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Still in the mortuary: Mortem on BBC Sounds

11/2/2020

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When not writing a sitcom set in a mortuary, I've been working on a true crime show set in one too! It's a new podcast from Whistledown for BBC Sounds called Mortem, in which mortician Carla Valentine examines a dead body found in unusual circumstances and interviews forensics experts to discover how and why they died - and how the killers were caught. If you ever wanted to understand the science of blood spatter, or how you can catch a criminal with pollen, this is the show for you. There'll be 3 cases and 9 episodes in all.

I was hired as the script editor for this podcast last year and it's been enormous fun working with producer Deborah Dudgeon and writer Nina Millns to mould these narratives into their final form. Whilst the cases have been reconstructed from numerous real crimes - in order to protect victims and their families, the names and circumstances depicted in this podcast are fictional - the show engages with real science and professionals to describe how cases of this kind are solved. It's got lots of gruesome detail and squishy sounds. It's fab.

You can download Mortem on iTunes, the BBC Sounds app, and wherever you get your podcasts. 

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