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The podcasters’ investigation is reaching an end - what happened to Charles Dexter Ward? Stars Jana Carpenter and Barnaby Kay.

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, London. Are the two events connected?

What happened to Charles Dexter Ward?

Kennedy Fisher …… Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood …… Barnaby Kay
Ezra Weedon …… Alun Armstrong
Warden …… Ben Crowe

Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg

A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.

14 minutes

Last on

Thu 31 Mar 202200:00

Broadcasts

  • Wed 17 Jun 202019:45
  • Wed 30 Mar 202218:00
  • Thu 31 Mar 202200:00

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