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Rubaiyat

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## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Phoebe Fox as Parker
* Steven Mackintosh as 'Jasper'
* Ferdinand Kingsley as 'Slide'
* David Calder as Henry Akeley (archive audio)

* Writer & Director: Julian Simpson
* Production Coordinator: Sarah Tombling
* Sound Designer: David Thomas
* Music: Tim Elsenburg
* Producer: Karen Rose

## Notes and Trivia

* Kennedy gets her geography mixed up when she refers to Alice's murder being investigated by the Rhode Island police. Innsmouth has been established as being in Massachusetts, not Rhode Island.
* The debate about the relevance of the Somerton Man story to this episode is modelled on the real-life debate between Julian Simpson and his producer, Karen Rose. Simpson was keen to tell the whole story in detail but Rose recognised it was mostly tangential to their overall story, regardless of how interesting it might be. Simpson decided to write this disagreement into the dialogue between Kennedy Fisher (who took Simpson's position) and Matthew Heawood (who took Rose's position) and this resulted in the bonus episode, "The Somerton Man".

## References

1. ↑ Miskatonic University Podcast, Episode 215
Park Hotel

**The Park Hotel** is a hotel in London that was used in 2013 as the venue for the cyberterrorist group, the Harlequinade, to meet with the Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU) negotiator, Alice Price. The CTU set up a secure perimeter around the hotel and ordered the evacuation of the 9th floor in advance of Price's meeting with the group in room 903.

The location and room appears to have been chosen by the Harlequinade deliberately as CTU had to place their tactical team behind the perimeter and thus outside of the hotel. As Price noted, if anything did go wrong during her negotiations, the tactical team would be a good few minutes away from rescuing her.

1. ↑ "Kokomo"
Paris

**Paris** is the capital city of France.

The Comte de Saint Germain met Voltaire in Paris in the mid-1750s.

In 1785, a year after his official death, several people reported speaking to the Comte de Saint Germain at a Masonic convention in Paris. Cagliostro claimed to have met Saint Germain at this convention and performed a Templar ritual with him. It is also possible that Obed Marsh returned to Paris in the early 19th century under the guise of 'Major Fraser'. In 1870, Napoleon III set up a commission to investigate Saint Germain. This was headquartered in the Hôtel de Ville in Paris but the building suspiciously burnt down the following year.

Around 1922, Aleister Crowley travelled from Sicily to Paris in the belief that it would be the perfect place to overcome his heroin addiction. In 1925, a meeting of occultists and fascists took place in Paris at the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol. Attendees at this meeting were Crowley, Obed Marsh, Edwin Lillibridge and Ernest Gladwin, and this gathering was captured in the background of a photograph by Man Ray with Alice Prin, Nancy Cunard, André Gide and Pablo Picasso in the foreground. It was at this meeting that Lillibridge fell out with Gladwin and made it his life's mission to expose European fascists within the establishment.

According to Amelia Fenner, there were rumours that Joseph Curwen spent some time in Paris after he left the New Forest Coven.

In 1986, Barbara Sayers travelled to Paris during her search for the *Necronomicon*.

In the 1990s, Aramis Levesque founded his Institute of Paranormal and Parapsychological Research in the city, specifically on the Île Saint-Louis. Matthew Heawood and Melody Cartwright visited the Institute in 2020. Around this time, Heawood was intercepted by John Silence who was searching for Cartwright. Soon after this, Heawood and his friend, 'Jasper', interrogated Silence while still in Paris. Later on, Kennedy Fisher visited Levesque at his Institute in 2022 wanting to know more about Edwin Lillibridge.

Also in 2022, Nakesha Kemp and Sebastian Harcourt attended a reception at the Sorbonne but travelled by train instead of private jet for environmental reasons. Later that same year, Aldrich Kemp met Margot Benoit a hidden basement at the bookstore Shakespeare and Company. Kemp was briefly captured by Benoit and her henchmen but Jane and Catherine Underwood rescued him, killing Benoit's guards and later Benoit herself, although Jane's marksmanship seemed lacking in her sister's opinion.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 TSoI: "Saint Germain"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 THoTD: "Episode 7"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 K. Fisher, voice memo, Paris 2022.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 THoTD: "Episode 4"
5. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 3"
6. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 4"
7. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 5"
8. ↑ TSoI: "Melusine"
9. ↑ WiAK: "Themis House"
10. ↑ WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
11. ↑ WiAK: "Kholat Syakhl"
Samantha Dakin

## External Links

**Samantha Dakin** is an actress who played Alice in “Episode 2” of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. This role was later portrayed by Jennifer Armour in The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Dakin also portrayed the waitress who served Kennedy Fisher and Ezra Weeden in “Episode 5”.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- “Episode 2” (as Alice)
		- “Episode 5” (as Waitress)
Charles Dexter Ward

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## Charles Dexter Ward

### Relatives

Sarah Ward (mother)
Howard Philip Ward (father)
Eliza Tillinghast (grandmother)
Joseph Curwen (grandfather)
Sir Godfrey Tillinghast (great uncle)
Lucy Hawthorne (second cousin)

## Biographical information

### Date of death

January 27, 2016 (personality)March 6, 2017 (body)

## Portrayal

### Portrayed by

Samuel Barnett
Harry Kay (young)

### First Appearance

"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Episode 1"

### Last Appearance

"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Episode 7"

**Charles Dexter Ward** is the titular character of *The Case of Charles Dexter Ward*, who was a young man who investigated his family history and it's links to Joseph Curwen, and was committed by his therapist to an asylum before seemingly "vanishing".
Scotland

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**Scotland** is a country that is part of the United Kingdom in western Europe.

The site of Glamis Castle, in Angus, has long had a fortification in that area. King Malcolm II died at Glamis Castle in 1034. In 1486, the 2nd Lord Glamis betrayed the Ogilvy family to whom he had offered sanctuary from a rival clan. They were confined to a room in his castle and it was bricked up. Their bodies were never found but recent evidence indicates they found their way to the folkloric dimension of Avalon. The present day castle dates back to the 17th century.

James I (and VI of Scotland) was convinced that Elizabeth I and John Dee were using spells from the recently translated *Necronomicon* against his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, while she was imprisoned in Scotland. This led to James breaking up Dee's network of witch covens soon after his ascension to the crown in 1603.

It was while travelling with Mary Lairre on the M90 motorway, between South Queensferry and Perth, that Jonathan Hicks fell victim to chronological elasticity and was pulled from 2017 back to the 1600s where he remained until his death.

In 2017, Libby Ward sought to make use of a portal to Avalon that exists at the end of a corridor on the second floor of Glamis Castle. She convinced fellow American, Carlton Murray, to follow her in so she could spring a trap for Mary Lairre.

During Obed Marsh's effort to summon Azathoth in Pleasant Green in April 2020, the Department of Works chose to misdirect the British Army to deploy its defensive forces to the Isle of Skye, at the Callanish Stones. The Department felt the Army's presence would interfere with their efforts to stop Marsh.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mythos: "Glamis"
2. ↑ Glamis Castle at Wikipedia
3. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 6"
4. ↑ TSoI: "Pleasant Green"
Chapter Two: Themis House

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## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Phoebe Fox as Clara Page
* Tim McInnerny as Mr. Bartholomew
* Ferdinand Kingsley as Aldrich Kemp
* Nicola Walker as Mrs. Boone
* Kyle Soller as Sebastian Harcourt and Florist
* Karla Crome as Nakesha Kemp
* Susan Jameson as Aunt Lily
* Jana Carpenter as Jane and Catherine Underwood, and Kennedy Fisher
* Louise Brealey as Cyclist

Created, written and directed by Julian Simpson
Music composed by Tim Elsenburg
Sound design by David Thomas
Producer Sarah Tombling
Executive Producer Karen Rose
RAF Bawdsey

**RAF Bawdsey** is a former Royal Air Force station situated on the eastern coast in Suffolk.

During the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident on the 26th December 1980, the flight chief for RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, a man called Chandler, contacted RAF Bawdsey about whether they had picked up anything similar to what airmen were seeing in Rendlesham Forest.

## References

1. ↑ See East Anglia Map
2. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 2"
The Vril Society

**The Vril Society** was an extremist, far-right group based in Germany in the 1930s.

The Vril Society held beliefs that were considered extreme and outright unhinged in the eyes of many of their contemporaries. They believed in a race of people who lived on Earth before humans, who had contact with beings from outer space, and who were hiding their spaceships under Antarctica.

The society vanished into obscurity at the start of World War Two but the group was restarted in the late 1990s by a man called Moses Foe, a former associate of Conrad Spijker and member of the Black Windmill. According to Aldrich Kemp, the rebooted Vril Society was put to an end when the Themis Group blew up the subterranean Antarctic headquarters Moses Foe had designed.

## External Links

* Vril at Wikipedia
* Vril Gesellschaft at Wikipedia (German)

## References

1. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 7”
2. ↑ WiAK: “The Black Windmill”
3. ↑ WiAK: “Kholat Syakhl”
Susan Jameson

## External Links

**Susan Jameson** (born 13 August 1941) is a British actress who played Amelia Fenner in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and Lilith Tregowan in Who is Aldrich Kemp? and Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?.

## Performances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- Episode 4 (as Amelia Fenner)

* *Who is Aldrich Kemp?* (as Lilith Tregowan)
	+ All episodes
* *Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?* (as Lilith Tregowan)
	+ All episodes
The Courthouse Tavern

**The Courthouse Tavern** is a restaurant in Providence, Rhode Island.

In George Shepley's opinion, their filet mignon is particularly good. Unfortunately, Kennedy Fisher's dinner with Shepley was cut short when she was kidnapped by him and Barbara Sayers while investigating the disappearance of Charles Dexter Ward.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 8"
2. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 9"
Who is Mary Lairre?

## Synopsis

A recording found by chance by Kennedy Fisher on Matthew Heawood's cloud server at the end of the season.

## Plot

When Matthew Heawood steps out for some fresh air he leaves an audio recorder running and it catches a brief conversation between Dr. Eleanor Peck and Parker. They discuss Peck's potential romantic feelings towards Heawood and the Department's apparent disinterest in dealing with the Azathoth threat.

Parker then reveals that Eleanor Peck is just a cover personality for her partner, Mary Lairre, but one that Lairre is so deeply ensconced in that she no longer remembers having been Mary Lairre. Before this can be discussed any further, Kennedy Fisher's phone call highlights that Heawood has gone missing.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Phoebe Fox as Parker
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher

## Notes and Trivia

* This recorded conversation occurs during the events of "Rubaiyat".
* It is this bonus episode that ties two of Nicola Walker's biggest roles in the Pleasant Green Universe together - her Mythos character of Mary Lairre and her Lovecraft Investigations character of Dr. Eleanor Peck. The idea of deep cover personalities would be explored further with Uncle Dave and Selena Page in Who is Aldrich Kemp?
* This connection between Peck and Lairre would be revisited in "Episode 10" of The Haunter of The Dark.
The Green Children of Woolpit

**The Green Children of Woolpit** is a tale from English folklore.

In the 12th century, two children appeared in the village of Woolpit, Suffolk. They both had green skin and spoke in a language not known to the local villagers. Communication was eventually possible and they claimed to have come from another world.

When relaying this story to Matthew Heawood, Dr. Eleanor Peck presented this story as an example of evidence, for those who believe, of the presence of the *Necronomicon* in the Suffolk area.

## External Links

* The Green Children of Woolpit at Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
Pleasant Green (disambiguation)

Pleasant Green might refer to:

* Operation Pleasant Green, John Grant's nuisance campaign
* "Pleasant Green", the final episode of The Shadow over Innsmouth
	+ "Pleasant Green" transcript, the transcript of the above episode
* Pleasant Green (location), the village in Suffolk
* Pleasant Green (website), Kennedy Fisher's website
The Pleasant Green Universe Wiki

**Welcome to the The Pleasant Green Universe Wiki!**
This wiki is about the radio plays, audio dramas, and podcasts written by Julian Simpson that make up the Pleasant Green mythos or the Pleasant Green Universe.

For more information, you can follow Kennedy Fisher's website: Pleasant Green.

Also, the TV Tropes article on the Pleasant Green Universe provides a detailed list of trivia and other fun facts.

## Important articles

Pleasant GreenThe Blake House IncidentThe NecronomiconKennedy FisherInteractive Maps

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* Episode guide
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The Blake House Incident

The Blake House Incident is the subject of the standalone drama Bad Memories.

In 2004, successful architect Jonathan Blake, his wife Imogen, and their son Matthew mysteriously disappear from their home. Six years later five bodies are found in the cellar of their house. They are identified as Jonathan and Imogen Blake and their son, Matthew; Phillip Gibson, who was on the missing person's register and a woman, identity unknown. Forensics determine that not only were they murdered, but the time of death was 1926. Phillip Gibson was a podcaster whose recordings are found with the bodies.

Rachel Weir, an audio engineer who works with the police, tries to puzzle together the mystery from Gibson's recordings. We find out that the house is haunted by Mary Marston, the ghost of a nine-year-old girl who murdered her whole family with a pair of scissors in 1926, and that she pulled the Blakes, Phillip Gibson, and Rachel Weir back through time and murdered them.
Pleasant Green

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## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Phoebe Fox as Parker
* Kyle Soller as Casey
* Steven Mackintosh as 'Jasper'
* Mark Bazeley as John Silence
* Karla Crome as Melody Cartwright

* Writer & Director: Julian Simpson
* Production Coordinator: Sarah Tombling
* Sound Designer: David Thomas
* Music: Tim Elsenburg
* Producer: Karen Rose
Zorgvlied cemetery

**Zorgvlied** is a cemetery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

When Conrad Spijker survived Alice Boone's assassination attempt 2010, he faked his death by being officially buried at the Zorgvlied. Twelve years later, Spijker's previous assistant, De Jong, laid fresh flowers at the grave shortly before he was murdered. While investigating Spijker's grave at the cemetery, Clara Page discovered the flowers and surmised they were likely a signal to someone.

## External Links

* Zorgvlied at Wikipedia

1. ↑ WiAK: "Themis House"
Robin Hood

**Robin Hood** is a large troll who lived in Sherwood Forest. As a result of being a mythological troll entity, Hood's vocabulary and comprehension skills were quite low. His band of merry men were actually woodland spirits, including his far more articulate lieutenant, Alan-a-Dale.

In 2018, the Department of Works got reports that tourists in the area were being attacked, and possibly eaten. Mary Lairre and Hermione Parker were sent to investigation but were surprised when the reports of a 'troll' were not an online troll as they'd expected, but a real one. The troll and the spirits quickly showed that they were keen to violently attack any who came into the forest. Pressed for time and therefore not able to come to a mutual understanding with Robin Hood or the Merry Men, Parker drove the spirits back into the ground using her Earth magic.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: "Albion"
Tim Elsenburg

**Tim Elsenburg** is a composer who has scored the music for every Pleasant Green audio drama since The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

In 2003, Elsenburg became one of the founding members of the music group, Sweet Billy Pilgrim. In 2010, the group was joined by Jana Carpenter. Elsenburg is the father of The Haunter of the Dark's production assistant, Ethan Elsenburg.

## Production Credits

* The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Music by)
* The Whisperer in Darkness
* The Shadow over Innsmouth
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
* The Haunter of the Dark

## External Links

* Sweet Billy Pilgrim (Tim Elsenburg and Jana Carpenter's band website)
* Tim Elsenburg on IMDb
* Tim Elsenburg on Substack

1. ↑ Sweet Billy Pilgrim at Wikipedia
The Haunter of the Dark Episode 9

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## Synopsis

‘Slide’ helps Kennedy and Ness crack the code. The women lead the way to Suffolk, and a house near Dunwich. The investigation is gathering pace.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Ben Crowe as Marcus Byron
* Catherine Kanter as Victoria Ness
* Ferdinand Kingsley as ‘Slide’
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
The Colonel

**The Colonel** is a former military operative and associate of Aunt Lily.

At the height of his career, the colonel was responsible for leading coups to overthrow despotic African regimes and it is rumoured that he was responsible for the assassination of Pope John Paul I in 1978.

However, by 2022, when Lily approached him in hopes of getting information about Conrad Spijker, she found that he succumbed to mental decline and was now bored and living in a care home in Eastbourne, East Sussex having been put there by his grandchildren.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
Sylvester Birtwistle

**Sylvester Birtwistle** is a realtor in Providence, Rhode Island.

In 2018, he gave Kennedy Fisher a tour of 100 Prospect St, the property that used to belong to Charles Dexter Ward. Since Ward's disappearance in 2017, the property had been on the market. However, despite the house being in a safe, affluent neighbourhood with excellent schools nearby, as well as having all the original fittings and detailing, Birtwistle declared the property unsellable due to its unwelcoming atmosphere.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 1”
Quentin Fisher

**Quentin Fisher** (? - 1589) is an English wizard who was a follower of the cult of Ipqu-Aya.

Quentin Fisher is recorded as being an associate of Sir Walter Raleigh. However, digging deeper into historical archives, Dr. Eleanor Peck discovered that Quentin was also an associate of John Dee and Edward Kelley in England in the 1580s. He was involved in helping them translate the Necronomicon into English as well as participating in Enochian rituals.

At Sir Walter’s request, Fisher left England for America in 1586 and became an early settler of the second Roanoke colony established in 1587. Fisher left behind a daughter and a son. Fisher successfully settled in Roanoke and, in 1589, he was joined there by sea captain, Obed Marsh. With a mutual interest in the Necronomicon and the teachings of Abdul Alhazred, the two attempted to summon Azathoth out of the Dreamlands. However, while the ritual successfully opened a portal, this resulted in the death of Fisher and everyone at the Roanoke colony, with the exception of Obed Marsh.

It appears that Marsh identified some potential in Quentin that led to a connection between Marsh and the Fisher family that would last for centuries to come. After the failed Roanoke ritual, Marsh travelled back to England and sought out the offspring of his late associate. He became intimate with Quentin’s daughter, Mary, and got her pregnant out of wedlock. A year later, Mary died in childbirth with Temperance Fisher, born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1601.

## References

1. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 TSoI: “Saint Germain”
Sarah Tombling

**Sarah Tombling** has worked as a Broadcast Assistant, Production Coordinator and Producer in a number of Julian Simpson’s Pleasant Green audio dramas.

## Production Credits

* “Fragments” (as Broadcast Assistant)
* “The Listener”
* “Bad Memories”
* “Kokomo”
* “Fugue State”
* “Glamis”
* “Albion”
* The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
* The Whisperer in Darkness (with Holly Slater)
* The Shadow over Innsmouth (as Production Coordinator)
* Who is Aldrich Kemp? (as Producer)
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
* The Haunter of The Dark

## External Links

* Sarah Tombling on LinkedIn
* Sarah Tombling on St John's Broadbridge Heath
The Hickstory Podcast

The Hickstory Podcast was an independent, historical investigative podcast created and hosted by Jonathan Hicks. The podcast ran for 122 episodes until it was forcibly shut down by the Department of Works in early 2017.

The podcast, a solo project of Hicks’, focused on a number of issues including historical myths and modern day conspiracy theories. The podcast gained followers in 2016 when Hicks started reporting on the recent disappearance of the village of Pleasant Green. In response to this, the head of the Department of Works, Johnson, put plans in place for Hicks to die in a supposed hit-and-run ‘accident’.

However, Mary Lairre convinced Johnson that Hicks should he recruited instead. Hicks was lured to the Department of Works in the mistaken understanding that he would be interviewing someone about the Pleasant Green Incident. This would have been the podcast’s 123rd episode but this interview never took place and the episode was never released.

As of 2017, the podcast’s website has a message explaining that due to ill health, Hicks was discontinuing the podcast.

1. ↑ Mythos: "Mythos"
University of East Anglia

The **University of East Anglia** is a higher education institute located in Norfolk, England. In October 2022, Theo Martin started his degree in medieval history at UEA but he was murdered in London during the 2022 Christmas/New Year break.

## External Links

* University of East Anglia at Wikipedia

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 1"
Robert Ryan

**Robert Ryan** was a resident of Pleasant Green. He and his wife, Claire Ryan, and daughter, Kelly Ryan, moved from London in 2007, just before John Grant's nuisance campaign, Operation Pleasant Green.

Even before their move out of central London, Robert's demeanour and attitude towards his family was one of irritation and he was quick to anger. Like his wife, he struggled to accept his daughter was an adult, which led to the imposition of a number of house rules that Kelly resented.

Soon after the Ryans moved into Pleasant Green, a number of unusual events started to occur that were later found to be perpetrated by retired Major John Grant. Grant was unhappy with the breakdown of community in the village, brought about by the sort of migration from the city that the Ryans represented. The Ryans were victims of Grant's Operation Pleasant Green on several occasions such as when their burglar alarms were remotely activated a number of nights in a row and then metal tacks were strewn across the driveway disabling Robert's car when he was leaving for work. All of this greatly frustrated Robert.

However. near the end of the Operation Pleasant Green events, one underlying reason for Robert's bad mood was revealed: he was hiding from his wife that he was having an affair. This was revealed when Claire received photographs from an anonymous source (later revealed to be their daughter, Kelly) that showed Robert with his mistress. When confronted with this, Robert admitted to loving neither this other woman nor Claire. The two divorced while their daughter was in prison having been found guilty of the manslaughter of John Grant. According to Kelly, by the time she was released from prison, her mother had quickly remarried to a man who, in her opinion, was just like Robert.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Fragments"
The Whisperer In Darkness

An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest; folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure. One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher?

The duo’s last update patched together frantic updates from Baghdad as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe… But for now, a new investigation calls.

Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe. Once again the podcast embraces Lovecraft’s crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of The Whisperer in Darkness.

## Characters

Kennedy Fisher (Jana Carpenter)

Matthew Heawood (Barnaby Kay)

Eleanor Peck (Nicola Walker)

Albert Wilmarth (Mark Bazeley)

Henry Akeley (David Calder)

Mystery Woman (Nicola Stephenson)

Perry (Robert Glenister)

Parker (Phoebe Fox)

April (Rebekah Staton)

Slide/Reporter/Policeman (Ferdinand Kingsley)

Tania/Maria/Receptionist (Gabrielle Glaister)

Contact (Steven Mackintosh)

Walter Brown/Old man (Karl Johnson)

Ben/Cop (Ben Crowe)

Charlotte Davenport (Phoebe Frances Brown)

Edie Simpson (Childs voice)
Thomas Marston

**Thomas 'Tommy' Marston** (1963 - 2015) was a member of the Marston family, the father of April Marston and, in his earlier years, he was a practising occultist and member of Amelia Fenner's Suffolk Coven.

## Early Years

Thomas Marston was raised in Rendlesham. His family appears to be deeply enrooted in the Suffolk area. His first cousin, once removed, was Mary Marston, who murdered her family at age 9 in 1935. A much earlier ancestor of both Thomas and Mary's was a woman called Faith Mills, who was hanged as a witch in 1645 by Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins in Fressingfield, a village only 20 miles away from Rendlesham.

While still a teenager, Marston appears to have become quite interested in the occult himself and joined the Suffolk Coven, led by Amelia Fenner.

## The Rendlesham Forest Incident

On Christmas Day in 1980, members of the Suffolk Coven attempted the Babalon Working ritual in Rendlesham Forest. Those in attendance were Amelia Fenner, Henry Akeley, Walter Brown, Tania Radcliffe and Thomas Marston. This was only partially successful but got the attention of a local US Air Force base as well as local newspapers and the event ultimately became known as the Rendlesham Forest Incident.

The consequences of the ritual were far-reaching and the vague nature of the event meant members of the coven couldn’t agree on what they had seen or its significance. Marston suffered a complete mental breakdown as a result of his experiences and his parents, perhaps encouraged by Fenner, arranged for the young man to relocate to the United States of America, specifically to Providence, Rhode Island. Marston started to receive professional help for his mental health problems and became a patient of psychiatrist, Dr. Jonathan Willett. While Willett’s professional competence and mental health were not thought to be compromised at the time he was treating Marston, he was nonetheless unsuccessful in helping the man although this wouldn't become apparent until some years later.

## Later Life

Marston returned to England and moved back to Rendlesham. It is known that Marston had one daughter, April Marston. She was born in 1982 so it is likely that this was before Marston moved to America. April was raised by her mother and it is believed that she and her father were never particularly close.

Marston's mental torment as a result of the Rendlesham Forest Incident caught up with him when, in 2015, he ended his life by hanging himself. This would contribute to a tragic pattern around the lives of the coven: along with Marston, both Tania Radcliffe and Walter Brown would also commit suicide in circumstances arguably connected to the ritual.

Marston was laid to rest in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in Rendlesham, Suffolk.

Unfortunately, Marston's daughter, April, continued to pursue her father's interest in the occult and ultimately became an acolyte of Henry Akeley after his possession by Nyarlathotep.

1. ↑ "Bad Memories"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TWiD: "Episode 6"
3. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 4"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 TWiD: "Episode 7"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 TWiD: "Episode 3"
Yemen

Flag of Yemen

**Yemen** is a country on the south coast of the Arabian peninsula in the Middle East.

The author of the *Necronomicon*, the 8th century scholar Abdul Alhazred, was from Sanaa, the capital city of modern-day Yemen.

Around the start of 2023, a commercial airliner flying from Aden (the current capital-in-exile) to Istanbul crashed soon after take off while still in Yemeni airspace. The ex-chief of the Yemeni intelligence services, Nadir Abdulrahman, was killed in the crash and this led both the Themis Group and British intelligence to the conclusion that the crash was caused by Remington Schofield specifically to eliminate Abdulrahman.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 5"
2. ↑ WKAK: "Liberty Flights"
Transcripts

This page lists all **transcripts** of *The Pleasant Green Universe* series. A transcript is a retrospective written record of dialogue, and like a script (a prospective record) may include other scene information such as props or actions. The transcripts are created by the community.

* Standalone
* Mythos
* The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
* The Whisperer in Darkness
* The Shadow over Innsmouth
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
* The Haunter of The Dark

## Note

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Daniel Rawlinson

**Daniel Rawlinson** is a chartered accountant who had a serious car accident involving Alice Boone.

In 2023, Rawlinson was used by Remington Schofield to attempt an assassination of Mrs. Boone. Rawlinson was subjected to Schofield's mind control and, while driving down Piccadilly in London he drove his car into Boone, who was walking along the pavement. She was knocked through the shop window of a department store and suffered only some cuts, bruises but a nasty concussion. Rawlinson was questioned by police but had no recollection of the event at all, nor did he have any prior convictions or known allegiances to any subversive organisation.

1. ↑ WKAK: "Liberty Flights"
2. ↑ WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
Edith Fisher

**Edith Fisher** was a member of the Fisher family who lived in Michigan in the early 20th century. She was Kennedy Fisher's great-grandmother and possibly a sister or cousin to Abigail Fisher who lived in Innsmouth around the same time.

It is likely that Edith is the great-grandmother that Nyarlathotep, possessing Henry Akeley, said he knew and was in possession of her eyes.

1. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Haumea"
3. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 8"
Samantha Martin

**Samantha Martin née Gibson** (d. 2020) was the mother of Theo Martin and a member of the Fisher family and the Gladwin family through her father, Phillip Gibson.

## Early Life

Samantha Gibson was born in the mid-to-late 1980s to Phillip Gibson and Destiny Fenner. While they likely weren't aware of it, Phillip and Destiny were actually half-siblings, both being illegitimate children of Joseph Curwen. This meant that Gibson was actually the product of in-breeding and, unfortunately, this may well have been a leading cause of health problems that she suffered throughout her life.

Gibson's parents divorced in 1991 and both of them went on to remarry. As a result, Gibson had two half-sisters, Laura Gibson, with whom she had regular contact, and Melody Cartwright.

## Later Life

Gibson married Daniel Martin in the early 2000s and, in 2004, they had a son, Theo Martin. Unfortunately, Daniel suffered from drug addiction and, according to Laura Gibson, he was "*a nasty bastard*". Martin became a widow in 2006 when Daniel died of a drug overdose.

Now she was a single mother, Martin's father, Phillip, stepped in and became a close and supportive part of Theo's existence. Unfortunately, Phillip Gibson disappeared in 2010 and this left Martin and her son less supported, although her half-sister, Laura, continued to provide what support she could. Despite this, mother and son would often struggle financially over the coming years.

## Death

Samantha Martin died of COVID-19 during the global pandemic, no doubt her longer-term health problems exasperated by financial pressures meant her immune system was unequal to the task of fighting off the virus. Her son, Theo, was taken in by his Aunt Laura. Theo's heritage as a descendant of Joseph Curwen and his grandfather's interests in the occult had brought about considerable loss in the young boy's life but despite this, he excelled in his A-levels and achieved a place at the University of East Anglia.

Unfortunately, the curse of Theo's heritage would strike again when another branch of the Fisher family, connected to the Church of Starry Wisdom, killed Theo in 2023 in their efforts to recover a notebook his grandfather had received many years earlier.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 THotD: "Episode 2"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 THotD: "Episode 1"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 10"
4. ↑ THotD: "Episode 4"
The Haunter of the Dark Episode 3

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## Synopsis

Back in London, Caroline Morse shares some key family history with Kennedy and familiar names crop up again. Finding Robert Blake's notebook is back on Red Hook's agenda.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Kate Isitt as Caroline Morse
The Haunter of the Dark Episode 6

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## Synopsis

Bad Memories resurface as Kennedy and Byron proceed with caution into the Blake House. Are they getting closer to finding Robert Blake's notebook and the house's secrets? Or simply heading into danger.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Ben Crowe as Marcus Byron
* Anthony Calf as Jonathan Blake (archive audio)
* Steven Mackintosh as Phillip Gibson (archive audio)

## Notes and Trivia

* While *The Lovecraft Investigations* has retconned certain details about the Blake House Incident, this episode draws on audio clips from the original story as told in "Bad Memories".
Robert Olmstead

**Robert Olmstead** was a man who visited Innsmouth, Massachusetts in July 1927.

Olmstead was travelling from Newburyport along the coast when his bus stopped at Innsmouth and he had to spend the night. While only in town for a short period of time, he claimed to have witnessed a number of suspicious activities. He claimed that people, possibly members of a cult, stalked him through the streets in the middle of the night. He also reported seeing 'weird jewellery'. When he later reported this to the police, their initial investigations led them to conclude that Olmstead had stumbled on an alcohol smuggling ring and that the culprits had tried to intimidate Olmstead.

Being still in the time of prohibition, federal authorities raided the town early the following year. This forced Abigail Fisher to flee Innsmouth and this raid also likely led to the closing of the Marsh Refining Company.

## Notes

* This character pays homage to the character of Robert Martin Olmstead, the main protagonist in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TSoI: "Haumea"
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 8"
Philip Levine

**Philip Levine** was the head of the UK's Counter-Terrorist Unit. He was in charge of the response to the Kokomo cyberattack in 2013.

Shortly after the Kokomo virus was unleashed on banking and commercial networks, Levine was briefed by his deputy, Steven Daguero. Not being particularly technically minded, Levine relied on his deputy to explain the nature of the problem but the magnitude of the attack was something Levine quickly understood all too clearly.

At the behest of the cyberterrorist group behind the attack, the Harlequinade, Levine assigned negotiator, Alice Price, to meet with them in the Park Hotel. He and Daguero listened in through a wire that Price was wearing. While weary of Price in light of Daguero's briefing on her, Levine began to appreciate her no-nonsense approach and, throughout the crisis, gave the negotiator considerable flexibility to manage the situation as she saw fit.

As the attack continued, Levine received more and more pressure from Whitehall to act, with his political superiors favouring a tactical assault on the hotel in order to apprehend and interrogate the trio. Listening to their conversations, Levine recognised that they appeared quite mentally unstable and that it was far from likely that they would be any more cooperative in a prison cell or interview room than they were being in their hotel room with Price.

With pressure to send in tactical units increasing, the threat of an imminent assault appeared to encourage Harlequin to release the details of how to shut down the virus. Levine, desperate to stop the cyberattack as soon as possible, overruled the caution of his deputy and ordered the virus to be let onto the CTU's government network so that the supposed 'decryption key' could be input immediately. Unfortunately, this short-sightedness was something the Harlequinade had planned on and their whole contact with CTU was revealed to have been a deception specifically for the purpose of getting Kokomo through the government's protective firewalls. Within a minute of Levine's order, government systems were all crashing and their stored information was all gone.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Kokomo"
Suffolk

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**Suffolk** is a county in the East Anglia region of England. It is on the east coast and neighbours Norfolk to the north and Essex to the south.

## Places in Suffolk

* Capel St. Andrew
* Dunwich
* Fressingfield‏‎
* Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh‏
* Orford
* Orford Ness
* RAF Bawdsey
* RAF Bentwaters
* RAF Woodbridge
* Rendlesham
	+ Church of the Holy Cross
	+ Rendlesham Forest
* Woolpit‏‎
Robert Hawthorne

**Robert Hawthorne** (d. 2017) was the husband of Emma Tillinghast until their divorce in the mid-2000s. He was also the adopted father of Emma's daughter, Lucy, who took his surname.

Hawthorne married Emma Tillinghast in 1992 when Emma's daughter, Lucy, was around two years old. Once they were married, Barbara Sayers, Lucy's nanny, was released from service as her services were no longer needed with Emma having Robert to help raise her daughter. However, by the time Lucy was in her teens, Robert and Emma had divorced. Emma moved abroad but Lucy appears to have stayed with Robert and remained in England. Over the next decade, Hawthorne's health declined as he suffered a couple of heart attacks. In 2017, a third heart attack proved fatal and he died.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCoCDW: "Episode 1"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 TCoCDW: "Episode 5"
Standalones

## Synopsis

These are some stand-alone audio dramas written by Julian Simpson that tie into the Pleasant Green universe as established in *Mythos* and *The Lovecraft Investigations*.

## Cast and Characters

* Fragments
* The Listener
* Bad Memories
* Kokomo
* Fugue State

## Episodes

Main article: Episode Guide
1. Fragments (Transcript)
2. The Listener (Transcript)
3. Bad Memories (Transcript)
4. Kokomo (Transcript)
5. Fugue State (Transcript)
Pablo Picasso

**Pablo Picasso** (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a famous Spanish artist. In 1925, he was photographed outside the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris by Man Ray. Others in the photograph's foreground included were Aleister Crowley, Alice Prin, Nancy Cunard and André Gide, while in the background were Obed Marsh, Edwin Lillibridge and Ernest Gladwin.

## External Links

Pablo Picasso at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo\_Picasso
2. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 7"
3. ↑ K. Fisher, voice memo, Paris 2022.
4. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 4"
Phoebe Fox

### Series

Standalones, Mythos, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Who is Aldrich Kemp?, Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

## External Links

**Phoebe Fox** (born 16 April 1987) is a British actress who played Polly in “Fugue State”; Parker in the *Mythos* stories, “Glamis” and “Albion”, and recurrently in *The Lovecraft Investigations*; Lucy Hawthorne in “Episode 9” of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and the lead role of Clara Page in *Who is Aldrich Kemp?* and *Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?* She is married to Kyle Soller.

## Performances

* “Fugue State” (as Polly)
* *Mythos*
	+ "Glamis" (as Cinderella Parker)
	+ *"*Albion" (as Hermione Parker)
* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- “Episode 9” (as Lucy Hawthorne)
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness (as Parker)
		- “Episode 5”,
		- “Episode 7”
		- “Episode 8”
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- “Saint Germain”
		- “Rubaiyat”
		- “Pleasant Green”
		- “Who is Mary Lairre?"
* *Who is Aldrich Kemp?* (as Clara Page)
	+ All episodes
* *Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?* (as Clara Page)
	+ All episodes
The Haunter of the Dark Episode 8

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## Synopsis

The stress of the investigation is taking a heavy toll on the team. Disharmony grows; an unwise decision is made and key understanding of the situation is challenged.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Ben Crowe as Marcus Byron
* Nicola Walker as Dr. Eleanor Peck
* Catherine Kanter as Victoria Ness and Police Officer
* Kate Isitt as Caroline Morse
* Rufus Wright as Wilberforce Ashton-Heath

## Notes and Trivia

* Caroline Morse refers to Abigail Fisher not wanting to have Ernest Gladwin's children but only acknowledges her mother and her aunt as the children of Abigail and Obed Marsh. So the mention of Ernest's son in Episode 1 indicates that either Obed and Abigail had a further male child together that Morse was ignoring, or that this son was a later product of Abigail and Ernest. Another option is that this is a son of Ernest's by another woman.
RAF Watton

**RAF Watton** is a former Royal Air Force station situated in central Norfolk.

During the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident on the 26th December 1980, the flight chief for RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, a man called Chandler, contacted RAF Watton about whether they had picked up anything similar to what airmen were seeing in Rendlesham Forest.

## External Links

* RAF Watton at Wikipedia

1. ↑ See East Anglia Map
2. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 2"
Zadok Allen

**Zadok Allen** is a resident of Innsmouth, Massachusetts and president of the Innsmouth Historical Society.

While investigating the town and her family's historical connection to it, Kennedy Fisher was directed by Casey to speak to Allen. She eventually found him in the crypt of an old church and was frozen in surprise to meet a man who was identical in appearance to Dr. Allen. Zadok Allen's odd behaviour didn't help to allay Fisher's suspicions and when she started to ask questions about why Allen had been down in the church's crypt, Allen became quite flustered and left in some haste. Upon closer inspection, Fisher discovered that Allen was growing magic mushrooms in various coffins in the crypt. Parker later confirmed Zadok Allen's familial connection to Dr. Allen, and also explained that Allen's mushrooms were growing on the decayed remains of a Victoria serial killer. According to Parker, the side effects of this little experiment were notable.

Fisher tracked Allen down at the Innsmouth Historical Society, a tiny one-room building on the docks that was likely a customs office of some sort. His behaviour on this second encounter was considerably more extreme as a result of having just made use of some of his own product. Allen's attention span was severely curtailed and he had expressed considerable paranoia upon learning Fisher's surname. Her meeting with Allen was almost useless but he was adamant that she had to leave because, being a Fisher, she'd bring 'the Deep Ones' back. Allen repeated this warning when Fisher encountered him while lost in the town because of dense fog, warning the podcaster that it wasn't safe because she had "brought them to land".

## Notes

This character is based on Zadok Allen, a character from the original Lovecraft story, The Shadow over Innsmouth.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TSoI: "Melusine"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Saint Germain"
3. ↑ TSoI: "Apartment 6"
4. ↑ TSoI: "Harlequin"
William Haynes

**Detective Sergeant William Haynes** is a police officer based in East Anglia whose constabulary covers the village of Pleasant Green. In 2007, he was part of the investigation into the death of retired Major John Grant.

## Early Life

Haynes is a local of the area and when he was a child his father would take the family to the village of Pleasant Green to enjoy a Sunday lunch at the Three Horses once a month. His memories of the old traditional pub were fond ones and he expressed some regret that "some muppet had turned it into a gastropub". When asked about whether he would want to live in the village now as an adult, he reckoned his wife would be keen to but he saw it as "snooty, suburban, boring" and "not [his] kinda place".

## Operation Pleasant Green

On September 16th 2007, Haynes and his partner and superior, DI Michael Carter, were called to Pleasant Green after it was reported that a 70-year-old man, John Grant, had been shot. Grant didn't immediately die and was rushed to hospital but almost immediately Carter and Haynes arrested 18-year-old Kelly Ryan for attempted murder. This arrest became for actual murder when Grant died in the hospital later that same day.

At the start of their interview of Ryan, both Carter and Haynes were somewhat aggressive in their style. Both men were frustrated that the young woman was not denying her involvement but not explaining it either, nor was she seeking any legal representation. Haynes admitted to Carter that he found Ryan's smart-mouth attitude quite annoying. While investigating the crime scene, Carter and Haynes discovered the surveillance equipment that Grant had set up as well as his self-recordings in which he admitted responsibility for a nuisance campaign that Pleasant Green had been suffering for the last few months.

Haynes and Carter's investigation led to a successful conviction of Kelly Ryan who served 18 months for manslaughter due to diminished capacity.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Fragments"