ruined, dust-cloaked crypt beneath a church. Sunlight oddly filters in, despite their knowledge they should be "underwater, beneath the seabed" (02:45).

• The presence of cats, decaying furniture, and a mysterious, non-Christian symbol—a near-ankh or Egyptian cross—suggests this is no ordinary sacred site.

  "The weirdest thing is the light. Warm sunlight streaming in through these huge filthy windows all along one side. In theory, we're underwater, beneath the seabed, actually, but there's sunlight."
  – Kennedy Fiser (02:45)

2. The Mystery of the Breach and Occult Books (05:09 - 06:18)

• In the church vestry, the team finds shelves of forbidden tomes, including Lieve Vonnen Kult Den Guhl Unau, Divermis Mysterious, The Book of Zian, and—critically—the Necronomicon.

• Victoria warns against contact:

  "Even touching it, a really bad idea. The department had specialists for stuff like this. Full metaphysical hazmat gear that works. You don't want to accidentally set eyes on the wrong thing in a book like this. It's all memetic viruses, brain diseases in linguistic form."
  – Victoria Ness (06:00)

• This area, possibly the seat of witchcraft in medieval Dunwich, is believed to have played a pivotal role in “the breach.”

  "I reckon this was their base of operations."
  – Victoria Ness (03:40)

3. Tensions with Armed Opponents & Internal Doubt (02:31 - 05:01, 07:00 - 07:41)

• Outside, Matthew, Eleanor, and Marcus surveil their adversaries—Caroline Morse, her brother, and “armed Nazis.”

• Internal group tension emerges; Eleanor and Victoria exchange biting banter and disagree on next steps.

  "One rule. Anyone who didn't walk in there with us does not walk out again. Is that clear?"
  – Victoria Ness (02:31)

4. Exploring the Church Tower and Encountering Reality Distortion (07:41 - 09:43)

• The team climbs into the church tower and peers out, seeing a fog-shrouded town that is, confusingly, not Dunwich. Victoria calls it “the dreamlands,” a nod to Lovecraftian alternate realities.

  "I said we were in a breach... Marcus calls it the dreamlands."
  – Victoria Ness (08:43)

• They find human remains: a skeleton, apparently struck by lightning, referencing Lovecraft’s character Robert Blake.

  "It's almost like he's been struck by lightning. That's how Robert Blake supposedly died."
  – Kennedy Fiser (09:29)

5. Discovery of the Artifact Keeping the Breach Open (10:39 - 12:03)

• In the tower, they discover a strange, gold-hued box and inside it, a “dark crystal with strange red veins.”

• The crystal provokes vivid, nightmarish visions in Kennedy.

• Victoria identifies it as the focal point maintaining the breach between worlds.

  "This is what they were after. I suspect it's what's been keeping the breach open."
  – Victoria Ness (11:51)

• Decision: Victoria elects to take the object, despite warnings and its mind-warping effects.

6. Sudden Confrontation and Chaotic Escape (12:10 - 15:00)

• As the artifact is removed, reality fragments: Eleanor exhibits disturbing symptoms, and adversaries corner the group.

• A tense standoff occurs, with threats and confusion over allegiances.

  "Hand me the box you stole or I'll slit his throat."
  – Victoria Ness (14:21)

• Amid chaos, the artifact vanishes and the church seemingly dissolves from around them.

• Marcus Byron is left behind—or is he? The notion of being "trapped in the breach" is upended by Victoria:

  "Oh, no, no, no, no. He's not stuck in there with them. They're stuck in there with him."
  – Victoria Ness (15:12)

7. Aftermath, Amnesia, and Unanswered Questions (15:32 - 17:44)

• Eleanor is extracted, but suffers memory loss regarding the events inside the breach. She also appears to have assumed another identity, “Mary,” while inside, as referenced by others and by past audio.

• The artifact is gone—spirited away by Victoria, who herself has disappeared.

• Marcus remains missing, but Kennedy hints at his potential return—marked by mysterious wet footprints and the scent of “old tobacco and oud” in her flat (16:18).

  "I think Marcus got out of there. I'm just hoping he left Caroline and Wilberforce behind."
  – Kennedy Fiser (16:26)

• A media storm swirls around missing Nazi associate Wilberforce Ashton Heath; Department of Works whistleblowers seem poised to take him down further.

8. Setting Up What’s Next (17:44 - 18:24)

• The investigative team is now “off the grid,” operating out of Haywood’s flat after studio equipment was confiscated.

• They’re contacted by a police inspector, John Legrasse, hinting at a new direction for future episodes.

  "We've been contacted by a police inspector called John Legrasse. He thinks he might have something that's up our street."
  – Matthew Haywood (17:50)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Any more armed Nazis show up, maybe give us a whistle or something?"
  – Eleanor Peck to Victoria Ness (05:01)

• "Try not to look at anything that makes you go insane."
  – Victoria Ness (08:18)

• "If it wasn't real, it wouldn't be dangerous."
  – Victoria Ness (08:55)

• "This is why I'm glad to be an only child."
  – Victoria Ness (07:28)

• "We could, of course, try to ask Victoria, but she seems to have vanished into thin air."
  – Matthew Haywood (17:26)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:00 – Entering the crypt and encountering mysterious light
• 02:31 – External tension: plans and orders for handling adversaries
• 03:20 – Discovery that the church is likely not Christian and may be the witches' former base
• 05:09 – Finding the vestry with its forbidden books
• 06:00 – Victoria explains the dangers of the Necronomicon and similar tomes
• 07:41 – Ascending the tower and looking out on the “dreamlands”
• 09:29 – Discovery of the incinerated skeleton; link to Lovecraft
• 11:09 – Discovery of the breach-keeping crystal
• 12:27 – Kennedy suffers migraine after exposure to the artifact
• 14:21 – The tense standoff: hostages, threats, and artifact handover
• 15:07 – Marcus is left in the breach; Victoria’s ominous reversal
• 16:18 – Kennedy’s eerie post-mission experience: clues Marcus is alive
• 17:50 – Contact from Inspector Legrasse; set-up for next investigation

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Final Reflections

This episode ties up many narrative threads from the season, with the team’s incursion into the breach leading to supernatural danger, personal revelations, and the ambiguous fate of Marcus Byron. The encounter with “the dreamlands,” the mysterious artifact, and the shadow of Nazi occultism evoke classic Lovecraftian themes, while modern conspiracy and government secrecy remain ever-present. Though many questions remain unanswered—particularly regarding Eleanor's possession/disassociation and the true function of the breach artifact—the door is left open for the next investigation.

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End of summary.

Transcript

[Matthew Haywood]

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[Kennedy Fiser]

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[Victoria Ness]

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[Kennedy Fiser]

as we moved further into the crypt, we became aware of dim light leaking into the space at the far end of the room. Narrow dirt covered windows were positioned high up at what would once have been street level. Somehow sunlight seemed to be fighting its way through the grime, illuminating the dark shapes of old barrels, rotting crates, and dilapidated furniture, all covered in hundreds of years worth of dirt and dust.

[Victoria Ness]

Oh. What?

[Kennedy Fiser]

Something moved.

[Victoria Ness]

A cat.

[Kennedy Fiser]

How did a cat get down here?

[Victoria Ness]

Well, it won't be alone. There are always cats. I think that door leads upstairs.

[Kennedy Fiser]

I looked where she was pointing. At the end of the crypt, a black archway led out and I could just make out the shape of more stone steps leading upwards.

[Matthew Haywood]

Meanwhile, I was crouched in the undergrowth in the woods on top of the cliff with Eleanor Peck and Marcus Byron. We were doing our best not to be seen by some unwelcome new arrivals.

[Eleanor Peck]

Shit. Are you okay?

[Victoria Ness]

I think I'm getting cramped.

[Eleanor Peck]

Shh.

[Victoria Ness]

Is it. It is.

[Matthew Haywood]

What a shithole.

[Victoria Ness]

It's a fixer upper, Billy. A nice little hobby for you when your political career hits the pits.

[Matthew Haywood]

I hardly think that's likely.

[Victoria Ness]

I think you'll find that's up to me.

[Eleanor Peck]

Now, the guys who beat me up, have they gone in already, do you think?

[Victoria Ness]

I do think, but they're not coming out again. Are you lot ready?

[Eleanor Peck]

Yep. Yep. Jesus. Some hardware.

[Victoria Ness]

One rule. Anyone who didn't walk in there with us does not walk out again. Is that clear?

[Kennedy Fiser]

Oh, wow.

[Victoria Ness]

Yeah.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Okay, so we've stepped into the, I think it's called the nave of the church. And it's big, as you can probably hear, everything is covered in dust and cobwebs the pews, the altar at the far end, the pulpit. And the weirdest thing, aside from the cats, the weirdest thing is the light. Warm sunlight streaming in through these huge filthy windows all along one side. In theory, we're underwater, beneath the seabed, actually, but there's sunlight.

[Victoria Ness]

Look at this.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Victorianess is pointing to the cross above the altar. Or at least it should be a cross, but it isn't.

[Victoria Ness]

It might be Egyptian. It looks a bit like an ankh, but not quite. I haven't seen this before. Certainly not Christian.

[Kennedy Fiser]

So are we thinking that this church was repurposed at some point?

[Victoria Ness]

That's exactly why the story of the Necronomicon arriving in Dunwich in the 12th century. Cover of witches latching onto it, wreaking destruction on the town. I reckon this was their base of operations.

[Matthew Haywood]

Okay, what's the plan?

[Eleanor Peck]

I'm working on it.

[Matthew Haywood]

We'd watched Caroline Morse and her brother and several armed men enter the dilapidated house. Now we had to decide what we were going to do. We have to go in there.

[Victoria Ness]

We really don't.

[Eleanor Peck]

You saw all the guns, right?

[Matthew Haywood]

Kennedy and Victoria are in there.

[Eleanor Peck]

Yeah, well, I'm not worried about Victoria.

[Victoria Ness]

We need to call someone.

[Eleanor Peck]

Yep.

[Matthew Haywood]

Who you calling?

[Eleanor Peck]

One sec. It's me. Yeah, we found it. Kennedy and Ness are inside somewhere. We've just watched a bunch of armed Nazis follow them in. No, he's with me. Let alone the Peck is here, too.

[Matthew Haywood]

Is that Parker?

[Eleanor Peck]

Well, he wants to go charging in like Indiana Jones.

[Matthew Haywood]

Let me talk to her.

[Eleanor Peck]

Yeah, I'm worried he's not stable.

[Victoria Ness]

I'm worried none of you are stable.

[Eleanor Peck]

It's a breach. It has to be. So we should. I know that. Are you sure?

[Matthew Haywood]

Tell her I'm going in and I don't need her permission.

[Eleanor Peck]

Did you hear that? Yeah. All right, then. I'll call you after. Come on, then. For the record, I think this is a bad idea.

[Victoria Ness]

You're going in there?

[Eleanor Peck]

We're going in there.

[Victoria Ness]

I'm not going in there.

[Eleanor Peck]

Fine. Wet out here then. Any more armed Nazis show up, Maybe give us a whistle or something?

[Kennedy Fiser]

Behind the altar there's a small room.

[Victoria Ness]

It's called the vestry.

[Kennedy Fiser]

There's a desk in here. And floor to ceiling bookshelves.

[Victoria Ness]

Jesus.

[Kennedy Fiser]

What?

[Victoria Ness]

These books. Lieve vonnes Kult den guhl unau.

[Kennedy Fiser]

They don't look that old.

[Victoria Ness]

They're old. Not as old as the church. So this is our first proper evidence that people have been here since it became part of the breach. These are some nasty books. Divermis Mysterious.

[Eleanor Peck]

Oh, wow.

[Victoria Ness]

The Book of Zian.

[Kennedy Fiser]

What's that?

[Victoria Ness]

This is one of the books Madame Blavatsky referred to in her theosophy writings. It's widely assumed she made it up, but here it is. Is that. Don't touch that.

[Kennedy Fiser]

But it is, isn't it?

[Victoria Ness]

The Necronomicon? Yes. Looks old enough to be the original one that was brought to Dunwich. And even touching it, a really bad idea. The department had specialists for stuff like this. Full metaphysical hazmat gear that works. You don't want to accidentally set eyes on the wrong thing in a book like this. It's all memetic viruses, brain diseases in linguistic form.

[Kennedy Fiser]

So is this what Caroline Morse and her brother are looking for?

[Victoria Ness]

No. No. I mean, I'm sure it's a bonus, but they could get their hands on a copy elsewhere. Whatever they're looking for, we haven't found it yet.

[Matthew Haywood]

By this point, we had found the entrance to the cellar and found the wide stone staircase that wound down through the darkness.

[Victoria Ness]

I hate you guys for making me do this.

[Eleanor Peck]

No one made you do anything.

[Matthew Haywood]

Don't you want to see whatever's there?

[Victoria Ness]

No. I want to be at home. Cosy academia.

[Eleanor Peck]

Yeah, I'm sorry about that.

[Victoria Ness]

You'll be even sorrier when you have to drag my lifeless corpse back up all these bloody stairs.

[Matthew Haywood]

We've got another thing coming.

[Victoria Ness]

It's think. Not think.

[Kennedy Fiser]

What thing?

[Victoria Ness]

Doesn't make any sense in the construction.

[Matthew Haywood]

Of course it does.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Another thing coming.

[Victoria Ness]

The common fray. I'll explain it to you on the

[Kennedy Fiser]

other side of the bridge.

[Matthew Haywood]

I'm not setting foot on that bridge.

[Eleanor Peck]

You go. I'll wait here.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Oh, God, I.

[Victoria Ness]

I'm walking across. If this pathetic little worm is not right behind me, shoot him in the head. This is why I'm glad to be an only child.

[Kennedy Fiser]

On the other side of the nave from the vestry, we found another small door. This led onto a narrow staircase that wound up the inside of the church tower. With nowhere else to search, we started to climb. At the top of the tower was a small room, maybe 15ft square. And at the center of each wall, there was a tall, narrow louvered window. Sunlight was streaming in from one side, illuminating the cloud of dust we had kicked up. When we opened the door, the glass in these windows was just as dirty as it had been downstairs, but the windows themselves were lower, so it was possible to see out.

[Victoria Ness]

Careful. Try not to look at anything that makes you go insane.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Seriously?

[Victoria Ness]

Pretty much.

[Kennedy Fiser]

I hesitated, but I couldn't resist a peek out of the window? It doesn't make any sense. It's like fog. But then where's the sun coming from? And there are shapes, like rooftops. I think it's a town. Dunwich.

[Victoria Ness]

Not dunwich.

[Kennedy Fiser]

I thought you said we were in medieval dunwich.

[Victoria Ness]

I said we were in a breach. This building probably belongs to medieval dunwich. But what you're seeing out there. Marcus calls it the dreamlands.

[Kennedy Fiser]

It's not real.

[Victoria Ness]

If it wasn't real, it wouldn't be dangerous. I think this is. Ow.

[Kennedy Fiser]

What the. Oh, Jesus. I thought I had kicked an old sack of something, but when I looked down, I saw that what had looked like a sack was actually a suit of clothes badly degraded. And within the suit, a skeleton curled up in the fetal position.

[Victoria Ness]

That doesn't bode well, does it?

[Kennedy Fiser]

Was he trapped up here?

[Victoria Ness]

No. At least that's not what killed him. Looking at the charring on the bones,

[Kennedy Fiser]

it's almost like he's been struck by lightning. That's how Robert Blake supposedly died.

[Victoria Ness]

Oh, there's a pocket watch. Eml.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Edwin m. Lillybridge.

[Matthew Haywood]

You've already heard Kennedy describe the bridge we had to cross to get into the church. What I would love to describe but can't do justice to is Eleanor Peck's face when she saw it.

[Victoria Ness]

Okay, well, the chief Nazi was right. I'm not walking across that.

[Matthew Haywood]

He wasn't the chief nazi.

[Victoria Ness]

She is hardly the point.

[Eleanor Peck]

You want to go inside, we have to cross the bridge.

[Victoria Ness]

I don't want to go inside.

[Eleanor Peck]

You don't want to hang around out here either. Trust me.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Why?

[Matthew Haywood]

What's out here?

[Eleanor Peck]

It's a breach. Could be anything along at any moment.

[Victoria Ness]

I don't feel so good.

[Eleanor Peck]

Eleanor. He's right. She's not making excuses. Look at her.

[Matthew Haywood]

Eleanor had gone very pale, her face clammy, her eyes unfocused.

[Eleanor Peck]

You with me? I thought this might happen. We need to get her in there.

[Matthew Haywood]

Why? What's going on?

[Eleanor Peck]

She's not herself. She hasn't been for some time.

[Kennedy Fiser]

In the center of this small room, there was a weirdly shaped stone pillar about 4ft high. The sides of the pillar were covered in strange carved symbols. On top of the pillar, dead center, was a small box. The dust on here was so thick that we had both missed the object. At first glance, I had thought the box was made of gold, but the metal was duller than that and a shade that I hadn't seen before. It was decorated with more strange, sinister engravings.

[Victoria Ness]

Just step back a little.

[Eleanor Peck]

Okay.

[Victoria Ness]

What is

[Kennedy Fiser]

was about 4 inches long, a piece of dark crystal with strange red veins running through was like nothing I'd ever seen. The color seemed to throb in my eyes, and images of dark, robed figures moving through an endless desert filled my head. I saw towers under the sea and vortices of black and purple mist floating in infinite space.

[Victoria Ness]

You okay? Look away. Don't touch. This is what they were after. I suspect it's what's been keeping the breach open.

[Kennedy Fiser]

So what do we do?

[Victoria Ness]

We take it with us.

[Kennedy Fiser]

We headed back down the narrow steps to the ground floor of the church. My head was pounding, my vision soft around the edges. Just looking at that strange crystal for a few moments had brought on the worst migraine of my life.

[Victoria Ness]

Are you okay?

[Kennedy Fiser]

I think I just need some air. Daylight. I need to be back in the real world.

[Victoria Ness]

Okay, well, just down. Boom. Stealing from the church.

[Eleanor Peck]

There's no exactly the sort of thing

[Matthew Haywood]

I expect from the civil service.

[Victoria Ness]

Kennedy. I'm okay. You have no idea what you're doing. Your lost little puppy is making a nasty mess. Give us the help of any more eliminates,

[Eleanor Peck]

what do we do? You don't do anything. We'll take care of this as we. Eleanor? Eleanor. What's happening to her? It's all right. She's gonna be fine.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Ideas?

[Victoria Ness]

Working on it. Come and get it, you thick Nazi.

[Matthew Haywood]

We have to do something.

[Eleanor Peck]

Eleanor, no. Hello? Mary. We've got a spot of bother.

[Victoria Ness]

Who the fuck are these people?

[Eleanor Peck]

Nazis. Mary.

[Victoria Ness]

Ah, the old days.

[Matthew Haywood]

I can't account for what happened next. One moment, Eleanor Peck seemed to be having some kind of epileptic fit on the floor. The next, she and Marcus Byron were moving rapidly away from me into the shadows.

[Victoria Ness]

Marcus.

[Eleanor Peck]

Kennedy. Run.

[Victoria Ness]

Matt. Right. France.

[Matthew Haywood]

Kennedy, you okay?

[Victoria Ness]

Let's go.

[Matthew Haywood]

What about Marcus and Elena?

[Victoria Ness]

What's going on with her? Marcus. Mary, we're leaving. Who's Mary? Go. We got him. I'd stay where you are. All of you. Marcus.

[Eleanor Peck]

I'm okay.

[Victoria Ness]

He won't be for very long. Hand me the box you stole or I'll slit his throat. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Matthew Haywood]

Okay, okay. Let's all calm down. We can talk about this.

[Eleanor Peck]

My fix, man. I can't.

[Victoria Ness]

Stop me. Stop crying. The box, Marcus.

[Eleanor Peck]

Have you got it?

[Victoria Ness]

I've got it.

[Eleanor Peck]

Go.

[Kennedy Fiser]

No.

[Eleanor Peck]

Vic.

[Matthew Haywood]

Go. Kennedy.

[Kennedy Fiser]

That thing is keeping the breach open.

[Victoria Ness]

If we take it out, he knows we're leaving. I will kill him right here.

[Eleanor Peck]

I don't think so.

[Victoria Ness]

Run. Wait. We can.

[Kennedy Fiser]

It's gone. It's all gone.

[Victoria Ness]

This is the house.

[Kennedy Fiser]

I don't Matt.

[Matthew Haywood]

No, I'm here. I'm here. But Marcus.

[Victoria Ness]

If this was even the third or fourth time I'd lost him in a breach, I'd be worried.

[Kennedy Fiser]

But he's trapped in there with.

[Victoria Ness]

Oh, no, no, no, no. He's not stuck in there with them. They're stuck in there with him.

[Matthew Haywood]

Eleanor, you okay?

[Victoria Ness]

Who?

[Eleanor Peck]

Oh.

[Victoria Ness]

One second. What? Wait, where are we?

[Matthew Haywood]

What happened after that? Eleanor was whisked away by Victoria Ness,

[Kennedy Fiser]

along with the weird artifact we found in the church.

[Matthew Haywood]

We've spoken to Eleanor since, and she seems to be back to her old irascible self with no memory of anything that happened after we entered the church. Eleanor has no idea who Mary is, and Victoria Ness claims not to know either. Victoria reckons this was some kind of psychological disassociation. Breach trauma, she calls it.

[Kennedy Fiser]

But we don't buy that. We listened again to the recording of Parker and Eleanor made during the end of the last season. Parker clearly refers to Eleanor as Mary. There's something we're not being told here. Parker, of course, remains unavailable for comment.

[Matthew Haywood]

And Marcus Byron is still missing, supposedly.

[Kennedy Fiser]

But is he, though? A sound in my apartment woke me up the other night and when I walked through, there was no one there. But there were wet footprints on the carpet in the hall and the unmistakable smell of old tobacco and oud hanging in the air. I think Marcus got out of there. I'm just hoping he left Caroline and Wilberforce behind.

[Matthew Haywood]

Speaking of which, there's quite a media storm surrounding the disappearance of Wilberforce Ashton Heath, but the tide of public opinion seems to be rapidly turning against him. A few, well, targeted leaks have got the media sniffing around some rather unsavoury far right organisations that Ashton Heath was in cahoots with. We don't know where this information came from, but we do know a few disgruntled Department of Works employees who might have an axe to grind. So what now? Did we get closure? No, of course we didn't. Neither of us is really clear on what happened in the church or what the mysterious crystal object that Victoria Ness spirited away was. We could, of course, try to ask Victoria, but she seems to have vanished into thin air.

[Kennedy Fiser]

I do feel like it was kind of a win, though. For once we struck a blow at least and put the brakes on whatever the establishment was up to this time.

[Matthew Haywood]

Right. Although it has left us without a studio, most of our equipment is still locked up in a police station somewhere and we're having to work out of my flat using our field equipment. And A laptop.

[Kennedy Fiser]

Lean and mean.

[Matthew Haywood]

It is quite liberating and a lot cheaper.

[Kennedy Fiser]

I do not miss the tech.

[Matthew Haywood]

So we're off the grid, as it were, but I do think that could be an advantage. And we might already have another story. We've been contacted by a police inspector called John Legrasse. He thinks he might have something that's up our street. He's giving a talk at the Royal Archaeological Site Society next week and he's asked if we'd like to come along. Sounds fancy, doesn't it? Just a change of pace would be nice. Something a bit more genteel, maybe. We'll let you know how we get on in the meantime. I'm Matthew Haywood.

[Kennedy Fiser]

And I'm Kennedy Fiser.

[Matthew Haywood]

And this was the Haunter of the Dark.

[Narrator/Announcer]

In the haunter of the dark, kennedy fisher was played by jana carpenter. Matthew haywood, barnaby kaye, marcus byron, ben crow, eleanor peck, nicola walker, victoria ness and laura gibson. Catherine kantor, caroline morse, kate isid. Aramis levesque and ian bartram. Michael maloney, diane netley, abigail thaw wilberforce, ashton heath and sir godfrey tillinghast. Rufus wright. Slide ferdinand kingsley. Sound design was by david thomas. The music was composed by tim elsenberg. It was written and directed by julian simpson. The producer was sarah tombling and the executive producer, producer karen rose. It is a sweet talk production for BBC radio 4 and BBC sounds.

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