Chapter 11
Extract from They Do It With Strings podcast
‘The Tin House’: Episode One
Gloria: The candle flickered, did anyone else see that?
Dr Mortimer: This heap of a house is full of draughts. I’ve had the fire on in our room since we got here.
Rendell [loudly]: Are you there? Show yourselves, spirits.
[A creaking noise, heavy breathing, a chair pushed back]
Harold: What’s going on? It’s got cold all of a sudden. Can anyone else feel that?
Rendell: Shhh. Sit back down and put your finger on the glass. The spirits are here.
[Glass rattling audibly]
[Sudden outburst of screaming]
Noah: Someone is coming.
Rona: I can feel something, the glass is vibrating.
Rendell: Keep your fingers on!
Dr Mortimer: Someone’s pushing it.
Rendell: Who is this? Make yourself known.
[Glass scrapes across the wood]
Harold: Oh my God!
Rona: ‘B. E . . .’ I think it’s spelling a name.
Gloria: ‘T. H.’
[The noise of the glass stops abruptly]
Harold: ‘Beth’!
Rendell: Does anyone here know a BETH?
Rona: My cousin. She’s called Beth.
[A small pause]
Gloria: She is, as in, she is still alive?
Rona: Yes. Lives in Barking.
Rendell: Well, obviously, it can’t be her. Do you have a message for us, Beth?
Harold: ‘M. U . . .’ Blimey, the glass is moving so quick, I can’t keep up.
Gloria: ‘R. D . . .’
[Another pause as the glass comes to a halt]
Rona: ‘MURDER’.
[Collective gasp from the group]
[Music swells and fades out]