Podcasts of the Week: horror, hip-hop and lockdown parenting

Featuring Louder Than a Riot, The Lovecraft Investigations, and On the Marie Curie Couch

Louder than a Riot’s Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden

“Oh, the comfort of stories with a beginning, a middle and an actual, definite end!” said Miranda Sawyer in The Observer. That, and more, is what you get with Julian Simpson’s “genuinely spooky” and totally riveting The Lovecraft Investigations, on BBC Radio 4. The Shadow Over Innsmouth, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella, began last month, and I’m loving it so much I’ve “begged the publicist for more episodes”. Newcomers, though, should kick off with the first two series, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Whisperer in Darkness. The production is exemplary, the storytelling deft, and the acting exquisite. Investigators Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher are “played so brilliantly by Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter that they’ve started to feel like real people”. No spoilers, “but I wouldn’t listen while holding a full paint pot, for instance”.

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