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4 Extra Debut. A man vanishes from a secure psychiatric ward and his psychiatrist murders someone – coincidence? Starring Jana Carpenter.
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins 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
Charles Dexter Ward …… Samuel Barnett
Doctor Willett …… Mark Bazely
Claire Rushmore …… Madeleine Potter
Sylvester Birtwhistle …… Nathan Osgood
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
Producer: Karen Rose
Director/Writer: Julian Simpson
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.
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Mon 25 May 202019:45BBC Radio 4- Mon 7 Mar 202218:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 8 Mar 202200:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
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