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Ep. 5 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth

"Harlequin": Eleanor Peck has a stark warning for Heawood and Kennedy, but is it too late?

A foggy seafront town where something's coming from the water. An ancient cult, a stranger with a bandaged face and a body in a shallow grave. The story continues.

True-life mystery podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher return and this time the story is Kennedy Fisher.

A simple investigation into the disappearance of a young man from a mental health facility has taken them from Rhode Island to Iraq, to the Suffolk countryside – as they realised that everything uncovered in season one threaded through to season two. But towards the end of 'The Whisperer In Darkness', the investigation turned inward as Kennedy discovered a possible family connection to the uncovered conspiracy. And evidence forces Heawood to question Kennedy’s account of her time in Iraq. As Kennedy heads off to Innsmouth, to look into her apparently spooky ancestry, Heawood is going to Iraq to find an answer to the most disturbing of all questions; could Kennedy be a killer?

Both make life-changing discoveries as the two investigations come together, just as the Coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the world.

Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter star in writer/director Julian Simpson’s H.P. Lovecraft inspired universe.

Episode Five: "Harlequin"

MATTHEW HEAWOOD ................Barnaby Kay
KENNEDY FISHER............................Jana Carpenter
ELEANOR PECK................................Nicola Walker
CASEY..................................................Kyle Soller
JASPER.................................................Steven Mackintosh
WILMARTH.........................................Mark Bazeley
MELODY CARTWRIGHT.................Karla Crome
ZADOK ALLEN..................................Walles Hamonde

SOUND.....................................................David Thomas
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR.......Sarah Tombling
PRODUCER..............................................Karen Rose
MUSIC........................................................Tim Elsenburg

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Julian Simpson
A Sweet Talk Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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