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The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Episode 4

Kennedy researches her ancestry with help from an unexpected quarter.

Kennedy researches her ancestry with help from an unexpected quarter. Stars Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter.

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 podcast investigation continues.

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. 

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 the veracity of 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 answer the most disturbing of all questions; could Kennedy be a killer?

Both Kennedy and Heawood make life-changing discoveries as the two investigations come together and reach a gripping conclusion, just as the Coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the world.

Kennedy researches her ancestry with help from an unexpected quarter. 

MATTHEW HEAWOOD ................Barnaby Kay
KENNEDY FISHER............................Jana Carpenter
ELEANOR PECK.................................Nicola Walker
CASEY...................................................Kyle Soller
DOCTOR WILLETT...........................Mark Bazeley
MELODY CARTWRIGHT.................Karla Crome
ALICE....................................................Jennifer Armour
SLIDE....................................................Ferdinand Kingsley
CHARLES DEXTER WARD.............Samuel Barnett

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

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Julian Simpson

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