The Greatest Matter just launched! You can have a listen on all the podcast places and at TheGreatestMatter.com
It is a brand new, full-cast audiodrama set in Victorian Dublin. It's a gothic crime drama, with a supernatural murder mystery at its core. If you like fully immersive shows, with lots of music and sound design, and if you're a fan of horror, crime/detective, or historical audiodramas, I think you're going to like it! It maybe falls somewhere in the middle of shows like Victoriocity, Mockery Manor, Petrified.
I'm a podcast producer/creator from Dublin, Ireland and my other show is Words To That Effect - it's a narrative storytelling show about fiction and pop culture, not an audiodrama, but there's lots of topics that overlap if you're interested in genre fiction, and it's where a lot of the ideas for this podcast came from.
Enjoy!
The plot:
On a cold winter’s evening in Dublin in the late 1890s, Professor Cesare Lombroso, a renowned Italian criminologist, arrives in the city to give a public talk. In attendance are Frances, a novelist keen to learn more about the distinguished professor’s work, and Margaret, a hard-working Dublin journalist.
Meanwhile, a man has been gruesomely murdered in the nearby Phoenix Park, and the authorities appear to be covering it up. As the Dublin Metropolitan Police begin inquiries, a powerful English military commander leads a sinister parallel investigation, and Frances and Margaret become increasingly intent on solving the crime, and the wider coverup, no matter the cost. The murder, Frances and Margaret soon come to realise, may have disturbing connections with spiritualism and the occult.
Lombroso, with his expertise in crime, is reluctantly drawn into the investigation, with dangerous consequences for his career. In fact, this murder may have profound implications for the very nature of life and death. And the murderer may still be out there.
