THE PARANORMALISTS June 2006
" Britain 's first podcast drama... I love the feeling of this...marvellously anachronistic... a fantastic listen" BBC Radio 5 "Really bloody good..." Guardian Unlimited "Will make those hours of commuting fade into distant memory... Talent has a new means of expression so go check them out." ElectricNews.net
‘The Paranormalists' is a brand new comedy drama series, featuring a team of paranormal investigators facing an unprecedented wave of unexplained activity in the English West Country in the early 1990s. It stars a host of talent from British stage, TV and radio, including the legendary Michael “Bullet Baxter” Cronin as Plutarch Black, Neil Edmond (Radio 4's ‘The Consultants') and Lorraine Cody (‘The Archers').
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Minehead Elvis: The Trial of Clive Tagish
The pilot / Episode 1 of ‘The Paranormalists' has been podcast in four parts on i-tunes to great acclaim. With over 30,000 downloads and just under 1000 new ones each week, fans emailing regularly from as far away as Denver, Colorado and Newcastle, New South Wales and averaging 4.5/5 for listener reviews on both US and UK i-tunes, ‘The Paranormalists' is achieving cult status all over the globe.
Synopsis: Clive Tagish claims to have been abducted by aliens and to have met Elvis. He is suing the Presley estate for defamation of character and calls in Hitchard Screening and the Paranormalists to help. The case raises unpleasant ghosts for Hitch, calls upon all the knowledge and technical wizardry the Fortune siblings can muster and even manages to tear Murray away from the trampolines on Minehead Beach . But what can the mysterious sea dog, Plutarch Black tell us about a missing boatload of mackerel and just how does Clive's mum make those delicious scones?
Bodmin Bigfoot: The Ballad of Brown Willy
Episode 2 of the ‘The Paranormalists' has been recorded and is in post-production. A big launch of this 6-part episode is planned within a few weeks.
Synopsis: The Paranormalists pursue a strange ape-like creature across Bodmin Moor. Is ‘Brown Willy' (named after the highest hill in Cornwall ) an escaped criminal, a failed genetic experiment or the missing link to an ancient race of monsters? Only a discontented scientist, a village of demented Morris Dancers and two missing botanists know the truth.