Features: Grief, Imagination and Murder-On-Sea

Issue 21: September 2023Our theme music is from Lucas Carey, with audio from Epidemic Sound. Cover art by Sian Amber Fletcher. Our first feature comes from Talia Augustidis, called The Sound Collector, from her podcast, UnReality. In this piece, she speaks with her sister, Teia, about the year their mother died when they were both young children, and a truth she learns almost two decades later about that time in 2004. Our second feature comes from Caroline Crampton and the Shedunnit podcast. In this segment, from the episode titled ‘Murder-on-sea,’ Caroline speaks to historian Dr Kathryn Ferry, and academic and author Dr Allan Brodie about the rise of the British Seaside Resort and how the phenomenon came to influence many murder mystery novels including those from Agatha Christie, John Bude, Freeman Wills Crofts, Henry Wade and more.This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. If you’re a producer based in Europe and have an idea for an URSA story, we’d love to hear from you! We’re always accepting new pitches.Support for this podcast comes from our Patreon - if you like URSA and all the incredible stories that come with it - then please consider supporting us at patreon.com/ursapodcast. The price you’d spend on a coffee would go to supporting us and our contributors each month.