Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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01 | 20170405 | 20220130 (BBC7) 20220131 (BBC7) 20180424 (R4) | Incidents of death from heart failure have spiked at seven times the national average in a small Essex village. Agent Lairre investigates. A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017. A conspiracy theory podcaster goes in search of the East Anglian legend, Black Shuck ~Mythos is a series that looks at British folklore through a quasi-scientific prism. It's laced with sardonic humour, ridiculous situations and insane leaps of logic - but its foundations lie in the stories that have become part of the British cultural DNA over the last 2000 years. | |
02 | Glamis | 20180425 | 20220206 (BBC7) 20220207 (BBC7) 20200518 (R4) | Mary Lairre is the ghost of a 16th century French nun murdered at Borley Rectory and rendered corporeal by the mysterious Department. She's joined by Parker, whose magical abilities rely upon her transforming her entire personality as circumstances require. Lairre and Parker accompany their boss Johnson to Glamis Castle in Scotland, where a secret door has been discovered. The door leads into a folkloric dimension, where monster hunter Libby Ward is tracking a dangerous monster and has kidnapped an innocent American tourist to use as bait. Time bends, dimensions fragment and our heroes realise that the monster Ward is hunting may be a lot closer to home than they thought. Lairre, Parker and Johnson discover a secret door in the secret room of a castle. |
03 LAST | Albion | 20180426 | 20220213 (BBC7) 20220214 (BBC7) 20200519 (R4) | A sinkhole opens up beneath the City of London. Lairre and Parker - fresh from battling Robin Hood and his Merry Men - are tasked by Miranda Hyde to rescue Johnson from the depths of the city. Lairre battles an incorrect cultural consensus of British history while Parker channels Modesty Blaise to become the world's greatest secret agent. Together they find themselves facing Gogmagog the Giant as Britain's past erupts through time to destroy the present. Johnson is in danger when a sinkhole opens up beneath the city of London. |