The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight (Omnibus)

The true reported premonitions of disasters in 1960s Britain.

Richard Goulding reads the Sunday Times bestselling book by The New Yorker journalist and author Sam Knight.

The story follows the real life establishment of a Premonitions Bureau by Dr John Barker in the 1960s to scientifically record and investigate the claims of those who believed they had the power of foresight and could predict an impending disaster.

From coal mining disasters, to the largest train and plane accidents ever recorded (and also to the prediction of Barker’s own death), this is an enthralling and eerie true story of psychology, science and the supernatural – a journey to the most powerful and unsettling reaches of the human mind.

It begins with the moments leading up to one of Britain's most tragic disasters, of those individuals who claim to have predicted it, and meet the psychologist who believed he was on the edge of something momentous.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Katrin Williams.

Producers: Anne Isger and Rick Woska

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2022.